So I got an email from Pinterest the other day saying that one of my pins had broken their legal policy but that after review they reinstated it and if I had any further issues like this legal would get involved.
The problem with this though is that I don't HAVE a Pinterest account.
The email was legit and sent to my proper email account and a small tiny little part of me thought that maybe? I had made a pinterest account a long long time ago and forgotten about it so I went to log in.
Of course I get to the sign in page and choose "forgot password" and so the change password thing comes to my email and I change the password and log in and yeah that's not me. I go to the profile and it's very much not me but it has *my* email in there. (It was just maybe a meme or two and three selfies of a teen looking person and from who knows when - I didn't look too carefully into thing,s but it wasn't a particularly full or in use profile IMO.)
So, I deleted the entire account. Not sorry about it either because I have no idea how someone created this account with MY email or if I did used to have an account ages ago and someone took it over, but either way, yeah no. Not happening.
So I deleted and confirmed the deletion and then sent a ticket to their help system saying that someone had used my email and there is no account tied to that email and that I had deleted the account. Not sure if I'll hear back from them but yeah that was a weird thing.
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