Yeah I've got a 6 digit semi-common name Gmail account (from the invite-only days) and the amount of junk I get to it is mind blowing. Not "spam", that gets fil

Yeah I've got a 6 digit semi-common name Gmail account (from the invite-only days) and the amount of junk I get to it is mind blowing. Not "spam", that gets filtered pretty well by Google these days, but emails specifically sent to me but not for "me" personally like TFA talks about. 100+ emails a week in my primary inbox that are from people signing up to random stuff in my name, basically any/every service you can imagine where I don't already have my own account (large social networks and sites in countries other than me own, online shopping sites, etc). The other interesting thing is I seem to get a LOT of email for addresses that "almost" match mine, as though Gmail is doing fuzzy-search for addresses? Eg lets say my email is "david@gmail.com", I get dozens of emails a week for "david.17@gmail.com" and "davidab@gmail.com" and stuff like that. I can't explain this one, and everyone I bring it up with says it shouldn't be possible. It's gotten to the point where I've created a more normal fullname@gmail.com and then do some filters/forwarding on the old one for the more important emails, then just check the old one every couple weeks to see if I missed anything, because it's just not usable anymore with notifications on.