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On the flip side, people literally go through these kinds of expedited transaction processes and use my email address, so I get receipts, requests to create acc

On the flip side, people literally go through these kinds of expedited transaction processes and use my email address, so I get receipts, requests to create accounts, "review the product" emails, etc. Please validate emails OR let me click on a "that wasn't me" link. If not, I will flag your email, and company, as spam.

RockRobotRock 4y ago
Why do people use your email address?
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- Ensorceled 4y ago
  There are more than 1600 people with my first and last name in North America and the UK and I have first.last@gmail.com. So, when the give a fake email… it’s mine.
alias_neo 4y ago
I went into a sofa store in the UK a few years ago and gave them some details like my email address for a potential purchase which they input into a tablet. Some time later, I started receiving emails about my sofa purchase, addressed nice and personally to "Paul" (not my name) and then some time after that, emails about my "finance agreement". It was all legit, except for the fact that none of it was intended for me. Someone had been in to the store after me, and somehow they'd entered my email address on this guys form, he's never had any of his documents about his finance agreement, or when his sofa was going to be delivered, etc, because I had it all. Hope the guy got his sofa in the end, but company made it almost impossible for me to tell them they were sending all this stuff to the wrong email, in the end I just blocked them.
suprjami 4y ago
I am aware of 4 other people who share my name, one of them has an email address one character off from mine. I've followed their life from their employment offer, maternity leave plans, childbirth hospital trip, baby photos, pet purchases, school registration, and recently their child is registered in a gifted student program. I'm almost part of the family!
- genewitch 4y ago
  at that point (and probably about 10 years ago) i'd have made a different email address on a domain name i own. gmail, for instance, shows off how awful google is if you stop relying on it but open it fairly often. I don't think i've received any non-automated emails on my gmail account in over a year, but now all of the tabs are chock full of junk, aliexpress, spam, aliexpress, scams, aliexpress... I lucked out on fastmail grandfathering me in to the $5/yr plan that allows you a single MX domain endpoint, so i have any-email-i-want@mydom.ain for around $20/year including taxes, DNS, and domain registration.
pugworthy 4y ago
Is that you Foo? See https://www.bar.com/ https://www.bar.com/ for reference.

RockRobotRock 4y ago

Why do people use your email address?

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Ensorceled 4y ago
There are more than 1600 people with my first and last name in North America and the UK and I have first.last@gmail.com. So, when the give a fake email… it’s mine.

alias_neo 4y ago

I went into a sofa store in the UK a few years ago and gave them some details like my email address for a potential purchase which they input into a tablet. Some time later, I started receiving emails about my sofa purchase, addressed nice and personally to "Paul" (not my name) and then some time after that, emails about my "finance agreement". It was all legit, except for the fact that none of it was intended for me. Someone had been in to the store after me, and somehow they'd entered my email address on this guys form, he's never had any of his documents about his finance agreement, or when his sofa was going to be delivered, etc, because I had it all. Hope the guy got his sofa in the end, but company made it almost impossible for me to tell them they were sending all this stuff to the wrong email, in the end I just blocked them.

suprjami 4y ago

I am aware of 4 other people who share my name, one of them has an email address one character off from mine. I've followed their life from their employment offer, maternity leave plans, childbirth hospital trip, baby photos, pet purchases, school registration, and recently their child is registered in a gifted student program. I'm almost part of the family!

genewitch 4y ago
at that point (and probably about 10 years ago) i'd have made a different email address on a domain name i own. gmail, for instance, shows off how awful google is if you stop relying on it but open it fairly often. I don't think i've received any non-automated emails on my gmail account in over a year, but now all of the tabs are chock full of junk, aliexpress, spam, aliexpress, scams, aliexpress... I lucked out on fastmail grandfathering me in to the $5/yr plan that allows you a single MX domain endpoint, so i have any-email-i-want@mydom.ain for around $20/year including taxes, DNS, and domain registration.

pugworthy 4y ago

Is that you Foo? See https://www.bar.com/ https://www.bar.com/ for reference.