# Merge accounts

**URL:** https://community.citystrides.com/t/merge-accounts/23746
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 27, 2021, 11:14am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/merge-accounts/23746 "2021-08-27T11:14:39Z")
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### Author: ![wachunga](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/wachunga/32/1549_2.png) [@wachunga](https://community.citystrides.com/u/wachunga)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/merge-accounts/23746/7 "2021-10-08T01:08:49Z")

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@JamesChevalier I think this is a broader issue. It seems like many people have multiple accounts but don’t realize it, presumably from connecting via both Garmin and Strava.

For example:

- [Private Striders](https://community.citystrides.com/t/private-striders/23050)
- [I'm being chased by a ghost (of myself, I think)](https://community.citystrides.com/t/im-being-chased-by-a-ghost-of-myself-i-think/23486)
- [Ghost-Striders?](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ghost-striders/23039)
- [Ability to message a private strider](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ability-to-message-a-private-strider/23730)

One impact is that leaderboards are incorrect. For example, both 9th and 10th place for Vancouver are occupied by the same person (I’m 99% sure - I run often with him):

> **[Vancouver, British Columbia - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/cities/37612)**
>
> CityStrides helps you run every single street of your city

Can citystrides warn people that this has happened or help prevent it in the future?

I guess it cannot be cleaned up automatically, but would be good for the users to understand what happened at least, and ideally clean up some of these private strider doppelgangers.

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