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Wtf!
0. My name is not Den
1. I never registered an account at Wallmart
2. I don't live in the USA
3. How the fuck did my e-mail end up in their DB

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  • 4
    What's your email? ;P
  • 6
    @BadFox nice try :D
  • 6
    Chat with their support
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  • 3
    @D3add3d always worth a shot. Also, seems like a nice guy.
  • 2
    Sometimes that i dont feel like entering my email i enter a random adress so another guy will receive my activation email :/
  • 15
    We deleted your account .. but we will send you survey!

    “We will collect your info again, and this time more correctly when you fill the survey” 🙂
  • 4
    @FahadAlt damn, beat me to the punch 😂
  • 2
    @R1100 well... you can't just randomly enter my e-mail, it's not a name.surname or something like that, it's a combination of letters and numbers and the numbers are inbetween the letters so the chance to enter it at random is next to none

    Edit: that's why I chose it in the first place - so I can be sure I won't end up with something like name1678
  • 4
    @D3add3d i am one step ahead of you. I use a password as my email adress and instead of a password I simply use my name
  • 4
    You were kind of a dick to the customer support person.
  • 2
    Can you check the header of the email?
    I got an email from cpanel( the outbound address). But the actual server it was sent from was from China
  • 1
    @BeardedVillain the pastebin I sent to that support person is the raw e-mail data, I checked the headers, it was sent by them and Google was able to verify the keys otherwise it would have put it into the spam folder or filtered it completely
  • 2
    @AL1L there is a piece of communication I forgot to screenshot - there is a form that you have to fill out before you get to this chat where I described to them that I believe someone used my e-mail to register an account or there is a problem with their database as I was sent an e-mail adressed to some Den. I tried to be as polite as one can be when they have better things to do than to investigate why their e-mail address is in the database of a US company that did not ask them if it's ok. And I just wanted them to remove my e-mail address from their database so I told them that I'm citizen of the EU which in fact does grant me every right to request such action. If what I wrote came out as rude then I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention to be rude, I even provided them with the raw version of the e-mail and a screenshot to help their developers fix it. (that person apparently had no clue what was written in the pastebin so I just moved on)
  • 1
    @Brosyl the part I was mentioning was when @D3add3d said that his name was not Anony and something about how the form didn't need to know your name and when you said "i don't care if it has orders"
    It's true they don't need to know your name, but it helps the representative keep it personal, and for most people that's helpful.
  • 1
    Also, if you don't want random people having your email, read the ToS privacy policy for every website you give your email to and don't give your email to sketchy places. It's not very likely that they randomly guessed your email or obtained it illegally
    Edit: by they I mean Walmart, whoever signed up with your email could have illegally gotten your email
  • 0
    I'm probably a bit late to this, but for future issues I can say that it's not needed to post the whole email. On the mail server, the MTA such as Postfix keeps track of the incoming and outgoing email addresses along with some other stuff in /var/log/mail.log, and the emails themselves are usually kept too. On my mailing systems I store them in /var/vmail, others may place it elsewhere. But they should be present on the server with all their headers, timestamps etc. So yeah. You can reasonably request deletion of all emails to your email address and have the sysadmins take care of it.
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