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Firstly I apologise if this is in the wrong section but I wasn’t really sure what section to post this is.
The past few weeks I have been getting a few emails that are obviously intended for someone else, his email address has the following format, [email protected] where as mine is [email protected] I am guessing that he is also receiving messages intended for me which is quite worrying as I have requested passwords recently for an account I had lost. I made my account quite some time ago, long before it changed from gmail.com to googlemail.com.
So I checked Google help and found the following
The past few weeks I have been getting a few emails that are obviously intended for someone else, his email address has the following format, [email protected] where as mine is [email protected] I am guessing that he is also receiving messages intended for me which is quite worrying as I have requested passwords recently for an account I had lost. I made my account quite some time ago, long before it changed from gmail.com to googlemail.com.
So I checked Google help and found the following
Right, so I understand that the dot does not make a different in the email format but surely if Google are going to operate on that rule they shouldn’t allow other users to create accounts that could have the same address as existing Gmail users. I’ve been searching through the Gmail help trying to find a direct way of contacting them but so far I haven’t found anything. I emailed the guy today but not heard back from him yet, what do you guys think I should do?
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