HT201355: Change your Apple ID password

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reneepann
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Q: Someone I don't know is using my email address as their Apple ID to sign and purchase apps ect and I keep getting notifications in my emails. How do I stop them from using my email address????????

Someone I don't know is using my email address as their Apple ID to sign and purchase apps ect and I keep getting notifications in my emails. How do I stop them from using my email address????????

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), iOS 6.1.4, recently swiped

Posted on Nov 19, 2013 3:30 PM

by ckuan,Solvedanswer
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A:

Just change your Apple ID's password so even if they use the same e-mail address it won't be charging you for their purchases.

https://appleid.apple.com

Posted on Nov 19, 2013 4:10 PM

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  • by Johnathan Burger,

    Johnathan Burger Johnathan Burger Nov 19, 2013 3:48 PM in response to reneepann
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    Nov 19, 2013 3:48 PM in response to reneepann

    You can't and you don't.

  • by ckuan,Solvedanswer

    ckuan ckuan Nov 19, 2013 4:10 PM in response to reneepann
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    Nov 19, 2013 4:10 PM in response to reneepann

    Just change your Apple ID's password so even if they use the same e-mail address it won't be charging you for their purchases.

    https://appleid.apple.com

  • by reneepann,

    reneepann reneepann Nov 19, 2013 4:40 PM in response to Johnathan Burger
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    Nov 19, 2013 4:40 PM in response to Johnathan Burger

    Wow, great help   

  • by UG64,

    UG64 UG64 Nov 19, 2013 5:29 PM in response to reneepann
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    Nov 19, 2013 5:29 PM in response to reneepann

    If a person is using your email address, you should change your email password and make sure there aren't any forwards to some strange email address.

     

    An example if you were using gmail, under account settings, a forward can be set up to send messages to another email address.

     

    If your email address is say, you own domain, such as somename@somename dot com, make sure the forwards are forwards you set up.

     

    If your email account was hacked and the bad guy has access, you need to cut him off, first by changing the password and second cut off any message forwarding to the bad guy if he set it up.  Just changing the password would keep a bad guy out, but if the bad guy set up a forward, he will still get your email.

     

    A confirmation from Apple would have come to your email address in order to confirm that Apple ID.  If you are getting the other person's purchase notifications, you would have gotten a confirmation of that account from Apple.