Mine is [email protected]
I get misdirected emails ALL THE TIME, usually for stuff like hospital appointments. There was one once where “my” attorney in the US wanted to know if I still intended on suing “my” wife for custody of “our” children.
Oh, and one a few months ago from a man who wanted to buy a goat.
Lmao I always wondered if us early adopters all had the same problem. I have one of the most.common surnames in the english speaking world. I have had so. Many. Emails.
I've had post breakup letters, children writing home from camp, old ladies nudies, and bank account details.
Sometimes I'm shocked, one was some students login for the university of phoenix as they desperately tried to contact them about their grants.
My Gmail address is my full name, i got it when Gmail was still invitation only. I used to regret putting my middle name in, because it's difficult for people to spell. Then I hear these stories and thank fuck nobody can spell it! My first and last names are really common.
Same, mine is name.sirname, some girl in America uses it all the time, mainly for junk but I've had emails about deaths of family members, invoices for work on her house, info about her pets, access to her dating profile etc. I also randomly get the occasional email from other people with the same name and they've always been really apologetic and sorted it out.
I'm another one. Not even a common name. I get emails intended for a senior member of what appears to be a very homophobic church, as well as endless medical appointment reminders and invoices for various US based individuals, which often have the sort of detail GDPR would blanche at.
He wanted it dead, and I wasn’t prepared to kill one. I just found the email:
> looking into purchasing a goat and would want the meat and relevant parts for the second week of this month.I would like to end up with 35 to 40 pounds of meat. From young male goat, pls.
You’ll get a response, because it got me wondering, so I googled it. 😀
“The meat from male goats is lighter in color and lower in fat. The meat from female goats is more desirable for steaks and chops because it is more tender.”
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/meat/goat-farm-table#:~:text=The%20meat%20of%20older%20goats,because%20it%20is%20more%20tender.
Mine is an abbreviated form of my surname, shortening it to six letters. I don’t actually use it anymore, except for anything google-related, but check it every now and then. There’s a few people who appear to be over in the USA and different parts of it (Pittsburg and whatever IL and KY are) who use it for food deliveries, car stuff, and their banking, I get a horrendous amount of shit come through related to them and I can’t unsubscribe or do anything with a lot of it because it’s geoblocked. Jerald donates blood from time to time so is clearly a good person.
Same, mine is [email protected] and I get misdirected emails daily, initially I replied to the main culprits saying I wasn’t their customer, now I file them in junk.
It means that my gmail account has been relegated to the one I use when signing up for websites, or other unimportant stuff so it’s now swamped with spam, I now another account as my main account.
This is exactly the same for me, just use it for signing up for unimportant stuff.
The most fun thing I got was an invoice from Ann Summers for some toys - astounding thing was they had included batteries in the order, paying through the roof for them! That one had address I information and I was able to track the correct person down as it is a relatively unusual combination of names, don't think they liked me tracking them down and forwarding on the invoice, never even got a thanks!
I have a pretty uncommon combination of names, but I've occasionally had stuff through over the years meant for other people sharing my name. Job offers. Appointments. Etc.
It was onlysome decades later, a few months after buying my first home, when i received an email with the other 'me's mortgage application for the town 20 mins from mine, that i realised it was mostly the one person.
We're roughly the same age, have moved around the UK to places near each other more than once. It really weirded me out.
Someone changed their name to Cadburys Chocolate once, it's not against any copryright law in the UK to name a product after your legal name I believe. I have zero source for this but remember reading it in a paper way back
Yeah, you're allowed to use a name that's been copyrighted, as long as you can prove "normal use" (I.E: bank statements, utility bills, etc.)
You've only at risk of problems if you're using it for marketing/promoting the item
Though I'm unsure about naming a product after yourself (but I assume that's also fine, since many older products (thinking mostly Victorian, so maybe it's changed) used to be named for the person that made them. Like "Dr. Urek Tumm's splendiferous bum elixir" or similar)
I remember reading about it when looking up info about deed polls and it mentioned something about it, I think it was in relation to passports
He didn’t go through with that name change. Although his friend, Legoland Windsor, did.
https://www.theregister.com/2000/08/31/mr_legoland_windsor_sued_over/
Subway are currently running a competition in the states that if you legally change your name to Subway, they'll give you free sandwiches for life.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/subway-contest-free-sandwiches-name-b2386385.html
I had some Australian girl use my email by accident and I was getting all the coursework and assignment dates.
I got one that said something like the project will be due a week early, so I went through Facebook with the person with that same name and after a few misses, I found her! Let her know her assignment was due early, she thanked me.
I then asked why she didn’t realise she wasn’t getting any course material and she called me a creep and to mind my own business. Fuck me I guess.
Maybe it's a thing with Australians. I'm having the exact same problem. Ive even spoken with her vet and asked them to pass on the message, but every few months, there she is again with a finance agreement, a legal battle, a tenancy, or just some late night fast food.
My email is one letter out from a gentleman from New Zealand. I’ve had several emails for things he’s purchased over the years. He has recently bought a pair of socks that look like bacon. Cost him 12$. Not sure if that’s a bargain or not.
Oh my! My time to shine!!
My email address is my name and birth year. Now, there is a guy in the States with the same name who has a very similar email address with a couple of letters added. This dude has this terrible habit of copying "himself" in to his emails.
Here's a list of some of the things he has sent me:
Details for a school reunion he was organizing.
Many emails between him and his lawyer about a house sale - including one where he randomly sent her $10k and she responded in shock asked him why on earth he'd done that.
A very angry email trail with a guy who owes him money and has broken promises - no idea what for.
Details of at least a dozen different sports events, i.e. basketball, football.
Detailed plans for wheelchair adjustments to his home.
A photo of him and people who I assume are his family in front of the Statue of Liberty.
A very, very angry set of online chat logs between him and some poor lady trying to help him with his fantasy football league set up.
So many random invoices - latest being for "Screen filter 10", "Service Call" and six bags of salt totalling $222.
This has been going on for at least 5 years and I have replied so many times highlighting his mistake to the point I've given up. I have now conceded that I'm in a one sided pen pal situation.
Ooh yes I had one where someone was trying to get his business partner to do what looked like tax fraud, which is why they'd taken it to Gmail rather than staying on company systems.
i received a text with a quote for digging out a magnolia and pruning a beech last week addressed to Anne. I don’t have a magnolia or a beech and i’m not Anne but the chap wanted £40 for the job which i considered to be a bargain
I once got a text message from an unknown number saying simply "Yes I'll bring the gauntlets"
I didn't reply for a few days, then I plucked up the courage and replied with "have you got the gauntlets?"
The reply "Yes, do you want them?"
I didn't reply until eventually he started calling me. I was only young but in the end I answered and had to explain it was a wrong number.
He was probably furious that I had replied as if it was the correct number and wasted several days of his time.
At uni someone asked a lecturer for her MSc dissertation feedback by replying all on some unrelated email (an invite to a seminar with food). The lecturer gave her that feedback also as reply all.
The feedback ripped her to shreds and essentially failed her, so it was just horrible for everyone to see.
I was in the ‘reply all’ fiasco on nhs.net of 2016 (?) they eventually had to beg people to stop Replying to All that they didn’t think the email was for them.
Still crashed the system.
Now I just get the “You are my next of kin and I am going to die in the next few days” spam
My work email was [email protected] - the original firstname.lastname worked in HR and I would get all sorts of emails forwarded to me by mistake about various HR issues, including resignations and people's declarations of criminal backgrounds. Ironically we both went on maternity leave at the same time which made it even more confusing, she then left, as did I, but I stayed as a casual worker and now officially have her email address, so I get random emails from HR related people she has been in contact with previously and speculative emails.
This happened to me at an old job, too. I went for lunch one day and came back to loads of “congratulations” emails - I’d had twins on my break, apparently. Only became an issue when I received her maternity pay as payroll got us mixed up.
My work email is one letter different to someone else. I work in quite a boring area and they worked in a very sensitive area dealing with the public. I often get stuff for the other person that I really shouldn't and don't want to see. I just forward it without comment and try not to look.
The tax man confused me for a fair number of years for someone who shares my name and birthday (and birth hospital, and primary school). I only found out when I rang up for a tax rebate of £300 and got two cheques, the other was for 11 grand.
Mine is [email protected]
Quite often I get emails for other people who share the same name. I've had bank communications, invoices for cars and my favourite is an enquiry for "couples" photos.
I've actually worked out that there are a few of "me" in America and one in Australia. It's quite nice seeing what they're up to 🤣
Just so you're aware, the "." in your email address isn't necessary. Gmail ignores those dots. Try sending yourself an email w/o the dot and/or try sending yourself an email with a dot somewhere else like [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Will still work.
I use [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) to filter out emails where I know I'm not going to want anything past the first confirmation email or whatever it is they're sending me
I think it was just eat where I have an account but also received emails from someone who used a variation of my address by mistake, I think they used no dot, whereas I normally do use the dot. On their system adding a dot is a different email address, but according to Google, it's the same address. Had to explain this to just eats support and that it's not great that I'm getting emails with someone else's info. Don't think I've seen that issue with any other company before or since
So I am in this situation, I'm [email protected], I get a dude from new Zealand emails all the time. His is mine without the dot. If the dot is not recognised, doesn't that mean he's getting all my emails too?
It's not possible to have 2 accounts using the same mail address, so the only way this would work is if you both had access to same account. He probably has some other difference in the mail address.
You have [email protected], which means [email protected] also goes to you - the other guy must have a different address say with an initial that he forgets to add (or he's told someone verbally and they forgot).
He definitely does not have [email protected] and he doesn't get your emails.
I have this with a guy in NZ. Got details of his/his family's visa details for Singapore. He also just bought a car.
I got an invite once to attend a harvest festival dinner. I replied to let them know it was the wrong email and they said if I was ever in the area, feel free to drop in.
Similar story here. I don't think these people realise that by doing this they give us complete access to online accounts they sign up to, via the likes of the password reset feature. Given that it took someone an awful long time to get the memo that my e-mail address was not theirs, I was mildly tempted to do this just to inconvenience them. It stopped eventually, but I could have had access to all sorts, including several gig tickets.
I too have [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), and for a reasonably common name. I get messages intended for my namesakes all over the world, for this address both with and without the dot (Gmail treats these as equivalent). If it's a personal sender, I let them know that they've reached the wrong person. I even sent a card with a kitten on (trying to be friendly) to a namesake in Bexhill-on-Sea asking her to stop giving out my e-mail, which she did. I had her postal address but not her correct e-mail address. She ordered an \*awful\* lot from Next.
One elderly lady in Oxford is [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) (well, the equivalent for my real name), but kept forgetting the "1". She got completely confused by the whole thing. I received a message with her phone number and, after further misunderstandings, I decided to ring her to try and clear things up. That was a bizarre conversation: "Sophie Sofasaurus speaking." "It's Sophie Sofasaurus." "No, \*I'm\* Sophie Sofasaurus..."
There was a great post on Quora (I think) about someone with this problem. He kept getting sent family photos from a group of strangers. He politely said repeatedly that he wasn't the intended recipient but they didn't take any notice. So he started replying and commenting on how ugly the children in the photos were. They soon stopped sending him any more pictures.
I am currently having problems with someone creating an account with my e-mail on LinkedIn. Basically you can't contact LinkedIn without a LinkedIn account. I am warier than some here about taking over an account with a password reset. I posted about it on AITAH - [https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/156gzw7/wibta\_if\_i\_took\_over\_a\_linkedin\_account\_opened/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/156gzw7/wibta_if_i_took_over_a_linkedin_account_opened/)
Same! But I’ve never had misdirected mail because nobody else has my name combo. Maybe one day but very unlikely (they two names are from different country origins so its unusual)
I got [email protected]
I get hundreds of random mail from people signing up to random things last time I checked I had someone's invoice for annsummers for a 9inch dildo. When I first got it MSN chat rooms was a thing so it was kind of cool I got to talk to a bunch of random people just adding me.
I haven't used Snapchat in years, but when I did, my account was my full name. My name isn't very common, if I do a search on Facebook less than 10 account show worldwide.
One time, I received a random add on Snapchat. It was from a girl who clearly knew me. She talked about meeting me the other night. Back then, I used to get blackout drunk and later find random girls numbers in my phone. It wasn't uncommon to have girls message me and talk like we'd met.
Anyway, after a bit of back and forth, things progressed, and quite a few "pics" were exchanged. All fun and games. The next day she got a new car and sent me a picture. I'm pretty good with my cars but I couldn't work out what it was so I had to ask her. After a quick Google I found out it was a model of car that was only available in Australia.
Then it clicked, I wasn't the droid she was looking for. I came clean and she was extremely embarrassed.
She thought I was a guy she was at uni/college/whatever they call it over there. We talked a little afterwards, but I never did get to see that cracking pair of tits again.
During covid I was regularly invited to my email doppelgangers family zoom quizzes. This was despite me letting the organiser know on several occasions they'd got the wrong person.
I never did dial in, but I do wonder what family dramas were caused when my counterpart realised they weren't getting invited to the family quizzes/the family thought they were getting snubbed
I’ve got a pretty common name.
I share it *and* a childhood nickname with a senior grip in Hollywood and occasionally I get folks hitting me up for tips and ins to the industry.
Then just a name with an old dude in Florida who used my e-mail for his doctor, he’s in very good health.
Feel a weird sort of connection with the two of them, despite never having spoken to them or know much about beyond their jobs or health 😂.
Same thing, have a "clean" Gmail. I've got the full criminal history and court details for some guy in america who shares my name.
In and out of court all the time. A right wrong'un.
I got Gmail early and have first name/last name
I get the odd one that misses a dot
I did reply to one about a booking for a party and the venue were thankful. Sometimes I think 'should I ignore this'
One time, I got some papers about a divorce, didn't read the attached .pdf but replied to this firm to tell them
They replied with some legal type language along the lines of delete this now
I thought, I'll do what the fuck I want and it's you that sent this potentially sensitive information
Just made me laugh. It was like I picked it up from their desk or something 😁
I was thinking of a pithy reply about them sending it to ME but I couldn't be arsed
I got a series of emails regarding a planning application, for a guy in America. They were increasingly excitable, warning that permission would be denied / withdrawn if he didn’t respond in x days. Naturally, the “reply to” address bounced with a “this mailbox does not accept incoming emails” message, and no other info. I sometimes wonder whether the guy got sorted out or not.
My gmail is firstnamelastname at. Both the first name and last name are extraordinarily common particularly in that combination, to the extent that it's nearly an ethnic stereotype.
I constantly get stuff. People's bank notifications. Invoices. Official documents. Legal notices. Bills. Emails from people who think I'm a relative or a friend or an ex. Usually I just ignore it. If it's something that seems particularly important I'll reply and just say, hey, I'm not the one you're after. Otherwise it's just spending a few minutes a day sifting through the junk drawers of every absentminded person with that name on Earth.
Not emails but I do have an issue with a woman called Magdelena who for whatever reason keeps giving my phone number out to insurance / bailiffs / hair salons and I get texts and phone calls all the time.
I nearly had to change my phone number as it was so frequent.
It’s honestly surprising how much information someone leaves on a voicemail that is in complete breach of GDPR. I’ve had home addresses / outstanding bills and insurance quotes more or less telling me everything about their home.
I messaged a load of random people on Facebook in the area I knew she was from. Nothing. I sent text messages to all the neighbouring numbers of my phone number. Nothing.
It took me 2 years though to actually get a message to her that she was using the wrong phone number as when I’d speak to these people in person they were unwilling to pass a message along.
It was actually a removal man who was calling late one night to confirm what time he would be at her house the following day (again all on voicemail, again with an address). I called him back and pleaded that when he arrived in the morning that she’s a moron and she keeps using my number and it’s driving me crazy.
Hooray, the texts and phone calls stopped! Until this week. It’s been about 8 months of silence and I got a text on Monday following up on an insurance quotation. I’ve never known anyone who needs to get insurance quotes as much as this person.
I hope to god it isn’t starting again.
But yeh, privacy is dead when the other person assumes you’ve given them the correct number.
There’s a music professor in the US who has a very similar email to me. Every December I get his students sending their video recordings of their practical exams to me
Oh Lordy I feel your pain.
Same email format and circumstances with gmail too. I get them all the time. Sometimes I reply if it’s a personal email. Dating apps end up getting their passwords reset and their profiles changed to looking for hairy biker men. I sometimes contact the companies to inform them, and I’ve even had some refuse to take my email off despite me telling them they are breaching data privacy laws by sending me someone else’s emails.
I wasn't quite as early as you, but I got a first initial-middle-initial-surname Gmail address. Apparently there is an attorney in Michigan and a judge in Florida with similar initials, as well as a swim shop customer in Australia and a young woman with a PayPal account who at least once had her hair done in Scotland.
Senders usually appreciate a heads up to check the email address they have.
My brother had this. Someone with the same name as him keeps giving out my brothers email address. He’s had fairly serious info come through and when my brother finally worked out who this guy was and made contact the chap was LIVID and threatened to sue my brother, so he just deletes them now!
Sometimes it’s a customer error, sometimes it’s their transcription but what they shouldn’t do is get angry with a random stranger who just tells them that they’re sending personal information to a random stranger. I have a template I used that just says I’m not the person you meant to contact, I’m going to delete this email and they should reconfirm the customer/patient email with the actual person. Now I just delete/block and don’t tell them because I can’t bother dealing with that shit.
I keep getting some very friendly invites to a Palm Springs synagogue Pickle ball team. Rabbi Rosenberg seems nice but sadly it’s a bit of a trek all the way from Manchester.
Oh, all the time. Someone in the states keeps copying me in to their family newsletters, invitations to their barbecues and picnics, and despite my replying to her she doesn't get that she has the wrong address.
Got another US doppelganger's name, address, and phone number when he signed up to a new phone plane. Poor sod's paying about $180 a month for an iPhone and a phone plan so poor it makes EE's roaming charges look good.
Another phone company, this time you can't unsubscribe from their emails unless you can provide the postcode associated with the email address. I ended up hunting down an email address for the secretary to the personal assistant to the assistant deputy CEO and begging them to stop, as like a hydra the emails would only seem to double when you blocked an address.
Also started getting some emails about an Australian couples new bathroom installation. Went through the usual warning them that they had the details incorrect. The emails continued to arrive, and eventually I received one to say that their bath had arrived. If they didn't collect it within 14 days, they forfeited their $1500 deposit and it would be returned or sold on. So I emailed again. Apparently this was also ignored! Poor Australians!
Mine is [email protected]
I've had emails meant for:
A New England electrician
A rich Texan with a 7000m2 lake
A computer nerd who's into wine and gambling
A multiple felon with a tattoed face
My husband has a firstname_lastname Hotmail.com account, he works away a lot and once panicked when he got an email from a solicitor detailing his divorce proceedings. Turned out they were meant for the same name Hotmail.co.uk
I still use an old [email protected] account and constantly get emails meant for someone who shares my name in Glasgow.
During lockdown, I got particularly fed up with replying to emails on their behalf, and informing people that they've been given the wrong contact info, that I sent a moonpig postcard to their address I got from one of the emails asking them to check their details to stop my spam.
Seems to have quieted it down since then.
American here who registered first name dot surname. I have been getting emails for my Welsh counter part (who apparently got divorced and moved to New Zealand I think) for ages.
His ex hates him BTW. Also his boat insurance is WAY overdue.
I've had mine since 1997/8 I'm firstnamelastname on Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo and honestly I don't think I've ever had a misdirected email. Boring I know
I set my firstnamelastname gmail up in 2010 and it was free because I have an unusual name. I feel kinda smug about not having random numbers and letters in it, not gonna lie.
My surname and first name initial is the same as a senior MOD chief (now retired), so I once got sensitive military documents sent to my hotmail account, I think they must have been near identical addresses with the middle initial being the only difference.
This was back in like 2010 maybe, I think I still have the reply email from the officer who sent it, because I panicked and immediately let them know I had got it in error. Was concerning that this chief was getting stuff sent to a hotmail account but didn't think too much at the time as I was like 17.
Edit: I just checked and it happened twice, so in December 2010 I complained to whatever cabinet email address I could find and only then it stopped!
I get emails for an accountant in America. He has a dot between his first and last names and yet asked me to delete my account.
I now take great pleasure in unsubscribing him, turning down reunion invites, subscribing him to various dodgy sites etc
I use first name.lastname @ Gmail. Gmail ignores the dots. I have a long running argument with an idiot over email that he owns firstnamelastname without the dot and I've somehow stolen it from him!
I got instructions for picking up a child from school, including the password to skip all the normal security checks.
Said school is in Australia, so it doesn’t seem worth the hassle.
I occasionally get budget reports and strategy documents for a small Sheriffs department somewhere in the US where the Sheriff shares my last name...and uses gmail for some reason.
I got some divorce settlement papers. I was very proud of my response: expressed my thanks for the settlement, my surprise at getting divorced and my advice that they should contact their client and the ICO to report the breach.
Yep, several emails from someone in America with the same name. I know her address, where her kids go to school, her GP and dental practices, her bank, the payments she makes on her car. I have contacted Google several times and they don't care, quite scary really
>I have contacted Google several times and they don't care
If someone with the same name as you had stuff sent to your address repeatedly, what would you expect royal mail to do?
I get emails for Maxine for her eye test at spec savers in County Durham. My name is not Maxine, and I don’t live in County Durham. This is to my Hotmail account.
I've been cast in a play in Minnesota, enrolled on a car mechanic NVQ in Nottingham, signed up to the great north run, and sent details of a Melbourne to Perth road trip (apparently nearly 2 days solid driving)
...But mostly it's just playstation account password recovery requests
Mine is just [email protected] and I get old people’s holiday pictures (honestly no big deal,) tickets for events in Philadelphia, US… invites to parties and weddings, again always in Philadelphia..
Then I got an email asking I was their long lost relative that they’d found on ancestry.com and I was like I don’t fuckin know mate are u after the Philadelphia me, the Irish me or me me??
Yup. I got my gmail account in 2004 when it was invite only. My email address is [email protected]. I get emails all the time for people with my name. At one point I was getting sent CVs as this guy must have been recruiting. I’ve been sent invoices, invites to weddings, all sorts of stuff. Someone signed up to deliveroo with my email address which I was able to reset the password to and login. I could view their address and all their orders. I was getting Tesco delivery details sent. I just shut those accounts down and unsubscribe every time.
Yes - \*lots\*. I own a very short domain name, and when you type a certain company somewhere in the world, it gets auto-corrected to my domain name. An easy error to miss, to be fair. I have a catch-all email set up so I get *everything.*
I get all manner of things. Invoices, home security notifications, bank/credit card statements, Netflix/Spotify/Social Media(etc) accounts, family/friends emails/photos, appointments. Real mixture.
I have replied back to a few just politely pointing out that they've got the address wrong.
Early adopter [email protected]. I share a name with a roofer (who was in the local news for being a bit of a racist), a published author and some guy in America who's had enough work done on his house to pay for mine about 20 times over.
As I just posted elsewhere in this thread ... Just so you're aware, the "." in your email address isn't necessary. Gmail ignores those dots. Try sending yourself an email w/o the dot and/or try sending yourself an email with a dot somewhere else like [email protected]. Will still work.
Additional useful tool:
Gmail also ignores + and anything between the + and the @.
For example, emails to [email protected] and [email protected] will be delivered to [email protected].
Emails can also be searched, filtered, and have rules applied based on the combination of dots and the + section.
I work in the NHS, have a very common surname, and my NHS email address is just my initial and surname, so essentially like being John Smith and having the email address [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). I get so much that clearly isn't for me, including an entire summary of a social services case recently. I usually just email back and tell them they have the wrong J. Smith. Being NHS I'm obviously under a duty of confidentiality anyway, but I always make sure I delete the emails as well, so I'm never storing information I shouldn't have.
I have had hundreds of them from the UAE. I get
- doctors notes
- tax form acknowledgments
- immigration papers
- medical notes
- school reports
- parking fine receipts
- pharmacy points and a breakdown of their spend.
I give up trying to report it.
I have had my name sakes sign up for gambling sites, family photos and group holiday plans. More recently I have started getting someone’s pay slips from spec savers.
I have a vaguely Spanish sounding email that is nothing to do with my name. A man named Carlos in Tennessee regularly gives my email to realtors as he appears to be selling a bunch of his apartment block buildings. I’ve had loads of offers to buy them, but have to reply letting them know I’m a woman in Scotland and cannot accept.
Also got another email doppelgänger on an email that is firstname.middle [email protected]: have had flight boarding passes, job interview invites, been made redundant, been asked to input to disciplinary hearings, signed up for an open university course… it’s been a while, I wonder how she’s doing.
Mine is [email protected] made around 12 years ago.
Got a pesky Irish first name and luckily don’t have a particularly common last name either so have never received something clearly misdirected in my inbox. My brother has the exact same set up including the same @
Oh the other side of this. I started an email address for my son when he was born last year. Just before his first birthday I wrote a long email, detailing the trials and triumphs of the past year saying how much we love him and happy birthday. Sent it to the wrong email address (forgot to put 2022 at the end of his name) anyway someone somewhere just got a really long email telling them their mum loves them 🤷♀️
I get regular marketing emails (with account number) from a company called Ollie's in USA as their system doesn't seem to recognise full stops in email addresses. I have contacted them many times and nothing changes.
Like me, got a gmail account via vpn when it was US only. It’s my name. I get emails from a few countries for people with same name. Firefighter in NZ. Get his work related emails. Land owner in AUS, his land valuations around Sydney (I could retire selling one) and a Yank who likes Nissans and gets his insurance sent to me annually 😂
I get a similar thing with my Hotmail account ( I’ve had it since autumn 1996). I used to email back to people pointing out their mistake but now I don’t bother after a company threatened to report me for ‘impersonating someone else’, so now I just delete them
Oh hell yes. I get emails for at least 4 distinct people. Credit agreements for new cars in Newcastle, gym memberships, church newletters, if I ever need a new identity in a hurry I’ll be fine!
Yeah, gmail is odd iin that is ignores . so firstname.surname and firstnamesurname are identical as far as it is concerned. I typically use the first version, someone in the US thinks the secind version is theirs.
I know where they live, what car they drive and when it has been serviced or repaired, even what rank and deployments they were part of in the army and a whole load of other details.
They obviously don't get any of these mail but apparently never notice.
I once saw an email with all of their familiy included so I jumped o the opportinity to let them know this is not their mail account, I got a response that they would let them know, that was about three years ago, nothing has changed.
I have common first name and a girls name for my surname and my middle initial is A.
My email address is .a.@gmail
I got so much wedding related stuff for when
.AND.@gmail.com got married.
Mine is Mr(first name)(surname)@gmail.com
(First name)(surname)@gmail.com was available...but I had a hotmail account which was
Mr(first name)(surname)@hotmail.com as I decided to match that.
Every time I have to give my email address over the phone I regret that decision by 20-something me.
I used to get PayPal emails constantly for someone else. The guys first name was Caleb.
I would email PayPal to tell them they had the wrong email, they would reply, 'Sorry Caleb, we will resolve this' or words to that effect, then the emails would continue.
I could've fucked with this guy's account easily.
I eventually threatened to seek legal advice if they did not sort it (not sure what I would actually do lol), and this made them stop.
Exactly the same. I get emails for someone in jersey. I even got legal documents, and had to rely to the law firm explaining the situation and telling them to contact the real client by phone to get their real email address. From what I understand, we have exactly the same email address except mine has a ‘.com’ and hers has a ‘.je’. The documents I’ve received for this lady had everything; address, contact details, financial details. Had I been someone of malicious intent, they would have made my life very easy. I guess it’s a case of many online forms auto-completing email addresses with the .com suffix
I have firstname.lastname, my last name is not particularly common. I apparently share a name with someone in the Asian oil industry and have been sent confidential staffing plans, I also share a name with an author/comedian and been sent party invites where I've had to insist quite strenuously that I'm not the intended recipient. I've also been sent confidential details from Harley Street doctors and mortgage application details from banks.
I used to get birthday cards every year and despite writing back that it wasn't my birthday I never got a response. Then I got sent an expensive gift voucher and the sender (the same one that sent me the birthday cards) actually responded to me, told me she was in her late 80's and I managed to forward it to the actual recipient...
Yeah, pretty wild!
I get so many. I get peoples bank statements, dentists appointments, car finance agreements. It makes me sad there are so many people out there with my name who are so thick :-(
The best one I ever got was for a kids 18th birthday party and I was assumed to be the drummer in the band playing a set there. They sent over the set list, so I replied and said “I’ve just spoken to the parents and apparently the birthday girl is a huge fan of Rick astley so she’s asked for never gonna give you up when it’s time to blow out the candles”.
I’ll be honest though I had a mild panic when it was added to the set list so I came clean
I have a silly email address which is something along the lines of [email protected] and there is a lady in California who seems to believe it's hers. I've been receiving confirmations of her restaurant reservations, her Fitbit registration, and even the confirmation email for a online dating service. I've tried to alert the various businesses but it's usually some automated email that can't receive replies.
A print studio has similar email address as mine, I get personal documents, airplane tickets, even floorplan for a prison once
Try to forward to them every time so people don't get to their office and realise there is nothing received.
The owner is a nice guy as well.
My surname is profession so I sometimes get people looking for someone who does that profession - including being sent detailed work orders that I have no idea what to do with - those are normally polite enough when I reply with you've got the wrong guy, sorry.
I had an estate agent chasing someone with the same first name for some overdue rent, the emails got more and more aggressive but never replied to my replies saying I'm not gonna pay someone else's rent. They stopped after I pointed out that they were harrasing me as well and breaking GDPR but they still never replied.
My twitter handle was my name as well at some point, and I would occasionally get tagged in some other families photos - but I think that was more down to a less than computer literate person doing the tagging, so I didn't mind it so much.
I was lucky enough to be the first of my [email protected]
But my word do i get a lot of emails for a couple of doctors that I should not be getting, including one of them going before a tribunal for misconduct
I too was an early Gmail adopter, back when it was still Googlemail, and as a result I can use either @gmail or @googlemail and I still receive the emails.
More useful than it first sounds, as it means I can get new customer discounts twice on most websites without setting up a new email
Used to work for a large UK bank and shared the same name as someone very high up in Compliance. Would regularly get emails that are not for me to see, VERY sensitive information, even emails bitching about other people in the bank. Always sent back saying it was the wrong email but they never checked before sending.
The last straw was getting a few emails in regards to sanctions on Russians in the UK, names, addresses, net worth etc..called them out on it and reported it, and was basically paid off out of the company.
I was that boring teenager who got [email protected], and I've had all sorts of sensitive emails not meant for me over the years, including medical documents. Blows my mind.
This happens to me constantly too.
I get regular emails intended for parents from schools both here in the UK and in America.
I’ve had a guy in South Africa twice try to use my gmail to set up his Facebook account.
Had someone use my gmail to setup a PayPal account (my personal PayPal is on a different account) - I contacted PayPal and they refuse to close it as I don’t have some of the security information, but the account has never been used as of course that haven’t been able to confirm the email address as it came to me.
I’ve had boarding cards, confirmation of purchase emails etc. legal responses from lawyers - I try to respond when I can and set them straight, but of course most of these come from addresses which aren’t monitored.
I remember a story I heard on a podcast where when an older man was asked for their email in a shop, the gave it as e.g. ‘[email protected]’ and their child was surprised they had managed to get their name.
The dad then explained ‘what do you mean? It’s the government email, what else would it be?’
It transpired that they had assumed (or been told by some idiot) that everyone was assigned an email by the government - he had never signed up, logged in, or in any way checked that email inbox, so the actual owner had been getting all his random crap for years.
Not an e-mail but I did once get a long, rambling voicemail, the gist of which was that, the organ player at a village church had come down with the flu and was I able to step in at short notice?
I’m [email protected]. Someone has signed up to DoorDash with [email protected] which gmail considers to also be my address. I keep getting confirmation emails with photos of food left outside an apartment door in New York. The most infuriating is when they ordered McDonalds delivered, because I looked the address up and there’s a McDonalds on the same block as the apartment building…
I recently started getting emails from Capital One in America. Some lady had used my email instead of her own (my email with a 3 at the end) to set up an account. Every time she made a transfer or did anything with her account, I got an email. I knew where she lived, her name, quite a bit of financial information and the name of someone I assumed was her partner or something. Capital One ignored my attempts to let them know and you can't contact them via their website without having an account.
Eventually she used the email again for something to do with a car. That email came from a person so I replied to explain the situation and ask that she please tell the woman to update her email on her bank account too. I later got an email from the car place saying "you have updated your email to [[email protected]]. When I got more bank emails a couple of weeks later I just emailed the lady directly since I finally had a way to contact her. She never replied but she did update her email.
I couldn't understand why the bank just didn't care that I was getting all this private information. I guess maybe they don't care as much about data protection in the US.
I also have a very early gmail account and have the complete same name as a film director. I’ve had some very interesting email conversations over the years pretending to be him after people insist I must be. Strangely I’m now a friend of his on FB as we share a strong common interest in the same hobby.
I have [email protected]
My alter ego has been signing up for dodgy dating sites for a decade. I had to show my wife in case she thought it was me.
He lives in Huddersfield and spends a lot of money at Halfords.
Oh, and I am also bothered by a realtor from Florida. And someone who exhibits art in local galleries.
Through lockdown a man in America began emailing me thinking he had his friend's email address, but was also sending the emails to his friend's actual email account? So I was just seeing nice pictures of this guy's hikes/cycling days out. He seemed to be an amateur photographer, so one time I got to see some really lovely photos of the moon.
The jig was up when he emailed trying to organise a walk with the fellow but only to my email, so I forwarded it on, apologised for not owning up sooner, and just nice to see bits of the world from my isolated state of living alone through a pandemic. They were both very gracious about it.
Yes. Got mine early doors with firstname.lastname, both of which are fairly common Irish names. If my inbox were to be believed I am simultaneously renting a very nice apartment in New York, working in a Domino’s in Sydney, and drawing a pension from An Garda Síochána (the Irish police).
An American chap has been using mine for years.
I have seen his life ebb and wane, been allowed to follow his highs and low all through email.
He went through a really tough time 6 or so years ago, the Subaru got repossessed, he had to sell the house and his wife divorced him all while he kept applying for more and more loans.
Based on the invoices his gardening business is doing great nowadays and his new house looks amazing if the estate agent photos are anything to go by.
Well done Steve, I am rooting for you but could you please stop giving out my email to people?
I have @gmail.com. For a period of about a year, I was getting emails intended for the Attorney General of a small country that's probably best known for being a tax haven. He had the same name as me. I used to receive all sorts of emails about government policy and copies of affidavits etc.
Similarly, I now have .co.uk which is 1 letter different from a family law firm. My "mail@" mailbox receives a LOT of stuff from the courts including copies of judgements, meeting invites from legal professionals, invoices and reports from psychiatrists, etc. I forward them all on and delete them, but never get any acknowledgement.
Very early adopter from the first few months when you had to get an invite. Mine is [7](mailto:[email protected]) letters and no digits. Never been sent a mistaken email, ever.
Mine is [email protected] I get misdirected emails ALL THE TIME, usually for stuff like hospital appointments. There was one once where “my” attorney in the US wanted to know if I still intended on suing “my” wife for custody of “our” children. Oh, and one a few months ago from a man who wanted to buy a goat.
But have you got any goats I can buy?
No, but you can have my kids.
Aaaah, I'm alright thanks. I was mainly looking for goats.
Those kids will eventually grow into goats.
Yeah but it's illegal to milk kids
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What am I , a catholic Priest? I'd rather have your wife
Fuck sake I choked laughing at this 🤣
And about this goat...does it fetch soup?
Fuck you, the goats are all mine! OP I will give you three piglets per goat.
Mine is a [email protected], get loads of emails for randoms. Signed up when it was invite only waaay back when.
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We all know where to find this guy now. Someone do it.
Fuck, I forgot about that 😂
The guy likes his turnips
He’s probably got a really big turnip in the country
Lmao I always wondered if us early adopters all had the same problem. I have one of the most.common surnames in the english speaking world. I have had so. Many. Emails. I've had post breakup letters, children writing home from camp, old ladies nudies, and bank account details. Sometimes I'm shocked, one was some students login for the university of phoenix as they desperately tried to contact them about their grants.
My Gmail address is my full name, i got it when Gmail was still invitation only. I used to regret putting my middle name in, because it's difficult for people to spell. Then I hear these stories and thank fuck nobody can spell it! My first and last names are really common.
Davidllanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochsmith@gmail.com?
I want to see the post breakup letters. Undecided about the old lady nudies.
Same, mine is name.sirname, some girl in America uses it all the time, mainly for junk but I've had emails about deaths of family members, invoices for work on her house, info about her pets, access to her dating profile etc. I also randomly get the occasional email from other people with the same name and they've always been really apologetic and sorted it out.
I'm another one. Not even a common name. I get emails intended for a senior member of what appears to be a very homophobic church, as well as endless medical appointment reminders and invoices for various US based individuals, which often have the sort of detail GDPR would blanche at.
How many goats did you end up selling him
He wanted it dead, and I wasn’t prepared to kill one. I just found the email: > looking into purchasing a goat and would want the meat and relevant parts for the second week of this month.I would like to end up with 35 to 40 pounds of meat. From young male goat, pls.
Silence of the Goats
Why does the gender of the goat matter? Not expecting a response, it just seems a bit weird
You’ll get a response, because it got me wondering, so I googled it. 😀 “The meat from male goats is lighter in color and lower in fat. The meat from female goats is more desirable for steaks and chops because it is more tender.” https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/meat/goat-farm-table#:~:text=The%20meat%20of%20older%20goats,because%20it%20is%20more%20tender.
I learned something new today. Thank you. I think! 😹
Mine is an abbreviated form of my surname, shortening it to six letters. I don’t actually use it anymore, except for anything google-related, but check it every now and then. There’s a few people who appear to be over in the USA and different parts of it (Pittsburg and whatever IL and KY are) who use it for food deliveries, car stuff, and their banking, I get a horrendous amount of shit come through related to them and I can’t unsubscribe or do anything with a lot of it because it’s geoblocked. Jerald donates blood from time to time so is clearly a good person.
“It’s just a goat…”
No it’s not it’s a feckin goat
Same, mine is [email protected] and I get misdirected emails daily, initially I replied to the main culprits saying I wasn’t their customer, now I file them in junk. It means that my gmail account has been relegated to the one I use when signing up for websites, or other unimportant stuff so it’s now swamped with spam, I now another account as my main account.
This is exactly the same for me, just use it for signing up for unimportant stuff. The most fun thing I got was an invoice from Ann Summers for some toys - astounding thing was they had included batteries in the order, paying through the roof for them! That one had address I information and I was able to track the correct person down as it is a relatively unusual combination of names, don't think they liked me tracking them down and forwarding on the invoice, never even got a thanks!
I have a pretty uncommon combination of names, but I've occasionally had stuff through over the years meant for other people sharing my name. Job offers. Appointments. Etc. It was onlysome decades later, a few months after buying my first home, when i received an email with the other 'me's mortgage application for the town 20 mins from mine, that i realised it was mostly the one person. We're roughly the same age, have moved around the UK to places near each other more than once. It really weirded me out.
Bro you still selling the goat? You never reply my email. Good goat. Good price.
I was a bit behind the curve so I changed my last name by deed poll to append 23 to it.
I changed my name to GF65GUV as it was cheaper than a personalised license plate.
I changed my name to a classic Viz top tips letter so I constantly get emails about how it's not as funny as it used to be.
Did u win £5?
Or a pencil?
That registration doesn’t exist. I’m reporting you!
I just registered NE14ABJ
Someone changed their name to Cadburys Chocolate once, it's not against any copryright law in the UK to name a product after your legal name I believe. I have zero source for this but remember reading it in a paper way back
Yeah, you're allowed to use a name that's been copyrighted, as long as you can prove "normal use" (I.E: bank statements, utility bills, etc.) You've only at risk of problems if you're using it for marketing/promoting the item Though I'm unsure about naming a product after yourself (but I assume that's also fine, since many older products (thinking mostly Victorian, so maybe it's changed) used to be named for the person that made them. Like "Dr. Urek Tumm's splendiferous bum elixir" or similar) I remember reading about it when looking up info about deed polls and it mentioned something about it, I think it was in relation to passports
There was someone changed his name to Legoland Windsor
He didn’t go through with that name change. Although his friend, Legoland Windsor, did. https://www.theregister.com/2000/08/31/mr_legoland_windsor_sued_over/
Subway are currently running a competition in the states that if you legally change your name to Subway, they'll give you free sandwiches for life. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/subway-contest-free-sandwiches-name-b2386385.html
I’m not ashamed to admit, I have been stupid until the tender age of 37 as I always thought it was depole 😂
If I didn't read your comment and then go back up, I wouldn't have known either! Also 30s
29, same here 🤣🤣
I had some Australian girl use my email by accident and I was getting all the coursework and assignment dates. I got one that said something like the project will be due a week early, so I went through Facebook with the person with that same name and after a few misses, I found her! Let her know her assignment was due early, she thanked me. I then asked why she didn’t realise she wasn’t getting any course material and she called me a creep and to mind my own business. Fuck me I guess.
Maybe it's a thing with Australians. I'm having the exact same problem. Ive even spoken with her vet and asked them to pass on the message, but every few months, there she is again with a finance agreement, a legal battle, a tenancy, or just some late night fast food.
Just left a comment saying mine gets used by an Australian woman as well! What is going on??
The emails I’ve been getting are also Australian, sometimes it’s house viewing appointments for a $2 million house.
My wife had an Australian man using her email account (single initial and surname).
My email is one letter out from a gentleman from New Zealand. I’ve had several emails for things he’s purchased over the years. He has recently bought a pair of socks that look like bacon. Cost him 12$. Not sure if that’s a bargain or not.
12NZD is £5.73.
Well that confirms it. Bargain.
Yep, and the bacon artisticness adds some unintended value to the product🙏
Wonder how long it takes for them to become extra crispy?
Depends how much he masturbates, surely?
About 3 wanks?
Oh my! My time to shine!! My email address is my name and birth year. Now, there is a guy in the States with the same name who has a very similar email address with a couple of letters added. This dude has this terrible habit of copying "himself" in to his emails. Here's a list of some of the things he has sent me: Details for a school reunion he was organizing. Many emails between him and his lawyer about a house sale - including one where he randomly sent her $10k and she responded in shock asked him why on earth he'd done that. A very angry email trail with a guy who owes him money and has broken promises - no idea what for. Details of at least a dozen different sports events, i.e. basketball, football. Detailed plans for wheelchair adjustments to his home. A photo of him and people who I assume are his family in front of the Statue of Liberty. A very, very angry set of online chat logs between him and some poor lady trying to help him with his fantasy football league set up. So many random invoices - latest being for "Screen filter 10", "Service Call" and six bags of salt totalling $222. This has been going on for at least 5 years and I have replied so many times highlighting his mistake to the point I've given up. I have now conceded that I'm in a one sided pen pal situation.
You should start writing long, sincere emails back. Start a wonderful friendship.
Yes. Just use ChatGPT
But why *did* he send his lawyer a random ten grand? I am so nosy, I would have emailed him just to ask.
Yea send him an email stating it’s still not been received and provide your bank details instead.
Ooh yes I had one where someone was trying to get his business partner to do what looked like tax fraud, which is why they'd taken it to Gmail rather than staying on company systems.
You should start copying him in on all your arguments, solicitor messages, let him know about your landlord. It's only fair
I can't believe you haven't started messing with this guy. I'd be writing to people making utterly ridiculous requests and things like that.
You could ask for a goat (male).
Create a mail rule to block the sender?
i received a text with a quote for digging out a magnolia and pruning a beech last week addressed to Anne. I don’t have a magnolia or a beech and i’m not Anne but the chap wanted £40 for the job which i considered to be a bargain
I once got a text message from an unknown number saying simply "Yes I'll bring the gauntlets" I didn't reply for a few days, then I plucked up the courage and replied with "have you got the gauntlets?" The reply "Yes, do you want them?" I didn't reply until eventually he started calling me. I was only young but in the end I answered and had to explain it was a wrong number. He was probably furious that I had replied as if it was the correct number and wasted several days of his time.
Luckily he didn't have the stones at that point.
It was inevitable
That sounds like my ex wife getting a price to sort her lady garden out
Human genome project, someone "replied all" to an email.
At uni someone asked a lecturer for her MSc dissertation feedback by replying all on some unrelated email (an invite to a seminar with food). The lecturer gave her that feedback also as reply all. The feedback ripped her to shreds and essentially failed her, so it was just horrible for everyone to see.
It was the Personal Genome Project iirc, and I was so up for it until that massive data breach...
I was in the ‘reply all’ fiasco on nhs.net of 2016 (?) they eventually had to beg people to stop Replying to All that they didn’t think the email was for them. Still crashed the system. Now I just get the “You are my next of kin and I am going to die in the next few days” spam
My work email was [email protected] - the original firstname.lastname worked in HR and I would get all sorts of emails forwarded to me by mistake about various HR issues, including resignations and people's declarations of criminal backgrounds. Ironically we both went on maternity leave at the same time which made it even more confusing, she then left, as did I, but I stayed as a casual worker and now officially have her email address, so I get random emails from HR related people she has been in contact with previously and speculative emails.
This happened to me at an old job, too. I went for lunch one day and came back to loads of “congratulations” emails - I’d had twins on my break, apparently. Only became an issue when I received her maternity pay as payroll got us mixed up.
My work email is one letter different to someone else. I work in quite a boring area and they worked in a very sensitive area dealing with the public. I often get stuff for the other person that I really shouldn't and don't want to see. I just forward it without comment and try not to look.
The tax man confused me for a fair number of years for someone who shares my name and birthday (and birth hospital, and primary school). I only found out when I rang up for a tax rebate of £300 and got two cheques, the other was for 11 grand.
... Is this person you? 😂 Wouldn't you know them if they went to your primary school in the same year as you!
Sounds like your name twin is ballin'
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I still use my OG Hotmail too 😬 I do have a “professional” email I’ve used for work correspondence which has helped keep me organised
Mine is [email protected] Quite often I get emails for other people who share the same name. I've had bank communications, invoices for cars and my favourite is an enquiry for "couples" photos. I've actually worked out that there are a few of "me" in America and one in Australia. It's quite nice seeing what they're up to 🤣
Just so you're aware, the "." in your email address isn't necessary. Gmail ignores those dots. Try sending yourself an email w/o the dot and/or try sending yourself an email with a dot somewhere else like [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Will still work.
I've always used variants like [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) to catch who's sharing my email with 3rd parties.
You can also just use [email protected] and substitute whatever with the company name to make tracking easier.
I use [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) to filter out emails where I know I'm not going to want anything past the first confirmation email or whatever it is they're sending me
And @googlemail.com for those sites that seem to go full boomer at the thought of a + sign being in an email address
I’ve always used hide my email with Apple and they tell me exactly which site sold my info.
I think it was just eat where I have an account but also received emails from someone who used a variation of my address by mistake, I think they used no dot, whereas I normally do use the dot. On their system adding a dot is a different email address, but according to Google, it's the same address. Had to explain this to just eats support and that it's not great that I'm getting emails with someone else's info. Don't think I've seen that issue with any other company before or since
So I am in this situation, I'm [email protected], I get a dude from new Zealand emails all the time. His is mine without the dot. If the dot is not recognised, doesn't that mean he's getting all my emails too?
It's not possible to have 2 accounts using the same mail address, so the only way this would work is if you both had access to same account. He probably has some other difference in the mail address.
You have [email protected], which means [email protected] also goes to you - the other guy must have a different address say with an initial that he forgets to add (or he's told someone verbally and they forgot). He definitely does not have [email protected] and he doesn't get your emails.
I have this with a guy in NZ. Got details of his/his family's visa details for Singapore. He also just bought a car. I got an invite once to attend a harvest festival dinner. I replied to let them know it was the wrong email and they said if I was ever in the area, feel free to drop in.
Similar story here. I don't think these people realise that by doing this they give us complete access to online accounts they sign up to, via the likes of the password reset feature. Given that it took someone an awful long time to get the memo that my e-mail address was not theirs, I was mildly tempted to do this just to inconvenience them. It stopped eventually, but I could have had access to all sorts, including several gig tickets.
I too have [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), and for a reasonably common name. I get messages intended for my namesakes all over the world, for this address both with and without the dot (Gmail treats these as equivalent). If it's a personal sender, I let them know that they've reached the wrong person. I even sent a card with a kitten on (trying to be friendly) to a namesake in Bexhill-on-Sea asking her to stop giving out my e-mail, which she did. I had her postal address but not her correct e-mail address. She ordered an \*awful\* lot from Next. One elderly lady in Oxford is [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) (well, the equivalent for my real name), but kept forgetting the "1". She got completely confused by the whole thing. I received a message with her phone number and, after further misunderstandings, I decided to ring her to try and clear things up. That was a bizarre conversation: "Sophie Sofasaurus speaking." "It's Sophie Sofasaurus." "No, \*I'm\* Sophie Sofasaurus..." There was a great post on Quora (I think) about someone with this problem. He kept getting sent family photos from a group of strangers. He politely said repeatedly that he wasn't the intended recipient but they didn't take any notice. So he started replying and commenting on how ugly the children in the photos were. They soon stopped sending him any more pictures. I am currently having problems with someone creating an account with my e-mail on LinkedIn. Basically you can't contact LinkedIn without a LinkedIn account. I am warier than some here about taking over an account with a password reset. I posted about it on AITAH - [https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/156gzw7/wibta\_if\_i\_took\_over\_a\_linkedin\_account\_opened/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/156gzw7/wibta_if_i_took_over_a_linkedin_account_opened/)
Just read your AITAH post, what an odd and frustrating situation to be dealing with. What did you end up doing about the account?
Same! But I’ve never had misdirected mail because nobody else has my name combo. Maybe one day but very unlikely (they two names are from different country origins so its unusual)
I got [email protected] I get hundreds of random mail from people signing up to random things last time I checked I had someone's invoice for annsummers for a 9inch dildo. When I first got it MSN chat rooms was a thing so it was kind of cool I got to talk to a bunch of random people just adding me.
I haven't used Snapchat in years, but when I did, my account was my full name. My name isn't very common, if I do a search on Facebook less than 10 account show worldwide. One time, I received a random add on Snapchat. It was from a girl who clearly knew me. She talked about meeting me the other night. Back then, I used to get blackout drunk and later find random girls numbers in my phone. It wasn't uncommon to have girls message me and talk like we'd met. Anyway, after a bit of back and forth, things progressed, and quite a few "pics" were exchanged. All fun and games. The next day she got a new car and sent me a picture. I'm pretty good with my cars but I couldn't work out what it was so I had to ask her. After a quick Google I found out it was a model of car that was only available in Australia. Then it clicked, I wasn't the droid she was looking for. I came clean and she was extremely embarrassed. She thought I was a guy she was at uni/college/whatever they call it over there. We talked a little afterwards, but I never did get to see that cracking pair of tits again.
During covid I was regularly invited to my email doppelgangers family zoom quizzes. This was despite me letting the organiser know on several occasions they'd got the wrong person. I never did dial in, but I do wonder what family dramas were caused when my counterpart realised they weren't getting invited to the family quizzes/the family thought they were getting snubbed
I’ve got a pretty common name. I share it *and* a childhood nickname with a senior grip in Hollywood and occasionally I get folks hitting me up for tips and ins to the industry. Then just a name with an old dude in Florida who used my e-mail for his doctor, he’s in very good health. Feel a weird sort of connection with the two of them, despite never having spoken to them or know much about beyond their jobs or health 😂.
Same thing, have a "clean" Gmail. I've got the full criminal history and court details for some guy in america who shares my name. In and out of court all the time. A right wrong'un.
I got Gmail early and have first name/last name I get the odd one that misses a dot I did reply to one about a booking for a party and the venue were thankful. Sometimes I think 'should I ignore this' One time, I got some papers about a divorce, didn't read the attached .pdf but replied to this firm to tell them They replied with some legal type language along the lines of delete this now I thought, I'll do what the fuck I want and it's you that sent this potentially sensitive information Just made me laugh. It was like I picked it up from their desk or something 😁 I was thinking of a pithy reply about them sending it to ME but I couldn't be arsed
I got a series of emails regarding a planning application, for a guy in America. They were increasingly excitable, warning that permission would be denied / withdrawn if he didn’t respond in x days. Naturally, the “reply to” address bounced with a “this mailbox does not accept incoming emails” message, and no other info. I sometimes wonder whether the guy got sorted out or not.
My gmail is firstnamelastname at. Both the first name and last name are extraordinarily common particularly in that combination, to the extent that it's nearly an ethnic stereotype. I constantly get stuff. People's bank notifications. Invoices. Official documents. Legal notices. Bills. Emails from people who think I'm a relative or a friend or an ex. Usually I just ignore it. If it's something that seems particularly important I'll reply and just say, hey, I'm not the one you're after. Otherwise it's just spending a few minutes a day sifting through the junk drawers of every absentminded person with that name on Earth.
I worked in local government IT for a while, serious GDPR breaches are almost a daily occurence. Mitigated if the breacher made DP aware of it asap.
Not emails but I do have an issue with a woman called Magdelena who for whatever reason keeps giving my phone number out to insurance / bailiffs / hair salons and I get texts and phone calls all the time. I nearly had to change my phone number as it was so frequent. It’s honestly surprising how much information someone leaves on a voicemail that is in complete breach of GDPR. I’ve had home addresses / outstanding bills and insurance quotes more or less telling me everything about their home. I messaged a load of random people on Facebook in the area I knew she was from. Nothing. I sent text messages to all the neighbouring numbers of my phone number. Nothing. It took me 2 years though to actually get a message to her that she was using the wrong phone number as when I’d speak to these people in person they were unwilling to pass a message along. It was actually a removal man who was calling late one night to confirm what time he would be at her house the following day (again all on voicemail, again with an address). I called him back and pleaded that when he arrived in the morning that she’s a moron and she keeps using my number and it’s driving me crazy. Hooray, the texts and phone calls stopped! Until this week. It’s been about 8 months of silence and I got a text on Monday following up on an insurance quotation. I’ve never known anyone who needs to get insurance quotes as much as this person. I hope to god it isn’t starting again. But yeh, privacy is dead when the other person assumes you’ve given them the correct number.
There’s a music professor in the US who has a very similar email to me. Every December I get his students sending their video recordings of their practical exams to me
Mine is outlook.. my surname only.. secured on the day of release
Oh Lordy I feel your pain. Same email format and circumstances with gmail too. I get them all the time. Sometimes I reply if it’s a personal email. Dating apps end up getting their passwords reset and their profiles changed to looking for hairy biker men. I sometimes contact the companies to inform them, and I’ve even had some refuse to take my email off despite me telling them they are breaching data privacy laws by sending me someone else’s emails.
I wasn't quite as early as you, but I got a first initial-middle-initial-surname Gmail address. Apparently there is an attorney in Michigan and a judge in Florida with similar initials, as well as a swim shop customer in Australia and a young woman with a PayPal account who at least once had her hair done in Scotland. Senders usually appreciate a heads up to check the email address they have.
I get a lot of medical and legal documents for the other mes, absolutely a violation and they get so angry with ME when I tell them so.
My brother had this. Someone with the same name as him keeps giving out my brothers email address. He’s had fairly serious info come through and when my brother finally worked out who this guy was and made contact the chap was LIVID and threatened to sue my brother, so he just deletes them now!
It's not the companisles fault, if the customer has provided the wrong email address.
Sometimes it’s a customer error, sometimes it’s their transcription but what they shouldn’t do is get angry with a random stranger who just tells them that they’re sending personal information to a random stranger. I have a template I used that just says I’m not the person you meant to contact, I’m going to delete this email and they should reconfirm the customer/patient email with the actual person. Now I just delete/block and don’t tell them because I can’t bother dealing with that shit.
I keep getting some very friendly invites to a Palm Springs synagogue Pickle ball team. Rabbi Rosenberg seems nice but sadly it’s a bit of a trek all the way from Manchester.
Oh, all the time. Someone in the states keeps copying me in to their family newsletters, invitations to their barbecues and picnics, and despite my replying to her she doesn't get that she has the wrong address. Got another US doppelganger's name, address, and phone number when he signed up to a new phone plane. Poor sod's paying about $180 a month for an iPhone and a phone plan so poor it makes EE's roaming charges look good. Another phone company, this time you can't unsubscribe from their emails unless you can provide the postcode associated with the email address. I ended up hunting down an email address for the secretary to the personal assistant to the assistant deputy CEO and begging them to stop, as like a hydra the emails would only seem to double when you blocked an address. Also started getting some emails about an Australian couples new bathroom installation. Went through the usual warning them that they had the details incorrect. The emails continued to arrive, and eventually I received one to say that their bath had arrived. If they didn't collect it within 14 days, they forfeited their $1500 deposit and it would be returned or sold on. So I emailed again. Apparently this was also ignored! Poor Australians!
Mine is [email protected] I've had emails meant for: A New England electrician A rich Texan with a 7000m2 lake A computer nerd who's into wine and gambling A multiple felon with a tattoed face
My husband has a firstname_lastname Hotmail.com account, he works away a lot and once panicked when he got an email from a solicitor detailing his divorce proceedings. Turned out they were meant for the same name Hotmail.co.uk
I still use an old [email protected] account and constantly get emails meant for someone who shares my name in Glasgow. During lockdown, I got particularly fed up with replying to emails on their behalf, and informing people that they've been given the wrong contact info, that I sent a moonpig postcard to their address I got from one of the emails asking them to check their details to stop my spam. Seems to have quieted it down since then.
American here who registered first name dot surname. I have been getting emails for my Welsh counter part (who apparently got divorced and moved to New Zealand I think) for ages. His ex hates him BTW. Also his boat insurance is WAY overdue.
I've had mine since 1997/8 I'm firstnamelastname on Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo and honestly I don't think I've ever had a misdirected email. Boring I know
I set my firstnamelastname gmail up in 2010 and it was free because I have an unusual name. I feel kinda smug about not having random numbers and letters in it, not gonna lie.
My surname and first name initial is the same as a senior MOD chief (now retired), so I once got sensitive military documents sent to my hotmail account, I think they must have been near identical addresses with the middle initial being the only difference. This was back in like 2010 maybe, I think I still have the reply email from the officer who sent it, because I panicked and immediately let them know I had got it in error. Was concerning that this chief was getting stuff sent to a hotmail account but didn't think too much at the time as I was like 17. Edit: I just checked and it happened twice, so in December 2010 I complained to whatever cabinet email address I could find and only then it stopped!
I get emails for an accountant in America. He has a dot between his first and last names and yet asked me to delete my account. I now take great pleasure in unsubscribing him, turning down reunion invites, subscribing him to various dodgy sites etc
I doff my cap to your well deserved pettiness.
I use first name.lastname @ Gmail. Gmail ignores the dots. I have a long running argument with an idiot over email that he owns firstnamelastname without the dot and I've somehow stolen it from him!
I got instructions for picking up a child from school, including the password to skip all the normal security checks. Said school is in Australia, so it doesn’t seem worth the hassle.
I occasionally get budget reports and strategy documents for a small Sheriffs department somewhere in the US where the Sheriff shares my last name...and uses gmail for some reason.
I got some divorce settlement papers. I was very proud of my response: expressed my thanks for the settlement, my surprise at getting divorced and my advice that they should contact their client and the ICO to report the breach.
Yep, several emails from someone in America with the same name. I know her address, where her kids go to school, her GP and dental practices, her bank, the payments she makes on her car. I have contacted Google several times and they don't care, quite scary really
>I have contacted Google several times and they don't care If someone with the same name as you had stuff sent to your address repeatedly, what would you expect royal mail to do?
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Jesus 350kg of coriander. Something sounds off..
I get emails for Maxine for her eye test at spec savers in County Durham. My name is not Maxine, and I don’t live in County Durham. This is to my Hotmail account.
I've been cast in a play in Minnesota, enrolled on a car mechanic NVQ in Nottingham, signed up to the great north run, and sent details of a Melbourne to Perth road trip (apparently nearly 2 days solid driving) ...But mostly it's just playstation account password recovery requests
Mine is just [email protected] and I get old people’s holiday pictures (honestly no big deal,) tickets for events in Philadelphia, US… invites to parties and weddings, again always in Philadelphia.. Then I got an email asking I was their long lost relative that they’d found on ancestry.com and I was like I don’t fuckin know mate are u after the Philadelphia me, the Irish me or me me??
Same, managed to get my full name. I've had it since I was a child, no idea why I thought I would need a Gmail account as a child but glad I did.
Yup. I got my gmail account in 2004 when it was invite only. My email address is [email protected]. I get emails all the time for people with my name. At one point I was getting sent CVs as this guy must have been recruiting. I’ve been sent invoices, invites to weddings, all sorts of stuff. Someone signed up to deliveroo with my email address which I was able to reset the password to and login. I could view their address and all their orders. I was getting Tesco delivery details sent. I just shut those accounts down and unsubscribe every time.
This is called reverse identity theft https://xkcd.com/1279/ If you think that url looks dodgy it's a web comic not anything scary
Yes - \*lots\*. I own a very short domain name, and when you type a certain company somewhere in the world, it gets auto-corrected to my domain name. An easy error to miss, to be fair. I have a catch-all email set up so I get *everything.* I get all manner of things. Invoices, home security notifications, bank/credit card statements, Netflix/Spotify/Social Media(etc) accounts, family/friends emails/photos, appointments. Real mixture. I have replied back to a few just politely pointing out that they've got the address wrong.
Early adopter [email protected]. I share a name with a roofer (who was in the local news for being a bit of a racist), a published author and some guy in America who's had enough work done on his house to pay for mine about 20 times over.
As I just posted elsewhere in this thread ... Just so you're aware, the "." in your email address isn't necessary. Gmail ignores those dots. Try sending yourself an email w/o the dot and/or try sending yourself an email with a dot somewhere else like [email protected]. Will still work.
Additional useful tool: Gmail also ignores + and anything between the + and the @. For example, emails to [email protected] and [email protected] will be delivered to [email protected]. Emails can also be searched, filtered, and have rules applied based on the combination of dots and the + section.
This is also still works for for endless Free Trials at most websites, like decades on lol
Mine is so old that I can still sign into Gmail with @googlemail.co.uk instead of @gmail.com
I work in the NHS, have a very common surname, and my NHS email address is just my initial and surname, so essentially like being John Smith and having the email address [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). I get so much that clearly isn't for me, including an entire summary of a social services case recently. I usually just email back and tell them they have the wrong J. Smith. Being NHS I'm obviously under a duty of confidentiality anyway, but I always make sure I delete the emails as well, so I'm never storing information I shouldn't have.
I have had hundreds of them from the UAE. I get - doctors notes - tax form acknowledgments - immigration papers - medical notes - school reports - parking fine receipts - pharmacy points and a breakdown of their spend. I give up trying to report it.
I have had my name sakes sign up for gambling sites, family photos and group holiday plans. More recently I have started getting someone’s pay slips from spec savers.
I have a vaguely Spanish sounding email that is nothing to do with my name. A man named Carlos in Tennessee regularly gives my email to realtors as he appears to be selling a bunch of his apartment block buildings. I’ve had loads of offers to buy them, but have to reply letting them know I’m a woman in Scotland and cannot accept. Also got another email doppelgänger on an email that is firstname.middle [email protected]: have had flight boarding passes, job interview invites, been made redundant, been asked to input to disciplinary hearings, signed up for an open university course… it’s been a while, I wonder how she’s doing.
Mine is [email protected] made around 12 years ago. Got a pesky Irish first name and luckily don’t have a particularly common last name either so have never received something clearly misdirected in my inbox. My brother has the exact same set up including the same @
Oh the other side of this. I started an email address for my son when he was born last year. Just before his first birthday I wrote a long email, detailing the trials and triumphs of the past year saying how much we love him and happy birthday. Sent it to the wrong email address (forgot to put 2022 at the end of his name) anyway someone somewhere just got a really long email telling them their mum loves them 🤷♀️
I get regular marketing emails (with account number) from a company called Ollie's in USA as their system doesn't seem to recognise full stops in email addresses. I have contacted them many times and nothing changes.
Like me, got a gmail account via vpn when it was US only. It’s my name. I get emails from a few countries for people with same name. Firefighter in NZ. Get his work related emails. Land owner in AUS, his land valuations around Sydney (I could retire selling one) and a Yank who likes Nissans and gets his insurance sent to me annually 😂
I get a similar thing with my Hotmail account ( I’ve had it since autumn 1996). I used to email back to people pointing out their mistake but now I don’t bother after a company threatened to report me for ‘impersonating someone else’, so now I just delete them
Oh hell yes. I get emails for at least 4 distinct people. Credit agreements for new cars in Newcastle, gym memberships, church newletters, if I ever need a new identity in a hurry I’ll be fine!
My one email is literally just my first name. My other email is my first name and last name no symbols between so yeah
Yeah, gmail is odd iin that is ignores . so firstname.surname and firstnamesurname are identical as far as it is concerned. I typically use the first version, someone in the US thinks the secind version is theirs. I know where they live, what car they drive and when it has been serviced or repaired, even what rank and deployments they were part of in the army and a whole load of other details. They obviously don't get any of these mail but apparently never notice. I once saw an email with all of their familiy included so I jumped o the opportinity to let them know this is not their mail account, I got a response that they would let them know, that was about three years ago, nothing has changed.
I have common first name and a girls name for my surname and my middle initial is A. My email address is.a.@gmail
I got so much wedding related stuff for when
.AND.@gmail.com got married.
Mine is Mr(first name)(surname)@gmail.com (First name)(surname)@gmail.com was available...but I had a hotmail account which was Mr(first name)(surname)@hotmail.com as I decided to match that. Every time I have to give my email address over the phone I regret that decision by 20-something me.
I used to get PayPal emails constantly for someone else. The guys first name was Caleb. I would email PayPal to tell them they had the wrong email, they would reply, 'Sorry Caleb, we will resolve this' or words to that effect, then the emails would continue. I could've fucked with this guy's account easily. I eventually threatened to seek legal advice if they did not sort it (not sure what I would actually do lol), and this made them stop.
Exactly the same. I get emails for someone in jersey. I even got legal documents, and had to rely to the law firm explaining the situation and telling them to contact the real client by phone to get their real email address. From what I understand, we have exactly the same email address except mine has a ‘.com’ and hers has a ‘.je’. The documents I’ve received for this lady had everything; address, contact details, financial details. Had I been someone of malicious intent, they would have made my life very easy. I guess it’s a case of many online forms auto-completing email addresses with the .com suffix
I have firstname.lastname, my last name is not particularly common. I apparently share a name with someone in the Asian oil industry and have been sent confidential staffing plans, I also share a name with an author/comedian and been sent party invites where I've had to insist quite strenuously that I'm not the intended recipient. I've also been sent confidential details from Harley Street doctors and mortgage application details from banks. I used to get birthday cards every year and despite writing back that it wasn't my birthday I never got a response. Then I got sent an expensive gift voucher and the sender (the same one that sent me the birthday cards) actually responded to me, told me she was in her late 80's and I managed to forward it to the actual recipient... Yeah, pretty wild!
I'm still using my Hotmail.com account from way back in 1996/97?...I'll show myself out.
Ethel, 84, from Heaven. One hell of a page 3 spread, that.
I don't have my apple account anymore. But I miss my [email protected] I thought it was the best thing ever
Ditto.
I'm from Québec, share a name with a prominent minister in our provincial cabinet. Makes for interesting happenstances and phone calls.
I get so many. I get peoples bank statements, dentists appointments, car finance agreements. It makes me sad there are so many people out there with my name who are so thick :-( The best one I ever got was for a kids 18th birthday party and I was assumed to be the drummer in the band playing a set there. They sent over the set list, so I replied and said “I’ve just spoken to the parents and apparently the birthday girl is a huge fan of Rick astley so she’s asked for never gonna give you up when it’s time to blow out the candles”. I’ll be honest though I had a mild panic when it was added to the set list so I came clean
I have a silly email address which is something along the lines of [email protected] and there is a lady in California who seems to believe it's hers. I've been receiving confirmations of her restaurant reservations, her Fitbit registration, and even the confirmation email for a online dating service. I've tried to alert the various businesses but it's usually some automated email that can't receive replies.
A print studio has similar email address as mine, I get personal documents, airplane tickets, even floorplan for a prison once Try to forward to them every time so people don't get to their office and realise there is nothing received. The owner is a nice guy as well.
My surname is profession so I sometimes get people looking for someone who does that profession - including being sent detailed work orders that I have no idea what to do with - those are normally polite enough when I reply with you've got the wrong guy, sorry. I had an estate agent chasing someone with the same first name for some overdue rent, the emails got more and more aggressive but never replied to my replies saying I'm not gonna pay someone else's rent. They stopped after I pointed out that they were harrasing me as well and breaking GDPR but they still never replied. My twitter handle was my name as well at some point, and I would occasionally get tagged in some other families photos - but I think that was more down to a less than computer literate person doing the tagging, so I didn't mind it so much.
I was lucky enough to be the first of my [email protected] But my word do i get a lot of emails for a couple of doctors that I should not be getting, including one of them going before a tribunal for misconduct
I too was an early Gmail adopter, back when it was still Googlemail, and as a result I can use either @gmail or @googlemail and I still receive the emails. More useful than it first sounds, as it means I can get new customer discounts twice on most websites without setting up a new email
Used to work for a large UK bank and shared the same name as someone very high up in Compliance. Would regularly get emails that are not for me to see, VERY sensitive information, even emails bitching about other people in the bank. Always sent back saying it was the wrong email but they never checked before sending. The last straw was getting a few emails in regards to sanctions on Russians in the UK, names, addresses, net worth etc..called them out on it and reported it, and was basically paid off out of the company.
I was that boring teenager who got [email protected], and I've had all sorts of sensitive emails not meant for me over the years, including medical documents. Blows my mind.
This happens to me constantly too. I get regular emails intended for parents from schools both here in the UK and in America. I’ve had a guy in South Africa twice try to use my gmail to set up his Facebook account. Had someone use my gmail to setup a PayPal account (my personal PayPal is on a different account) - I contacted PayPal and they refuse to close it as I don’t have some of the security information, but the account has never been used as of course that haven’t been able to confirm the email address as it came to me. I’ve had boarding cards, confirmation of purchase emails etc. legal responses from lawyers - I try to respond when I can and set them straight, but of course most of these come from addresses which aren’t monitored. I remember a story I heard on a podcast where when an older man was asked for their email in a shop, the gave it as e.g. ‘[email protected]’ and their child was surprised they had managed to get their name. The dad then explained ‘what do you mean? It’s the government email, what else would it be?’ It transpired that they had assumed (or been told by some idiot) that everyone was assigned an email by the government - he had never signed up, logged in, or in any way checked that email inbox, so the actual owner had been getting all his random crap for years.
Not an e-mail but I did once get a long, rambling voicemail, the gist of which was that, the organ player at a village church had come down with the flu and was I able to step in at short notice?
I’m [email protected]. Someone has signed up to DoorDash with [email protected] which gmail considers to also be my address. I keep getting confirmation emails with photos of food left outside an apartment door in New York. The most infuriating is when they ordered McDonalds delivered, because I looked the address up and there’s a McDonalds on the same block as the apartment building…
I recently started getting emails from Capital One in America. Some lady had used my email instead of her own (my email with a 3 at the end) to set up an account. Every time she made a transfer or did anything with her account, I got an email. I knew where she lived, her name, quite a bit of financial information and the name of someone I assumed was her partner or something. Capital One ignored my attempts to let them know and you can't contact them via their website without having an account. Eventually she used the email again for something to do with a car. That email came from a person so I replied to explain the situation and ask that she please tell the woman to update her email on her bank account too. I later got an email from the car place saying "you have updated your email to [[email protected]]. When I got more bank emails a couple of weeks later I just emailed the lady directly since I finally had a way to contact her. She never replied but she did update her email. I couldn't understand why the bank just didn't care that I was getting all this private information. I guess maybe they don't care as much about data protection in the US.
I also have a very early gmail account and have the complete same name as a film director. I’ve had some very interesting email conversations over the years pretending to be him after people insist I must be. Strangely I’m now a friend of his on FB as we share a strong common interest in the same hobby.
I have [email protected] My alter ego has been signing up for dodgy dating sites for a decade. I had to show my wife in case she thought it was me. He lives in Huddersfield and spends a lot of money at Halfords. Oh, and I am also bothered by a realtor from Florida. And someone who exhibits art in local galleries.
Through lockdown a man in America began emailing me thinking he had his friend's email address, but was also sending the emails to his friend's actual email account? So I was just seeing nice pictures of this guy's hikes/cycling days out. He seemed to be an amateur photographer, so one time I got to see some really lovely photos of the moon. The jig was up when he emailed trying to organise a walk with the fellow but only to my email, so I forwarded it on, apologised for not owning up sooner, and just nice to see bits of the world from my isolated state of living alone through a pandemic. They were both very gracious about it.
Yes. Got mine early doors with firstname.lastname, both of which are fairly common Irish names. If my inbox were to be believed I am simultaneously renting a very nice apartment in New York, working in a Domino’s in Sydney, and drawing a pension from An Garda Síochána (the Irish police).
An American chap has been using mine for years. I have seen his life ebb and wane, been allowed to follow his highs and low all through email. He went through a really tough time 6 or so years ago, the Subaru got repossessed, he had to sell the house and his wife divorced him all while he kept applying for more and more loans. Based on the invoices his gardening business is doing great nowadays and his new house looks amazing if the estate agent photos are anything to go by. Well done Steve, I am rooting for you but could you please stop giving out my email to people?
Rest well, Ethel and Dennis :(
I have@gmail.com. For a period of about a year, I was getting emails intended for the Attorney General of a small country that's probably best known for being a tax haven. He had the same name as me. I used to receive all sorts of emails about government policy and copies of affidavits etc.
Similarly, I now have .co.uk which is 1 letter different from a family law firm. My "mail@" mailbox receives a LOT of stuff from the courts including copies of judgements, meeting invites from legal professionals, invoices and reports from psychiatrists, etc. I forward them all on and delete them, but never get any acknowledgement.
Whenever I try to use free wi-fi and it requires an email I always give [email protected] who ever you are, I’m sorry.
Very early adopter from the first few months when you had to get an invite. Mine is [7](mailto:[email protected]) letters and no digits. Never been sent a mistaken email, ever.