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[โ€“] GiveOver@feddit.uk 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Somebody signed up for an Apple account with my email address, apparently before they required email confirmation. There's no way for me to remedy this, so I'm apparently just supposed to deal with somebody else using my email for an Apple ID. Their support treated me like an idiot for an annoyingly long amount of time.

Support: "Sir I can't give you access to somebody else's account. Do you understand that?"

Me: "I don't want access, I just want to use my own email. That's my email address on that account"

Support: "If that's your email address, then that's your account sir"

Me: "No it's not my account"

Support: "Then what's your problem?"

Apple are the only company this has happened with (people commonly use my email address for things, but there's always a way to reclaim it)

[โ€“] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

If you have access to the email can't you just do a password reset and hijack their Apple account?

[โ€“] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you are in Europe, you can try to do a GDPR request to nuke the old account.

[โ€“] GiveOver@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Yes partially, but for some actions you need to answer security questions

[โ€“] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

Apple's customer service is by far some of the worst I've ever experienced.