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Yeah I do get other people's email, but it seems to be more the sender's mistake than gmail's. My email is samuel.le@gmail.com, and people seemed to have been w
by S4M 10y ago
Yeah I do get other people's email, but it seems to be more the sender's mistake than gmail's. My email is samuel.le@gmail.com, and people seemed to have been wanting to reach Samuelle <something> (Samuelle is a first name), Samuel Le <Something>, Samuel <something> Lee, etc. So far I've received an email from a sales person in a bank in Hong Kong offering me to buy some commodities derivatives, a non profit organization that takes care of mentally handicapped persons, a mover in the US, someone else flight ticket confirmation, some stuff written in Hebrew by a Rabbi, and many more...
When the mail seems legit I reply to the sender explaining they sent it to the wrong person, and often they apologize. It happens roughly every month/two months so it's not a major annoyance and so far I haven't received anything super confidential or personal.
- patatino 10y ago"Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address [1]" Your email adress is samuelle@gmail.com and not samuel.le@gmail.com [1] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en
- S4M 10y agoYes, the dot is completely optional, and I think it's one reason I got emails for other people. Senders wants to email to samuelle.something@gmail.com, somehow mistake it to samuelle@gmail.com and I end up being the recipient.