Well, failure to notify is, at worst, a venial sin rather than a mortal one. If you don't tell her, she won't get "Important Service Updates." Ho-hum.

I don't think you have to work very hard to fulfill this obligation -- just post a comment on her site that her e-mail address is typed in wrong, and that she should fix it. You need not explicitly state the address to which her e-mail is currently going, and you needn't try to contact her by other means. Neither are you required to "donate" an e-mail address to her.

If you're not using that e-mail address, I'd shut it down. If MySpace has a policy of shutting down sites that have invalid e-mail addresses, then you may want to wait a reasonable time after posting your comment, so that she has an opportunity to correct the problem.

Yours,
the ethicist

What you can do is post a blog entry on myspace. It's got one built in and say that her posted email address is going to your email and to ask to have it changed. That would be the nice thing. If she doesn't do that, then delete it.

If you delete the account, the worst that will happen is that she'll create a new one, perhaps with the right email address. You can go to account settings and then at the top there is a cancel account.

Since she put in the email address wrong, she probably doesn't realize it and is not getting into her account. If she did it on purpose, well, she is harassing you inadvertently and clogging up your email. So it's really more of an inconvenience to you since you don't know her and don't have any other easy way of getting in touch with her. Don't spend too much time on it. You've got other things to do.

Reminds me of an incident about a decade ago back when I was living in that condo in Tewksbury. Some wholesaler kept calling my phone number thinking they were calling a customer. They were trying to settle an unpaid bill.

At first I ignored the calls but after 5 or 6 I figured I'd let them know they had a wrong number. Instead of saying "Thanks for letting us know" the person who answered started threatening me so I just hung up.

Well, they kept calling and it's hard to convey to exact tone of their messages but by the end when I had their number blocked I was pretty sure they knew I wasn't their customer but thought they could get some money out of me anyway if they threatened to break my arms enough times.

That made me a bit leary of jumping in and being a good samaritan for strangers. I still try to do the right thing but you have to watch your own back at times.

If I were you I'd just set the email address in the account to postmaster@myspace.com and forget the whole thing.

Oh bleh.. come on isn't anyone else just a little curious? Ok so you have two angels on one shoulder but I am going to be the little devil on the other.. muaaahahaha As a myspace user I can tell you there isn't anything she won't recieve from them.. expect of course those password confirmations. The only question that comes to my mind is how did she originally confirm her account? She would have had to of logged into your email and done that to have ever been able to log into myspace. But thats neither here nor there. I figure its a low level hack, as long as you don't start spamming her out, changing her site, or anything that could be harmful to her in the long run. God who wouldn't love to be a fly on the wall in someone else's myspace back office rofl. And I know I said you should change anything but the truly twisted side of me would keep changing one thing around just to see if she would catch on and maybe register a new space. (was thinking like her age lol) *little devil nudges you and winks*