[lobstersammich]

My email address is [e-mail] and I get dozens of these account signups per year. You'd be surprised at the mobile phone companies, banks, and other accounts which do not require you to verify that an email account is yours before you are able to use that email address for your mobile phone, banking, tax returns, health insurance accounts.

And it's not just limited to not-tech-savvy Americans either: I get Canadians, Australians, Brits, etc. all using my email address as if it were their own. One added 'benefit' from this is that by receiving all of these emails for other FName LName people who mistakenly use my email address it muddies the data that Google sells to Facebook. Having made a Facebook account many years ago that has been dormant for over a decade I was surprised to see upon logging into the Facebook account that "my purchases" at [American chain store] were being used to make recommendations on Facebook. I've never purchased anything that [American chain store] in my life, but I do receive DOZENS of e-receipts for a person in South Carolina who has electronic receipts sent to my email address for $1,000 home goods items. Additionally, the ads that Facebook shows me also conveys that their ad system thinks that I'm a healthcare worker in Australia because I received an Australian healthcare worker's test results / certification to practice as a healthcare worker at my [e-mail] email address.