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I once got an email about the funeral arrangements for somebody's mother. I know this person very well, because he uses my email address for everything. I know
by wcoenen 1y ago
I once got an email about the funeral arrangements for somebody's mother. I know this person very well, because he uses my email address for everything. I know what internet subscription he has. I know where he bought his e-bike. Where he goes on holiday. Etc.
And he's actually not the only person doing this! As far as I can tell, the only unusual thing about my Gmail is that it's relatively short and has no numbers. I suspect people just forget to add the digits at the end of their own address.
- streetnoodles 1y agoI get a lot of random email for other people with the same first initial/last name as me. I had one specific person using my email for a lot of things. I just canceled her membership in a bowling league, and when the league reached out to ask why, I told them I have no idea who <her name> is. I stopped getting email meant for her after that.
- kstrauser 1y agoUgh, I could've written this. I have my HN username at one of the old webmail providers. I log in there about once a year to keep the account live (because said provider re-issues unused accounts after a while). Each time, I see another person's info. My name isn't freakishly unusual, but neither is it John Smith. I've used my personal experience in a design meeting where some newer PMs were IMO unreasonably sure that users wouldn't mistype their own email address. Oh, let me tell ya, they absolutely 100% do.
- thesuitonym 1y agoI have the opposite of this. My primary email address is hello@firstnameMIlastname.com. But there's another guy who has the same name, and doesn't include his middle initial in his domain. It doesn't appear that uses hello@, so maybe he doesn't get my mail, but there have been many times where someone insists they've sent me something, only for me to find out they didn't include my middle initial and were sending stuff to him, despite the fact that I sent them my email correctly. Why didn't they just copy and paste?
- DavidSJ 1y agoI once got an email about the funeral arrangements for somebody's mother. I know this person very well, because he uses my email address for everything. I know what internet subscription he has. I know where he bought his e-bike. Where he goes on holiday. Etc. I was expecting this person to be you.
- stephen_g 1y agoI have a similar thing, [firstname][number]@gmail.com and I get all sorts of crap. It's honestly mind-boggling how much. It really makes you appreciate proper email address validation - all sorts of services let people sign up, don't validate and there's no good way to have your email address removed from their account...