somebody uses my email for their banking and subscription.

all his banking transactions and bills come to my mailbox.

this has been going on for many years.

this guy has the same name as me. i checked his profile in linkedin. i even tried to call him but no response.

could it be gmail problem? or this guy is just too lazy to put email address when signing up for anything?

for you to register or subscribe to amything with email or phone , you need to confirm that those account belongs to you.

Verification email or sms code would be sent to verify.

Question to you is how they manage to confirm verification of your account?

- Compromised phone?
- Sim jacked?
- Compromised email account?

If you're a victim of Identity theft, better make police report and go to banks to verify whether anything has been tagged under your name. Better check CCRIS CTOS also..

go to bank and complain to deregister the email.
how the guy got your email in the first place is a question.
if lucky, he just register. if unlucky, he got access also

this make sense also.

how can he register bank account email without verification?

probably he just register the email, but choose SMS for verification instead ?


the mailbox address is my first and last name. its a very simple address and i got it because i registered it since 2007.

i think mailbox is safe coz i changed password few times before.

technically, need authentication via link sent to email etc to register.

so, story doesnt make sense unless he got the email access.... or bank fuckup big time

Click forgot password, website will send code to your email to verify.
Then u can set new password and login to see his stuff.

I have similar issue whereby my email is in the format of alpha.beta@gmail.com where alpha is my name and beta is my surname, however I did receive email which was address to alphabeta@gmail.com ie the address without the dot in the middle.

someone's utility bills also comes to my registered mailbox, the person just a town beside in USJ .. I just dont care and reverted to SPAM box, happening every month since years, I just dont care because the SPAM box cleared every month

read properly .. its TS own mailbox, not the opposite person

Aduh. Kena lukis baru u paham ke?

If the bank keep sending him other ppl stuff, u go to that bank and try login, click forget password, then then bank will ask u email address to verify, will send u the verification code. U use the verification code to reset the password.
Then u can login with the new password to that other person account.

are you sure can reset online banking password via email address?

tanya je ..

which bank are you using? normally online banking use mobile number(that is register to the account) and some otp for reset password. some bank totally disable it and you need call customer support to do it..

Where got email subscription need to verify?

kawan... when you register something... and key in email,

you need to proof that email is yours... so they will send you a link to your email or a code to your email address...

you enter that code or click on that link to proof it's your the owner...

TS dont forget to change your email password, try use MFA

If Gmail, do you have “.” between your address? It is likely because of this where someone registered similar address with or without the “.”

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1031...n-of-my-address

I have a feeling the bank was doing some data migration and cleansing.
Then somehow tour email got matched with another guy same name.

Another reason might be email validation was skipped during profile update processes

This post has been edited by yushin: Apr 4 2025, 07:37 PM

my email have dot in the middle.

since many years ago i know dot or no dot the address is still mine and will be sent to me.

the guy not only have bank but astro bills also came to me.

If you check the recipient of the email, was it to your email with . or was it to another slightly different variation of your email (. in a different location or no . completely)?

I’ve faced similar with someone using a non . variant of my email address and I’ve been getting Lazada invoice for purchases the other person made 😅

I think wrongly added.

I too received such emails. All because of Gmail.

For example.

My email is ABC.123@gmail.com

But that idiot used ABC123@gmail.com instead.

According to Gmail, ABC123@gmail.com is same as ABC.123@gmail.com too.

all the to: adress is with dot. exactly same as mine.

Then that’s a mystery

ABC123@gmail.com should be yours. nobody else can register it as theirs.

Yes, I've done that before when someone uses my email address. Manage to take over his Facebook and Instagram. But for banking definitely cannot, need to verify mobile number.
That idiot even uses my email to register Apple ID, but luckily Apple quite strict otherwise I would have reset and locked his iPhone.
Call Astro using the info in the bill, request to subscribe the most expensive package or request termination.

Then looks like not the bank's fault.

haha great idea. i will try this.

If you managed to locked his iphone, that's the best thing you've done to teach him, his world will be upside down 😅

All the tv package that available via astro, lucky day for astro 🤣🔥

Hahaha, I end up calling Apple to disassociate my email with the Apple ID. Took them less than a day to remove my email.

I also got someone in UK using my email (Vodafone & shopping receipts) .
Has been going on for many years.
I just mark them as JUNK.

I'm glad you already did that and apple already work on it
🍎🔥

I wonder how they managed to use someone emails, why dont they create it, it's free and easy to register and setup 🤔

issue resolved.

according to the bank this guy is using ymail.com. but clerk thought its gmail.com

Which bank is this? Sotong? Tiger?

Ikan bilis.

1st must make a non-action report with Police station. Clearly declare this is non related to you. Then report to app platform with police report.

This is what I suspected.

I’m experiencing the same issue. It seems that an older gentleman, who happens to have the same name as me, mistakenly assumed the email account was his. As a result, all of his transaction details are being sent to my inbox.

UOB and Public Bank don’t verify whether the bank account actually belongs to the person. They simply accept whatever information is provided to them without proper validation.