SOmeone Using my Email Address

I wonder if sites out there remove the .'s from emails automatically so half the people enter the email correct and it ends up somewhere else.
 
Etheco said:
I wonder if sites out there remove the .'s from emails automatically so half the people enter the email correct and it ends up somewhere else.
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it doesn't matter with gmail if it does or not x.x.x@gmail . com would be the same as xxx@gmail . com and xx.x@gmail . com and x.xx@gmail . com, it all goes to the same inbox.
 
PlumpMonkey said:
I had some American woman keep emailing me instead of her husband. I tried a few times to tell her its the wrong address but she persisted in emailing me.I then started receiving emails from her to her husband to the same email address (mine) asking why someone is saying this is the wrong email address... errr... She didnt seem the sharpest tool in the box.
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I had this more or less from some silly bint in York who has bought a load of gym gear on her credit card and used .co.uk instead of .whatever-it-should-have-been so I got a full invoice sent to my catch all including her full name and CC details.

I contacted her to tell her she needed to update the details with the company and she went off on one about how they had owned that email address for years and years, she even accused me of stealing it from them lol (its been in my name since about 2001). Totally clueless she was so I emailed the gym company back and asked them to remove my email from their records.

I have another one who has used another domain I own with T-Mobile and I was getting bombarded with promotions. T-Mobile wouldn't remove it as it wasn't my account or some nonsense but they gave me an internal email to forward one to them so they could see the recipients name or some rubbish, needless everything they send to this bloke gets forwarded to this internal email address to this day.

Idiots everywhere!
 
MissChief said:
I have [email protected] which, of course, has that weird system where it basically ignores any full stops in the name. Pizza from Florida, mobile bills for someone in Glasgow and a university Professor from South Africa who has a VERY healthy stock portfolio!
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similarly I have [email protected]

I get the same issue... though most of the time they've tried [email protected]... and of course when I e-mail back they then try [email protected]... and I e-mail back again

some moron has probably registered an easily confused address with a 1 in place of an i or something

one guy even mistyped his e-mail address when registering - his email address starts with 'avid' instead of 'david' so he not only signed up to a bunch of websites for me but everyone he gives his address to now thinks he has typed/written it incorrectly and decides to 'correct' it by e-mailing me... have even had people who he has e-mailed from [email protected] who then 'correct' the email address after pressing reply

why he doesn't just use a different address now is beyond me
 
div0 said:
No you don't. Well technically you do....but the dot is irrelevant.

You actually have:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Are all the same. It is not possible for one person to have [email protected] and another to have [email protected]. Once one is registered, all of the other combinations are also taken by that person.

At least for any gmail account, that is.
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no, that is the address I'm registered with: [email protected]

and if you read my post properly you'll see that I already know about the dots
 
In 2012, I 'apparently' treated myself to a new iPhone from the O2 shop, except that the invoice had a London address on it (I live in Stafford). I cancelled my debit and credit cards thinking it was fraud, only for O2 to turn around a few days later saying that they've typo'd the customer's email address so that it matched mine.

I've already had to stump out nearly £400 in boiler repairs, and both desktop and laptop packed up in the same month, so the O2 / iPhone email wasn't of best timing :mad:
 
Not sure why you cancelled your cards, O2 wouldn't have been able to get your email address from them to send an invoice to! But easy said in hindsight.
 
Had this recently myself. Had a confirmation of account setup for enterprise car hire and then a confirmation of hire date from an airport. No money left my account or anything so I just assumed someone entered the wrong email address or something.
 
I often get emails for someone in Florida using [email protected]

I registered with a dot in mine back in 2005.

I wonder if when gmail initially launched it did distinguish between those with a dot and not. Then of course a load of googlemail.com addresses were switched to gmail.

Something is certainly going wrong somewhere.
 
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