I want to delete anything associated with my e-mail address.

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  ozone1965 · Member · Aug 7, 2014 at 5:46 am

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  All Iwanted to do was answer an article on Pro Football Talk, but the next thing I knew I had accounts with worldpress and blogs etc. I just want to delete my email address from all of this nonsense and pretend it never happened, but I keep reading that you can’t fully “delete” accounts.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 7, 2014 at 10:59 am

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  You are right, you can’t delete your WordPress.com account. This is for security reasons so others cannot claim your username and impersonate you. See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

  However, the only information you needed to give to sign up was your email address and WordPress does not send out spam or sell that address to third parties. See: http://automattic.com/privacy/

  If you really want to sever all connections, the best option is to create a throwaway email address with a free webmail client like Gmail or Yahoo or similar. Change the email for WordPress to that one (http://en.support.wordpress.com/email-address/) and change your password to something very secure. See Timethief’s instructions in this thread for more information on this: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-account-276?replies=2

  If you created a blog you don’t want, see here for instructions to delete it: http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/