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I have a firstlast@gmail address, and I occasionally get e-mails intended for people with the same name. Recently, a person with the same first and last name t

I have a firstlast@gmail address, and I occasionally get e-mails intended for people with the same name. Recently, a person with the same first and last name thought he owned my e-mail address. He signed up for several job searching e-mails from companies that did not verify e-mail address (which I promptly marked as spam). That person finally signed up for a FedEx.com account, and I was able to reset the password to access and get his phone number. I called him up to inform him of his error, and it sounded like the man was in his late 60s and thought I was an "IBM-er". A week after that, he stopped signing up for new services with my e-mail address. I can only guess a friend or family member told him how e-mail works. Side note: FedEx.com should know better than not forcing users to verify their e-mail addresses at sign up.

Fuzzwah 13y ago
Today I just paid $1.06 to facebook to finally allow me to send a message to someone that didn't get filtered into their "other" inbox. I did this because I'm sick to death of receiving their email. We share a name. I created the account first.last@gmail.com, he created the account firstlast@gmail.com. At some time in the past google decided that they would just ignore dots in email addresses. Luckily during the merge I got to keep the email address. So now first.last and firstlast come to me. My doppelganger uses the email address for their apple id. I can reset their password, but I don't get the password sent to me (as it sends the new pass to the recovery email address).
r00fus 13y ago
Innovative way of getting the number from fedex.com - but wouldn't that be construed as intrusion in some jurisdictions? Sillier things have put similar minded hackers into the prison-industrial grinder.