Bronwyn Harris
There's someone who has an instagram handle one character off from mine and apparently put my email (similar to the IG handle) as their recovery email. For about a year, I've gotten at least 1-2 "here's how to reset your IG password" email per week
The first couple times, I reset my password. I'm not resetting my password twice a week for the rest of my life.
Is this someone who is just super optimistic that THIS time the password reset will send to her or is this some kind of scam?
Phil in SF
@Bronwyn could be both or either.
Bronwyn Harris
@kingrat well, since I'm not willing to change my password twice a week, I guess I just hope it's nothing terrible.
Phil in SF
@Bronwyn definitely don't change your password when the reset email isn't one you requested
Bronwyn Harris
@kingrat I didn’t do it through the link or anything. I did it later
Phil in SF
@Bronwyn I pretty much ignore password reset emails completely, unless I specifically requested them. I don't change my password in response to them, even later. Getting those emails when I didn't request them means that someone *hasn't* gotten into my account. (I have 20 character random passwords managed by a password manager though.)
The one thing I do if I get a spate of reset emails, I verify that I can get into my account. If I can't then I was actually hacked. But changing my password in response doesn't make my account more secure.
Bronwyn Harris
@kingrat makes sense.
And I rarely do anything from links in email because I'm paranoid
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