Why do I have accounts that I never made?
Just a moment ago I shut down an account for a website I don't ever remember even going to in the first place, it's called Qoo10, a shopping website mostly restricted to Asia (I live in the United States.)
Another similar thing happened to me less than a month ago. I had to close an account on a shopping website called Fab, although I never recall using it before. I even had an app on my iPhone for the website, although I definitely did not download it myself.
The only reason I noticed these two websites is because they spammed my email inbox with several messages a day, which started to annoy me. Reading the fine print of the email they said if I wanted to stop the news letters then I have to go to the websites and log in. I did so with password reset services, and terminated my accounts.
My question is, how does this keep happening? It's not as if I register for websites in my sleep.