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Calin Baenen
Calin Baenen

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Help

A website (that's not well documented) has taken my details (a password, and my email).

I've literally looked ALL OVER settings, and there is no delete account option. And, only after I signed up had I realized that is was a tad bit suspicious.

Its main language seems to be Russian, but is poorly translated to English (which may be excusable).
But I don't want them to have my account. I tried asking support, and tried asking the "community chat", which seems more like a bunch of bots (they just ignore me, and talk about random off topic shit).
And I don't want them to have my info, or the validation of my account anymore. Whenever I tried to address the issue with some alt accounts I made with a throwaway email address, I got banned multiple times, just recently, when (what/whom)ever was banning me realized it was no use, I was just ignored.

Any advice.

Thanks!
Cheers!

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Alex Janke

Welp, if you used the same or a similar password on different sites - time to change them. Also make sure your email password is actually strong. Having access to your email would let them reset any password they do not know and completely lock you out.. Just them having your email-address won't do reaaally that much except maybe some annoying spam.

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Calin Baenen

How do I know what I need to reset my password(s) for?