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Conroy Bumpas
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basicly. there a person who thinks my email account that i have had for 10 years is theres.
most likly whats happend, mine is hotmail.com and his is the same but at hotmail.co.uk
he keeps trying to reset the password. and he has been giving the emal out for signing up to things and to his friend. so 100's of kids are trying to add me on msn and live.
i also had microsoft phone me about a faulty xbox. witch is his not mine.
i googles my email. and its all over myspace and beebo on profiles that arnt mine
so basicly he seems to think i have hacked his email. when it was mine all along
any advice or sagestions what to do?
most likly whats happend, mine is hotmail.com and his is the same but at hotmail.co.uk
he keeps trying to reset the password. and he has been giving the emal out for signing up to things and to his friend. so 100's of kids are trying to add me on msn and live.
i also had microsoft phone me about a faulty xbox. witch is his not mine.
i googles my email. and its all over myspace and beebo on profiles that arnt mine
so basicly he seems to think i have hacked his email. when it was mine all along
any advice or sagestions what to do?
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- Find a site that has the same name, but a different domain, and different content, to show him that things can be different?
Once you've illustrated the differences, you should be able to get him to remove the offending email addresses?
Well, if you know the person's screen name on myspace and such, I guess you could email those individual sites and say "this person has put my email address on their profile, please remove it" and see if that gets you anywhere.
It's a bit worrying that Microsoft called you about an xbox, based off his email? How did they get your number?
Sounds like this person is too retarded to realise the difference between .co.uk and .com.....
Have you contacted hotmail admins direct and told them what's going on? I guess there's nothing they can do, if this person is uncontactable. Maybe try and add them as a friend on bebo or whatnot, and send them a message on that? (post on facebook wall or something? I dunno)
The kid made his Live profile on his 360, added the contact details, which included his phone number and the wrong email address...
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Which again begs the question, how did Microsoft phone YOU?
but the kid had mannaged to change my adress with microsoft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so i have change it back.
but i do now have the kids adress and phone number.
so should i try phoneing the kid. and ill be polite and put on my best phone voice
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
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i have had 5 faulty xbox 360s myself , and when you phone them and give them you name and email adress the brought up my details
politly i confermed who he, was and that microsoft where contacting me about his faulty xbox.and that he had given them my email.
i said i had had XXXXXX@hotmail.com for around 10 years
he said that my email adress. i said his must be very simaler but not that adress. ie .co.uk or somthing
then he said my adress is www.xxxxxx@hotmail.com
i asked him to contact micrsoft and give them his correct details as they would be sending me his xbox (that seeed to worry the kid)
I dont think there's much more you can do than what you're doing, just politely call back and point out that he keeps resetting your email address. Ask him to try and log in to hotmail with the .co.uk address and his password.
Once that works, maybe he'll see the distinction?
that really could come back and bight me in the ass.
thou shalt not steal (even from fools)
going to the parents is probably the way to go and it will either end up with him stopping or you convincing his parents to make him stop.
Normally I wouldn't support feigning homosexuality for malicious intent, but in this case...
Likewise, but for a stupid teen that should pound home the message right-quick.
If it really comes down to it, you could inform them someone has been trying to steal your identity through your email account.
This is obviously the "nuclear fucking weapons" choice, however.
What I did was kept emailing their webmaster explaining the situation.
For now though all you can do is ignore the password reset emails, since I guess MS doesn't ask a question before the remind is set, since anybody can request a password reset.
I wish someone would change my address with Microsoft.
That only works if both the victim and hacker are in the same jurisdiction. The FBI can't do dick to a kid in the UK. Mind you people have been extradited to the US for cyber crimes committed in the UK before so who knows, but I doubt it would happen for a disputed email adress.
So yeah if you have the phone number try to speak to the parents and say that their kid is making repeated attempts at getting access to your email.
No, but they could certainly make their lives miserable from a US standpoint.
Not that I'd expect or want that to happen. Just saying its possible.
Um... odds of the kid ever even finding out that "his life in the US would be miserable" is extremely extremely low as most people (as in almost everyone who isn't an American) very rarely (or never) goes there, especially not as a 15 year old kid who can't even understand the difference between .com and .co.uk. Plus, you know, the FBI would probably just laugh at you and tell you to go away if you ever tried this.
Anyway - my vote goes to call the kid back, tell him you keep getting e-mails asking you to change your password everytime he tries, and that you would appreciate it if he stops - then ask to speak to his parents.
As I said try the parents but frankly I don't expect anything to come from it. Chances are the reason the kids such a stupid brat is because the parents are crap at parenting.
Just put up with it for now and eventually his limited attention span and patience will give out and he'll make a new email.
Before you call try and think of some ways for the kid to figure out his actual e-mail adress. That would be the best way of getting him to stop resetting yours. Would Microsoft have his real e-mail on file and he could call them?
Change email address? Surely in terms of hassle levels, that has to be the lesser of two evils? You can get mail forwarded or whatever. He will never be able to use your email as long as the account is secure! So let him be frustrated for the rest of his imbecilic life and move on.
I'm with this idea. You can associate your live account with a new email address at least, which will protect your live account (and thus, xbox details) from being taken over, even if the kid does manage to take the email as well.
I suggest thinking a really unique username if you create a new e-mail account.
I would recommend switching to gmail for no other reason than it's better than hotmail.