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This happens to me all the time, as have my lastname @gmail.com, and my name is not as unique as I thought. I typically contact the real person via some other
by drewg123 5y ago
This happens to me all the time, as have my lastname @gmail.com, and my name is not as unique as I thought. I typically contact the real person via some other information leaked in the email.
I once had a lady accuse me of cyber-stalking her, since I texted her when I started getting her Verizon internet information (bills, shipping info for equipment, etc). I finally managed to explain to her that she'd given them the wrong email.
- jschwartzi 5y agoMy wife worked selling cell phones for a while. Apparently there are a huge number of older people who don’t understand that just because they put the email on the form that doesn’t mean they own the email address.
- sen 5y agoIt's not just old people, many people who aren't techies think that entering an email address into a Telco form means they're ASKING for that email address. I get multiple emails per day for all sorts of services from all over the world because I was an early Gmail user with a short account name. Most are people signing up to new phone/internet/etc services and they have my name as their first or last name.
- meowster 5y agoSame thing happens to me. When I get "verify your email" messages, I delete them. If I still get emails after that, I mark them as spam.