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Oh god yes. I have a 6 character pronouncable gmail address as my main email address. Some highlights: * Several people from (I think) Mexico City have sent me
by brazzy 6y ago
Oh god yes. I have a 6 character pronouncable gmail address as my main email address. Some highlights:
* Several people from (I think) Mexico City have sent me requests in Spanish asking for medical prescriptions, including photos of their current medication.
* I started receiving receipts for an Italian parking fee app. After I contacted their support about the problem, I received an email addressed to their user asking them to confirm the email address.
* Someone signed up for Comcast DSL and there was no way to opt out of those emails, support didn't react and logging into the account would have required additional information not in the emails. I finally made a complaint to the FTC under the CAN SPAM act - that got their attention and they managed to fix the issue.
* Someone signed up for some rewards program and proceeded to collect points by signing up for about 10 different newsletters.
- croon 6y agoI have my 6 letter surname at gmail as well, and I've had this issue for decades. Everything from wedding invitations to banking to schools etc. I have answered some helpfully if I had the time, but mostly ignored them and put them in a folder as "mail for others". One in particular, some kid in Arizona who shares my last name has signed up for everything from golf to Epic Games. I found him on facebook and friended (since we shared our last name) and politely asked him if he could try to not use my email for things. He told me it was his, called me a creep and blocked me. It's kind of hilarious how many people insist the email I (or Google I suppose) own is also theirs, despite the technical impossibility of that scenario. The same has happened with my phone number.
- mywacaday 6y agoPlease tell me you shut down a few of his "accounts"
- jdhawk 6y agoI also have my username with gmail, and have had everyone from college professors, pastors, and restaurant equipment salesmen claim it as their own. It really is mind boggling.
- ValentineC 6y agoFun fact: Facebook logs people in if they click on a link in their transactional emails. Don't forward your transactional Facebook emails to other people. There's also no feature to verify or disavow email addresses. I wonder if they change this policy now that more people know about it.