Account created without my knowledge.

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  dailytabsaddon · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 9:14 pm

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  Gmail, GitHub, and Mozilla (Addons) are the only companies I gave a certain email address to.

  Within days, I get:

  Help Improve WordPress.com!
  WordPress.com <(email visible only to moderators and staff)>

  Oct 22 (6 days ago)

  Howdy!

  We noticed that you haven’t published a blog post yet at your new WordPress.com site. We’re always looking to make WordPress.com better and we would love it if you helped us improve things by answering a couple quick questions.

  You can take our survey at:
  http://improve.wordpress.com/newdashplus1

  Thanks for your help,
  Michael

  I never signed up for a WordPress.com account. I never knowingly checked a box or left a box checked indicating I would like an account created. Why was an account created?

  More importantly, how can I get WordPress.com to delete it? Considering their normal policy is to tell you to remove yourself from mailing and then let it go inactive, how do I get them to remove a fraudulant account?

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  dailytabsaddon · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 9:15 pm

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  FYI: The redacted email address was user-experience [@] wordpress.com.

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  dailytabsaddon · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 9:56 pm

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  GitHub > Gravatar > WordPress.

  Then, for some reason, even though when I login to WordPress.com it says “create blog”, I get a survey asking why I haven’t posted… Posted where? To my not-yet-created blog?

  What about me getting a gravatar account indicates I want to create a blog, let along make a post?

  The “algorithm” used to collect the recipients for that emailing was screwed up. Please fix your stuff and don’t send out stupid, irrelevant mailings.