someone using my gmail account, they've got a package arriving, Wat Do?
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Seeing as your phone remembers your email on forms etc, if you type it in wrong and save it you can guess what happens on other forms!
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Send the parcel to the drop off 3 miles away. That's enough to be annoying 
I had this recently with a chap from Southampton who kept booking squash courts in the evening. I kept ringing the gym and cancelling them. He did get the message eventually.
I had this recently with a chap from Southampton who kept booking squash courts in the evening. I kept ringing the gym and cancelling them. He did get the message eventually.
I'd say if you've previously told this guy he's been typing his email address incorrectly and it hasn't stopped then you don't owe him any more of your time to try and sort out his mistakes - you aren't his PA. So if you want to screw with his parcel delivery then go for it.
I have the same on my BT internet address - I get emails from Gyms - hotels - telling me what is on - got one from a famous channel 4 presenter - had some from hospitals - loads and loads - If I can I reply to them asking if they can ring the person they want and confirm email address - One that annoyed me was a Swiss Hotel so changed his password - All have the same name as me.
I got into a conversation with my email twins mother and told her - she sent me pictures of her garden in Worcestershire. - sometimes it brightens up my day
I got into a conversation with my email twins mother and told her - she sent me pictures of her garden in Worcestershire. - sometimes it brightens up my day
I think there's a problem with gmail or some routing somewhere that doesn't understand the dots. I've been having the same problem with emails for a guy in Florida for years. I've got [email protected], he's got [email protected] and some emails sent to that address just appear in my inbox with the wrong recipient address.
I quite regularly get all his spam mail from the democratic party, and flight and cruise tickets sent to my inbox. Nothing juicy unfortunately.
correct it won't, gmail doesn't recognise the dots ergo both those addresses are the same
he hasn't you're just mistaken, gmail ignores the dots.
He's probably got [email protected] or something and forgot to add the number or perhaps, worse still, he's changed an "l" to a "1" or something
your address without the dots is still your address (which is why you're receiving the e-mails!), gmail will route mail sent to your address with any combination of dots to your inbox, if you don't believe me then just try it for yourself
I'm not mistaken. I'm pretty sure we've had this discussion before, probably a couple of years ago. There are two separate accounts. Somehow. I can't explain how if what you say is true. Perhaps one was originally setup as googlemail, the other as gmail. Who knows?
I don't get everything, just some random emails. I've got the email chains to prove it when I got the fifth email from his lawyer in a chain. As a test I've managed to reset passwords for innocuous accounts I've had emails for. I've never had the please verify your newly registered account originally. I've reset the password, and a couple of days later they've been changed and stopped working again . Not by me, and no notifications.
What's the basis for your assertion that gmail ignore the dots and won't allow separate accounts with and without dots to be created? I'm all ears if there's a knowledge base article somewhere I can log a support case with to get it cleared up.
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Pics of the mum?...am.....am I doing this right?
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This is all sounding familiar now. I have a firstname.lastname email address as well.
5 years ago, I had an email from O2 to say that my new iPhone is on its way. I've never had iPhones, so this was a red flag for me - some sort of fraud. I was set up with 2FA though, so not sure how they got into my email. I went to my nearest O2 branch to show their salesman in person. He made a few phone calls for me, and it turned out that someone from London had typo'd their email so that it matched mine so that it was me who got the order note. So wasn't fraud, just someone who needs to learn2internet.
5 years ago, I had an email from O2 to say that my new iPhone is on its way. I've never had iPhones, so this was a red flag for me - some sort of fraud. I was set up with 2FA though, so not sure how they got into my email. I went to my nearest O2 branch to show their salesman in person. He made a few phone calls for me, and it turned out that someone from London had typo'd their email so that it matched mine so that it was me who got the order note. So wasn't fraud, just someone who needs to learn2internet.
I get this all the time, i tend to use [email protected], if I log in using [email protected] it goes to my account. I have had my Google account since the early days.
Except for me its just not one person and they all input [email protected] For that reason I think it is people not inputting the correct address. Or inputting the incorrect address on purpose to avoid getting spam.
There is a guy in the US military that inputs my account, I have seen lots of his family pictures and even some expense reports.
Someone 'down under' that uses it, I used to get his toll statements, river boat statements and a few other bits. The oddest one was a quote for a tattoo off the back of a webform he filled in.
Then there is someone up north, I got his O2 emails (i phoned these and got me removed and made sure it was not fraud), his insurance industry publications and his Domino's receipts.
Google is working as intended and there is no second account because I have tested it with web forms putting my address using [email protected]. The emails come to me every time. I have also tried putting in random '.''s all over and again they always come to me.
Except for me its just not one person and they all input [email protected] For that reason I think it is people not inputting the correct address. Or inputting the incorrect address on purpose to avoid getting spam.
There is a guy in the US military that inputs my account, I have seen lots of his family pictures and even some expense reports.
Someone 'down under' that uses it, I used to get his toll statements, river boat statements and a few other bits. The oddest one was a quote for a tattoo off the back of a webform he filled in.
Then there is someone up north, I got his O2 emails (i phoned these and got me removed and made sure it was not fraud), his insurance industry publications and his Domino's receipts.
Google is working as intended and there is no second account because I have tested it with web forms putting my address using [email protected]. The emails come to me every time. I have also tried putting in random '.''s all over and again they always come to me.
A guy in Australia uses my email all year round. I cancelled his pizzas three orders running and he stopped.
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I get loads in my Gmail for other people, including airline tickets, banking statements, funeral services etc
In the past I've tried to pass them on where possible, but I got fed up in the end and just ignore them now.
In the past I've tried to pass them on where possible, but I got fed up in the end and just ignore them now.
Nope it does and that’s how stupid it is.
I know you're wrong/mistaken and you can test it yourself if you don't believe me, I suggested this in the previous post. If we'd have this conversation before then why not test it instead of stubbornly believing something that is both false and easily testable?
My basis for the assertion is this is how gmail works! I have a gmail account myself and I am already aware that gmail ignores the dots because this is one of the first thing some people get confused by when they get the wrong e-mail address (usually they send a mail to my address without the dot and then assume from my reply that there was some technical issue rather than a mistake by them because my reply address includes a dot).
You don't need a support ticket - there isn't a technical issue here, you can confirm this for yourself by doing what I already suggested.
here it is from google themselves:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en
I don't really know what else to suggest aside from, instead of replying and trying to argue over this could you actually take up my suggestion and try for yourself please?
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no it doesn't - again this has been mentioned a few times in the thread now, I really don't know why people aren't grasping it - gmail ignores the dots, any combo of dots belongs to the same account - you can't therefore have two accounts with a different combination of dots
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