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> Nowadays the closest I've gotten to this is the people who keep using my Gmail address as their own email address. I find this behavior rather bizarre and don
by hx2a 4y ago
> Nowadays the closest I've gotten to this is the people who keep using my Gmail address as their own email address. I find this behavior rather bizarre and don't know what it achieves.
I have this problem also! I thought it was rare. In my case I think the person is very bad with computers and doesn't know what their email address is. I've gotten emails from their bank, cell phone, and even online dating. I tried mailing them a letter once to tell them they are making a mistake but nothing changed.
- TheNewsIsHere 4y agoI have the same problem. Mostly for an old MobileMe/iCloud alias, but also for an entire domain that I own. Someone keeps signing up for Instagram accounts in another language. My every day email is my name@myname.com, and I’ve had to purchase several typo domains and alias them.
- FrenchDevRemote 4y agocould this be credential stuffing attempts? or just typos?
- bombcar 4y agousually it is someone who has their email john.r.smith or similar and forgets they need the r There are other stories of people forgetting which company it was with (gmail vs yahoo) and even of google accidentally giving out emails with a period and then silently removing periods.
- joe_g_young 4y agoThe Gmail domain will deliver email to an email address regardless of periods in the username. My email address is first name period middle initial period last name. I can a period between any letter, all letters or none and I can still receive it.
- fortran77 4y agomy gmail is my <lastname>@gmail.com It's not a super-common lastname, but there are probably several hundred people with it in the US. I get all sorts of email for people whose address is some variant of it, like <firstname.lastname>@gmail.com. I've gotten plane tickets, paypal payments, cancer diagnoses, Bar Mitzvah and Wedding invitations, college transcripts, all sorts of personal information. In many cases, I don't think it's the fault of the person with the email; I think they give their email as "firstname.lastname@gmail.com" and some clerk just uses "lastname@gmail.com"
- wrycoder 4y agoMy Gmail is firstname.lastname@gmail and I get mail to that account that’s not for me. Must be the other party has a middle initial they are leaving out.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoI would be careful with the "." in your username as someone else with `firstnamelastname@gmail.com` would likely get your email. I get the emails that are my ID with the "." in between.
- wrycoder 4y agoI thought that gmail ignored the period, and would not allow registering one of those accounts if the other one already existed.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoWell then, they didn't or it is relaxed now. I'm at the receiving end.
- em-bee 4y agomore likely some people just don't know how to write their own email address. or typos.
- dkjaudyeqooe 4y agoI had some person's client email me regularly for years, which I ignored. One day I decided to take action and sent a expletive filled email to them telling them that I was not the person they thought I was and to stop emailing me. They then sent me an email telling me I was fired.
- vorpalhex 4y agoQuick, tell them where you want your last paycheck sent...
- dkjaudyeqooe 4y agoThey sent me a list of all the system passwords at one point. I should have put myself on the payroll.
- tinus_hn 4y agoI’ve gotten invitations for a GP system, among countless signups for games as well as an account approval for a car. I’ve gotten a hold of one person who was ordering curtains with my email address, they were nice, I got hold of another person who was repairing their phone and they got angry. It’s really quite annoying, and half of the services aren’t even confirming the address, they just put whatever you fill in on the account and start sending ‘informational’ spam.