When this happened to me (being inadvertently signed up for dating sites), I reset their password and changed all of their profile fields to "I don't know my own email address." before closing them.
I fully blame companies who allow accounts to be created without validating the user's email address. AT&T is particularly horrible about this. I have spent literally hours trying to get them to remove my address from other people's mobile phone accounts. They clearly have a major flaw in their system, because they keep assuring me they have fixed it, until I get the next notice. > On Jan 28, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Dana Quinn <dqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 on this comment - I am always getting other people's email. It's really > awesome when the other dquinn's in the world sign up for all sorts of dating > services, and then use the wrong address. I leave my gmail account up on our > home computer, and my wife was "nonplussed" to see all these notifications > coming through. And yikes - it's been years since I've dated, there are a > lot of weird dating sites now. > >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Smith, David <desm...@wustl.edu> wrote: >> Chances are, the other person just doesn’t know their own email address. As >> someone with a very common name, I get things clearly intended for other >> people almost daily; end-users are sometimes silly. >> >> >> >> David Smith >> >> >> >> >> >> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org >> [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Crocker, Deborah >> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:25 AM >> To: Lopsa Discussion >> Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Help with gmail technical problem >> >> >> >> So, why did they allow both accounts to be created? These are duplicate >> accounts. Or maybe they didn’t and this other person just thinks that is >> their account? They sure have used it in some sensitive places. >> >> >> >> -- >> *********************************************************************** >> Deborah Crocker, Ph.D. >> deborah.croc...@ua.edu >> Systems Engineer III >> http://bama.ua.edu/~crock >> Office of Information Technology >> 205-348-3758 >> University of Alabama >> Fax: 205-348-3993 >> Box 870346 >> Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 >> >> >> >> From: Smith, David [mailto:desm...@wustl.edu] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:35 AM >> To: Crocker, Deborah; Lopsa Discussion >> Subject: RE: Help with gmail technical problem >> >> >> >> This is a feature, as far as Gmail is concerned. Firstnamelastname, >> firstname.lastname, and fir.stna.me.l.a.s.t.na.me are all the same – they >> implicitly strip periods from their addresses. You can use this for things >> like subtle sender tracking (put the period in different places for >> different senders, so you can see who’s selling your address to spammers). >> >> >> >> David Smith >> >> >> >> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org >> [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Crocker, Deborah >> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 8:18 AM >> To: Lopsa Discussion >> Subject: [lopsa-discuss] Help with gmail technical problem >> >> >> >> I’ve got a problem with getting another persons gmail. I am >> firstname.lastn...@gmail.com and I occasionally get email to >> firstnamelastn...@gmail.com but this is different person. I discovered it >> with a Vendor rewards account where I got an update and logged (had to >> recover a password, hmmm) and found stuff I didn’t recognize. Searched >> through a bit more and found a name and city. Person actually lives 60 miles >> down the road. Then realized it wasn’t my email address. So I called the >> vendor and the problem seemed to get sorted out. But it continues with other >> vendors. I started getting facebook friend suggests for people I have no >> clue about. Sure enough at the bottom of the email it says it was sent to >> firstnamelastn...@gmail.com. Recently got from another vendor, one which I’m >> pretty sure the original enrollee would need to get. I don’t get email all >> the time for this person (no messages from other persons). The errant >> messages all say they were sent to firstnamelastn...@gmail.com. >> >> >> >> So is it the vendors or gmail? I could see some company dropping my “.” and >> sending my email to the other person, but why this way? Can guarantee the >> gmail online help center doesn’t cover this one. >> >> >> >> Thanks for any help >> >> >> >> D. Crocker >> >> >> >> -- >> *********************************************************************** >> Deborah Crocker, Ph.D. >> deborah.croc...@ua.edu >> Systems Engineer III >> http://bama.ua.edu/~crock >> Office of Information Technology >> 205-348-3758 >> University of Alabama >> Fax: 205-348-3993 >> Box 870346 >> Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.lopsa.org >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ > > > > -- > Dana Quinn > da...@pobox.com > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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