I'm fully aware that this message may be in the wrong place, and am not really sure where I should post it, but can anybody answer the following question, as it has been bugging me for ages.
- Upon signing up for an email address, nobody else can utilize the same address.
- Emails are then sent to your email account, by notifying people/websites etc of you emails address.
- Upon you account expiring or you deleting your account e.g hotmail.com, your email address is again made available for somebody else to signup to.
My questions is this: Upon your account expiring or you closing your account, and the new user signing up to use your email address, whats stopping the forums/people etc from sending emails to that email address, thinking it was you, when indeed it now belongs to somebody else? Isn't this a security risk?
Please put my mind at rest, resulting in me sleeping easy tonight!!!!