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I don’t think you can stop it. I have to imagine that this woman doesn’t have an email address and just gives out what she thought was a fake one, since so many
by nkrisc 5y ago
I don’t think you can stop it. I have to imagine that this woman doesn’t have an email address and just gives out what she thought was a fake one, since so many things require it. Otherwise, how could she not notice she never receives anything?
- rwmj 5y agoSomeone signed up for an Amex card using my wife's gmail address. This was years ago, and she still gets the Amex emails regularly (like, between daily and weekly). It's incredible both that the Amex customer doesn't notice, and also that Amex has absolutely no method whatsoever for a non-customer to contact them and fix the problem.
- sys_64738 5y agoSomebody signed up with PayPal using my gmail but I can’t reclaim it without providing sign up info. It works the reverse too.
- throw0101a 5y ago> Otherwise, how could she not notice she never receives anything? She may be getting it at f.lastname@gmail.com. I signed up for Gmail the first or second day it came out with first.last@gmail.com, but hardly ever log(ged) in over the years. A little while ago I did go into it and noticed getting a bunch of message to firstlast@gmail.com. Now Gmail allows for 'customized' addresses in that you can drop a period anywhere and it will still go to your address. But this raised the risk of one person signing up with first.last and another person signing up with firstlast. Supposedly this is prevented, but I think that they did not catch this situation in the early days of the service, and so a bunch of OG accounts have cross-contamination.
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- GekkePrutser 5y agoYeah that dot thing is weird with gmail. Could very well be the reason. Good luck reaching a human to fix it though!