Pure frustration: What happens when someone uses your email address to sign up for PayPal, car hire, doctors, security systems and more

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Many companies have no mechanism to deal with a common problem: when users open accounts using someone else's email address, either by accident or design. "I have had a barrage of account creation requests that will fail ... also a large number of invoices, warranty emails and so on for purchases, from furniture to electronics," a reader informed us....