Has anyone thought of this.. question re: forfeited telephone numbers and email accounts

[barnacler]

So I was changing my SPEAKOUT over to CHATR, and I considered just using my new CHATR number and giving up my old Speakout number.

But then it occurred to me: could someone eventually REQUEST to get my old cell number, and then THEY would be receiving any texts from the old phone number , at least from people that didn't know my new number?

And the same thing goes for a dead email account: couldn't someone register that email after it was deleted, and then get any emails sent to that account from the previous owner's contacts that he didn't inform about the change?

I sent an email a few years ago to an old email account that I had deleted, it was a hotmail account, and I did NOT get a bounce back automatic reply saying that it was an invalid email account!

 

[xix]

Stories have been told here before about this over the ages.
Especially when the old number was own by a SW.

As for email I have received it from dead people asking for money, which that x-employees of Bell stole the email after the account was closed from relatives of the passing person.

I like your signature quote.

 

[GeeBee]

In my experience a request for a specific number would be denied by a legitimate mobile provider, unless it somehow randomly came up as an option, which would be hugely against the odds.

I still get a few random texts on my pooning # meant for the last guy who had the number. No idea who he was other than that his name was Dan, and apparently he was quite an asshole.