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This answer is not actually correct. I have an account I deleted 18 years ago, still can’t make it again.
Could in theory be because someone else grabbed the account 16 years ago tho, unless I'm missing something?
There's a lawyer in Philadelphia named Justin Bieber. I'm not sure which would be worse.
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I have a relatively rare name — I’ve actually never met anyone with my last name, never mind someone with my full name — and this happens to me regularly. Last week I got a job rejection from New Zealand post, for a while I was getting someone’s pay stub notifications from the US, etc. I suspect it’s because I was the first to register the first.last@gmail.com address for my name. I guess it’s a bit like owning a sim…
Yea I own first.last@gmail.com for my name too and I get emails for who I think is the same person fairly often. Like job stuff, professional education emails, etc. I used to reply to them saying wrong person but have given up...the guy must not care about not getting these emails... My first name is very uncommon and my last name is very common.
This is why we should replace names with uuids.
I suspect when they are old enough to change their names, they will. For example, Wavy Gravy's son changed his name back to a normal family name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavy_Gravy#Personal_life
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The key term in most statutes is dishonesty. Impersonating someone at their behest as a favour is unlikely to be dishonest.
Impersonation is inherently dishonest