Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:49 pm
I noticed that one idea about why this has happened hasn't been suggested and that people are being to quick to assume that there is a sinister motive behind why this has happened instead of a simple clerical mistake.
If the "victim" (if they are really a victim) knows the person who has access to the account it may be because their names appeared next to each other on a membership list or some other clerical mistake was made when signing people up for a LUWS account.
Let's not forget that there was no confirmation of identity under the old LUWS login when you signed up and someone would have no idea that they signed up using the wrong membership number if they were in the same ward at that time. This is avoided now because a person is asked to confirm that they are JANE DOE who was born on 01 Jan 1960.
I just helped a member of my ward whose brother was accidentally signed up with his information. All the information on the account was his brothers but his membership number was the one being used. We know that his brother did not intend for it to happen so we simply took the LDS Account back but if you are worried you should follow up to make sure that the other member doesn't continue to use the membership record number but I strongly suspect that this was a simple mistake as was the case with two brothers of my ward (one who no longer lives in this ward). Since they are also brothers there isn't any reason why one would have used the others information except that they had appeared next to each other on a membership list or a clerk wrote down the wrong record number and confirmation when he gave it to the member.
I don't see any valid reason for someone to deliberately sign up under another person's membership record number and since you aren't getting any response from this other person it's entirely possible that the person who used that email no longer uses that email account and has no idea that it is happening. This would especially be the case for young people who frequently change email addresses or older people who no longer have a computer.
Let's not be quick to assume that this was a deliberate act because if it was it would be stupid to use an email address with your real name when you are taking someone else's account. You would use their information and create a fake email address.
If the "victim" (if they are really a victim) knows the person who has access to the account it may be because their names appeared next to each other on a membership list or some other clerical mistake was made when signing people up for a LUWS account.
Let's not forget that there was no confirmation of identity under the old LUWS login when you signed up and someone would have no idea that they signed up using the wrong membership number if they were in the same ward at that time. This is avoided now because a person is asked to confirm that they are JANE DOE who was born on 01 Jan 1960.
I just helped a member of my ward whose brother was accidentally signed up with his information. All the information on the account was his brothers but his membership number was the one being used. We know that his brother did not intend for it to happen so we simply took the LDS Account back but if you are worried you should follow up to make sure that the other member doesn't continue to use the membership record number but I strongly suspect that this was a simple mistake as was the case with two brothers of my ward (one who no longer lives in this ward). Since they are also brothers there isn't any reason why one would have used the others information except that they had appeared next to each other on a membership list or a clerk wrote down the wrong record number and confirmation when he gave it to the member.
I don't see any valid reason for someone to deliberately sign up under another person's membership record number and since you aren't getting any response from this other person it's entirely possible that the person who used that email no longer uses that email account and has no idea that it is happening. This would especially be the case for young people who frequently change email addresses or older people who no longer have a computer.
Let's not be quick to assume that this was a deliberate act because if it was it would be stupid to use an email address with your real name when you are taking someone else's account. You would use their information and create a fake email address.