# How did someone sign up for Facebook using my email?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-someone-sign-up-for-facebook-using-my-email/619636>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 22, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-someone-sign-up-for-facebook-using-my-email/619636 "2012-04-22T22:14:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-someone-sign-up-for-facebook-using-my-email/619636/1 "2012-04-22T22:14:58Z")

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…and should I worry?

I started getting emails to a tertiary email account that were Facebook updates in Indonesian to an account I have nothing to do with. I verified that emails themselves were not spam. I recovered the password and I think removed my email info from the account.

Questions: Can someone register an account without access to the email? There was I think I primary email registered, and my email was secondary, but the “send to” address. What other steps should I take to fix this?

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**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-someone-sign-up-for-facebook-using-my-email/619636/2 "2012-04-23T02:24:41Z")

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Change your password to something more difficult and don’t tell anyone.

My first guess is that someone has access to that e-mail account, because you do have to go through a confirmation link when you sign up for Facebook. Someone could sign up, go to the e-mail and verify the account through the link and that’s that.

Next you should just delete the Facebook account all together, not just remove your e-mail information. Delete, not deactivate. We have a thread around here somewhere in GQ regarding how to do that, nevermind a quick Googling will find the same info too.

Was there no verification e-mail in your account? I’m suspecting someone could have just used your e-mail and that the verification e-mail doesn’t actually do anything. I’ve signed up for a site or two where I could freely enjoy the site without actually going through the verification e-mail.

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**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-someone-sign-up-for-facebook-using-my-email/619636/3 "2012-04-23T05:50:44Z")

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I seem to remember that you can do things on Facebook before you confirm the account. The first thing to do is follow Covered\_In\_Bees advice. Then you could create a Facebook account and play around with it to satisfy your curiosity.

(Slightly off-topic - twitter seems fully usable without confirming the account. I have a twitter account for an email address I made up on the spot that probably doesn’t even exist.)