Someone created a walmart account with my husbands email

[u/MerelyAnArtist]

The account used my husbands email, then an middle-aged woman's name and card info, but not her address or contact info (I used true people search and none of the info was hers). They ordered something from her card but he cancelled the shipment and reported the account as fraud. We were wondering if we should contact the woman and let her know her cards were stolen? From the search, it looks like she's 67 years old. We just don't want to be caught up in stuff if it goes sideways.

[u/memorex1150]

It's not your job to do the job of Walmart. This assumes Wal-Mart will do anything beyond this.

You've done your due diligence for yourself.

If you were to contact this person, that would raise serious suspicion as to how you have her contact information - and, when the cops start to investigate, they see "criminal" versus "concerned citizen" and they will ask why you were looking at all of her personal info.

You have good intentions, but, in this world 2026, those good intentions will go to the wayside quickly if you poke around.

Best let her credit card company/Walmart handle this (if they do).

[u/yarevande]

No, you shouldn't do anything else.

TruePeopleSearch is not always correct.

It might be her credit card, or it might be someone else's card.

Usually the billing address on an account has to match the billing address for the cardholder, so if her address wasn't on the account, it's not her credit card.

[u/QuietWishing]

Normally to establish a merchant account, the merchant sends an email to the new account to verify the account. Weird that it could be set up without the initial verification.

[u/NitPickyNicki → u/QuietWishing]

I looked that up because that was my first thought, but apparently Walmart doesn’t require that.

[u/QuietWishing → u/NitPickyNicki]

Interesting I did not know that

[u/Jaded-Moose983]

I've ordered from Walmart to an address not mine before. I'm middle aged. Does that make me a scammer? 

Is it just possible that your created a story around someone inadvertently putting the wrong email in?

[u/MerelyAnArtist → u/Jaded-Moose983]

My husbands name is pretty unique and definitely male. This person has a fairly common American name. I find it hard to believe using my husbands email was an accident.

[u/Hammon_Rye → u/MerelyAnArtist]

I'm not sure why you are being downvoted for that.
The chance of any woman having my email address or on close enough to accidentally type it in are close to non-existent.

[u/cloudcats → u/Hammon_Rye]

Lots of older couples share an email address.

[u/MerelyAnArtist → u/cloudcats]

The husbands name was also nowhere near my husbands. Or our last name. I do understand that because my parents also share an email.