Identity theft and sponsors.
 

So back in the day when you were using free hosting and didn't have a server and you used that email account from some.com and signed up for a sponsor and didn't do that good and moved on but figured you might use that sponsor again until finally you forgot about them....

Well some.com was sold several times and you lost that email but no problem since you have your own domains now for email. The new owner of some.com has catch-all email so that old sponsor you forgot about decided to drum up some old business by emailing all affiliates, even in-active ones so the owner of some.dom got the email with your log-in information and decided to log in and clicked on "edit info" and got your full name and social security number and stole your identity.

But it probably would not have happened if the sponsor only sent that information when you requested it on the "forgot password" link or if they didn't show your social security number in the admin as if you would have forgotten what it was since you joined. Or if there was a button in the admin area that you could click when you are thru with that sponsor that said "delete account".

Of course if you had used reliable email then it wouldn't have happened unless you went broke and lost your domains or forgot to renew a domain or it got hi-jacked from Godaddy or yahoo sold to yehaa which went belly up and closed all email and then sold to some dude in Nigeria.

I cringe every time I get an email from a sponsor promoting their new thingy and included my login information as a "convenince".

If I haven't logged into your program for a long time please consider that I have a reason for that besides losing the login.

You could just cancle/unregister your account? Or use a hotmail/gmail account? atleast you will always have the email.

Open a company and use TIN don't give out your social, if TIN number gets stolen it sucks, but your personal SS# is even worth

Who are you talking about exactly?

That is the best answer. :thumbsup

It is a bit stupid that many programs put your password in every email they send.

Intratubalizationary Obtusiveness.

I would never give out my social security number to a program. This industry is rife with thieves and you are just asking for trouble. Incorporate and give them a TIN.

12 million people last year in the US were identity theft victims.