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I have this problem a lot as well. There was someone with my name with a Bank of America account that regularly bounced checks, and BoA provided no way to disassociate my email address from the account.

These days I'll flag any email from a service as spam, no matter how well known, if there was no email verification step.

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Yup. I had some guy's credit card bills appearing. It was actually super weird - somehow Google had metadata about the credit card bill that was not in the body of the email, so I'd get "reminders" on Google Now saying "pay $1200 to Notyourbank by the 1st of Octember", but I couldn't actually see that bill without logging in (which, obviously, I could not and did not try to).

Btw that meta data I believe it's in the body of the email. Hidden with some html tags that Google tells companies to use so they can do those things. Inspect the source of the html of the body and see if you can find it there.

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