[Taniwha]

Oh I wish that were true, I've been receiving email for years for someone who signed up to facebook with my email address. It's a horrible pain, you can't contact facebook without a facebook account, and I can't create one because someone already has one with my email address.

[Aaargh20318]

Do a password recovery, log in and simply delete the account.

I had to do this once when someone signed up to FB with my email address. It actually was an eye opening experience as to how much data FB collects from everyone.

Now keep in mind that: 1) I don't have a FB account myself 2) This person signed up with my email address (which is <something-generic>@gmail.com), but their name is completely different from mine 3) They didn't even speak the same language, when I logged in to the new account the whole thing was in Swedish or something like it.

So nothing at all linking the account to me, except a misspelled e-mail address. When I logged in, FB was happy to suggest I friend a whole bunch of people I know IRL. Including people that do not know the e-mail address used. Absolutely crazy. How were they able to link me to these people when I was signed in to a complete stranger's account?

[Taniwha]

Well I sort of did, didn't want to delete the guy's stuff, so I made a dummy gmail account, switched it to that and deleted the gmail account after weeks of spam emails and trying to contact facebook I figured he could do some of the hard work to get his account back.

Of course it backfired, after he stopped using his account facebook and a couple of weeks facebook started sending begging emails to my email account again (don't believe them when they say they delete anything), I still get the occasional "what you've missed on FB" emails and about once a year the guy tries to recover his account and I get an email, I'd drop him a note, but the only email address I have for him is mine

[InsomniacL]

Recover the account if you own the email address?

[Taniwha]

(see my reply above)