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Post by used to be TallyHo on Jun 23, 2008 18:43:02 GMT
I've just had to post on a thread as a guest cos' It seems my username has been used by someone else, not that I posted very much in the past. I'm now worried about security, on my account PC or is it just a case of a site error.
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2008 21:50:03 GMT
I've just had to post on a thread as a guest cos' It seems my username has been used by someone else, not that I posted very much in the past. I'm now worried about security, on my account PC or is it just a case of a site error. If the user name is already yours then no one else can use it.
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Post by used to be TallyHo on Jun 27, 2008 11:52:44 GMT
I don't understand whats happened then?? I've tried login in and tried to retrieve the password, but I get an error message saying no account registered with this email address. If you look at posts made by TallyHo you will see a few posts I made about vets bills, and then someone else has used the same username to make further posts, i.e one adversting a car for sale. Not to worry, I've re-registered with a new username now, just wondered how this could have happened.
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Post by candd on Jul 2, 2008 19:50:23 GMT
The same actually happened to me, I choose a username entered my email address and password and it accepted it but then I noticed that someone had posted way back in March under the same user name as a guest and their posts were now under mine. I deleted and joined again using another user name.
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Post by sebrof on Jul 2, 2008 20:54:25 GMT
how can this happen if you come across someone Else's user name it does not allow you on!
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Post by Milliesmum on Jul 2, 2008 20:57:50 GMT
I think what happens is, when a member with a number of posts then deletes their account. If you happen to choose the same username, unknowingly, it lets you register and then links the old posts back to your username.
Must be a proboards thing, not sure that anything can be done about it.
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