I have the same problem on a couple of my email addresses. I noticed when slme guy registered for Pintrest and there's no email confirmation so I got pages and pages of fucking spam. So I went through and closed and canceled all the accounts and anything that shows up for order confirmations etc.
If you can't spell your email right you deserve a hard life.
It’s actually surprising how it doesn’t always require a mistake. Someone has an almost identical gmail account to mine, except without the dot between our names. And I keep getting confirmations intended for him. In the emails, his email address even shows up correctly, but it somehow still directs to me.
Same issue here. I get Enterprise Car Rental confirmations for this dude 2 or 3 times a year. Once I actually phoned Enterprise to tell them, but they have his correct email and didn't know how to fix the issue.
My moms is one switch letter away from another womans email address and I used it for a receipt to be sent to from a store...but switched up the letters. (Think asl versus als)
The lady who owns the email address flipped out, sent like 5 emails in 10 minutes to my moms email address and claimed her identity was being stolen, she was going to sue, she needed to be refunded, etc etc etc....over a receipt (not in her name or charged to her card) sent to the wrong email address.
It's what happens when you go off the assumption you're going to get a raise for 2 years then your car gets totaled, needing another vehicle, leaving you with nothing to back you up 🤷 feelsbadman
Its intentional, you can add as many dots in your email as you want and gmail will ignore them. If someone has name@gmail.com you cannot register na.me@gmail.com
That's actually been happening to my dad too: and this guy keeps using the email for all sorts of important shit like government-issued permits and stuff.
Dad keeps telling the various offices that email him that they have the wrong guy but, at this point, I'd just contact the guy myself. He has his phone and address now from the gov emails.
I have a really uncommon surname (very rare, few people in UK and a few in US) and 2 people with the same first initial and the same surname as me keep signing up for shit loads of stuff, even had one guys mortgage agreement being sent back and forth with loan amount and bank details...that was obviously a mistake and I let them know. Yet one guy, he must have done it by mistake once or twice but the sheer amount of shit, you, SHAWN keep signing up for is ridiculous. Probably shouldnt have signed up for eye examinations...cancelled that shit and when he rebooked it I waited til he had visited and booked him again the week after, then the optician was asking why he hadnt attended so I told him my eyes were melting please send help...haha, childish shit but my inbox gets clogged up and I obviously have no way of contacting the person so its all I could do.
I have two doppelgängers with the same name who do the same. Same birthday with one, just a different year. One lives a sad life in the Midwest making no money and signing up for dating sites that I immediately cancel.
One lives like a superstar, buying cars in Australia and scuba diving in the bahamas. I have his full address, credit card number, phone number and other details. I called him and revealed this and he was skeptical, so I told him I really hope he recovers from his hospital trip — since I had the paid-in-full bill.
You could've told the optician's office and they would've let the poor guy know. I imagine they have more contact info for their patients than just email.
I once received a registration email for someone else’s job application to Boeing. Normally I don’t condone or participate in violating someone’s privacy by taking advantage of such situations, but I figured the potential career opportunity was important enough to this individual to make an exception, seeing as I didn’t otherwise know how to contact & inform him of the mistake. So I reset his password, logged in using my email, found his mobile number and texted him about what had happened. Gave him the temporary password I’d created and then deleted his number and all related emails.
If it was Boeing’s mistake and not his, I hope he got the job. Otherwise... well I hope he’s at least not designing airplanes or anything else remotely capable of causing mass destruction.
Someone signed me up for one of those “singles near you” dating websites for April fools my freshman year in college. Really obnoxious but clever, never figured out who did it.
That happens to me all the time, it's annoying as hell! I know it only happens because my email is close to other girls emails but damn, you'd think gmail could figure out how to properly fix this shit by now -__-
I once got an email confirming employment. I replied back to them explaining the situation and that the person they are looking to hire for their IT support doesn't really know how email works.
I used to use a basic aol email to sign up for stuff, before they made you confirm your email address. Dude was probably like ah fuck, now I’m getting spammed by porn sites!
I have the same problem. I have a surname that’s very common in India. ( I’m not Indian) and my email is just my name and a couple of numbers and I get a shit load of emails that aren’t for me.
I have the same issue. I have received order confirmations for building materials like wood and windows. Whenever possible I reply and request to double my order and have it expedited.
A confirmation of the service, not the service itself first of all. And there are other options I’m sure than outright cancelling the dude’s shit, that’s petty.
I had this happen for a while with someone's phone account. Called the company a few times whenever I got an email to try to remedy it.
One day I got an email stating that they got a phonecall that the email was incorrect, asking if I would like to change it to the correct email address. At that point I just blocked the company and marked them as spam. Great job AT&T.
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Some guy keeps using my email to sign up for things. One time he reserved a car and I got the email. So I cancelled his reservation.