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foxglacier 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How to lose a fortune with one bad click

It wasn't really a bug. Long before I had any Apple devices, some stranger used my email address as their recovery address. I clicked "OK" for fun. Then I got an iPhone and realized my main email address was blacklisted because it "belonged" to somebody else.

1123581321 6 months ago [–]

Ah, I’ve heard of that blacklisting, and that it’s impossible to get reversed once it happens and that they refuse to discuss it. That stinks.

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