E-mail address annoyance - WWYD

Had a reply from ‘me’ asking for an example e-mail I’ve had meant for him :D

Edit - did a google and the dot does matter for my provider. So he must be forgetting the dot.
 
I never looked back once I'd went to having my own domain name..

I lucked in and have a free GSUITE account so effectively all email is managed via the GMAIL platform, but you can get similar for £1 a month from places like 1and1 (who will give you a free domain name as well).
 
Someone used my firstname.lastname email address to buy an iPhone from O2 in my name. I thought it was some kind of fraud and O2 told me to cancel any cards that I had. 2 days later, O2 phoned back to say it was a user error and the iPhone buyer typed my email address by mistake. It was a pain because I was without bank cards for a week while I waited for new ones to arrive.

Unseul said:
Similar theme, the old student house I lived in clearly ended up with the same phone number that was once used by a branch of abbey national. Had people calling up thinking it was the bank. Had one woman call about 4 times, one after the other, insisting it was the bank, decided after the last one that if she called again I'd ask for all her details. She didn't call again though.
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Not as funny as yours, but my tech support line was obviously a pensions helpline previously. Used to get calls asking about pensions even though I said I was a tech. Took a few years for it to stop.

In a different workplace, I worked in customer services and I had a similar mix-up there where people were asking for social services! That went on for a couple of years too.
 
robj20 said:
Thank god Gmail ignores full stops.
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That’s been the corker for me...

Bloke with sausage fingers, and people he’s in contact with, also with sausage fingers: he was involved with Olympic shooting teams, bought and sold various houses, tried to buy TVR (the company, not just a car) among other things. Had some juicy stuff over the years, and just end up forwarding whatever turns up, and correcting the sender.
 
I own the domain of a street name where my parents live and we had some chap try to use [email protected] to sign up to T-Mobile. We were getting a lot of emails for him including a couple of hundred pounds worth of gym gear order confirmation. T-Mobile were incredibly unhelpful but they did provide me with an internal email CS because they wanted to see proof. They came back and said there was nothing they could do so I set up a forward at the domain and now all of his emails go to T-Mobile lol.

The gym order I reset his password, logged in and cancelled it. He will have had to make a new account to reorder
 
I have someone that likes to use my email address as they forget theirs has a bunch of numbers at the end.

The most impressive use was on their business cards, sigh.
 
Had it happen for awhile - apparently I was buying flowers and cosmetics somewhere in Brazil and getting plastic surgery or something like that in Peru amongst other things - weirdly 9/10th of it was in English but someone living in South America and with a South American style name.
 
Same thing here, my gmail has a dot between first and last names.

A few years ago I got sent some legal documentation from a real estate firm in California, from their Vice President. It was addressed to the same gmail as mine except the dot was absent, and the content stated that time was critical on a property deal (it was over $700k).

I contacted this VP telling him that his client probably hasn't received his email due to the dot thing.

About an hour later I got the same email documents sent to me again....:rolleyes:
 
Following, want to see where this goes, if anywhere... :p

My email address is my firstname and a load of numbers so I've not had anything like this happen, though my lastname is very uncommon anyway.
 
i get the odd random email to my gmail where someone appears to have the same name as me but no dot in the address. Given I have the forename.surname gmail I wonder what address he must have. Doesn't make sense to me. Still I get from time to time, job offers (as in invites to quote/tender for a contract), design drawings, invoice details etc. At first I used to try and let the senders know. After several times I just gave up. I figure when he doesn't get paid etc he'll chase it up. Also using your gmail for that kind of stuff? Get a work account FFS! Jolly confusing as we appear to work in similar industries and the first time I got a set of designs it took me a good half hour to realise they were nothing to do with one of my actual projects.
 
Yep Gmail has a lot to answer for ignoring that dot.

I've had several people's emails over the last 10 years. I've even had $100s paid in to my PayPal cos of incorrect email. I've had access to someone American cable TV account, a Sony ps4 account, car servicing in America and a bunch of jugglers from Ireland.

Every time I check the email name it's always using [email protected] with no dot and my account has the dot between the 2 names.
 
Dirk Diggler said:
The dot is invisible to Gmail, it's more likely to be a misspelled name.
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That is actually quite a mistake and not in compliance surely. What about sub domains? Domain Atkins.com then sub domain tommy.Atkins.com. That is how www is designed. Also the OP may be getting someone else's mail but that someone else is probably getting his as well. What a Google ******.
 
I don't think so though. I've always replied to the sender and told them of their mistake but I've never had it reciprocated back. More then likely cos I don't put the wrong email address in ever.
 
Hagar said:
That is actually quite a mistake and not in compliance surely. What about sub domains? Domain Atkins.com then sub domain tommy.Atkins.com. That is how www is designed. Also the OP may be getting someone else's mail but that someone else is probably getting his as well. What a Google ******.
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Email works differently from sub domains, the dots in email are there for convenience to separate words without affecting the actual address. The same goes for upper and lower case.

[email protected]
[email protected]

Both go to the same place.
 
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