speaking of using others' numbers, I use 867-5309* for the shopper-loyalty-card number at every retailer that asks for one (in exchange for discounts). I think that dozens of others must use this number as well, as the supermarket receipt sometimes shows totals of $10,000-20,000 per week for "my" account.
*For those born after the 1980s, the song "Jenny (867-5309)" was a hit for the band Tommy TuTone and received significant airplay. It was a catchy tune, and the phone number was the chorus. As such, it's an easy number to remember.
Gives me a self-organizing-system chuckle every time.
(Carpet/flooring company. The last four numbers are L-U-N-A, which they still use in a different number.)
I finally figured out the reason for one person who's been using my email address for all kinds of things for years: his is easy to mistake for mine when being given over the phone. We have the same gmail address except that mine is first.j.lastname@ and his is first.jay.lastname@.
So now everyone with that lastname uses this email address. I get party invitations, venmos, confidential hospital forms, tax returns, you name it.
Pretty impressive given that it launched in 2004.
> and used [email protected]. There was someone who signed up as [email protected]
That's not possible. Gmail won't let you sign up for an already in use email and they strip the dots before they check.
This is the worst kind of spam. There is someone who enters my email for all his electronic receipts. I am not sure if he's purposefully enter a "fake" email or mistyping his own. But either way, it doesn't get classified as spam. There is also no way to "unsubscribe".
I now know the guy drives a Mitsubishi which he regularly services and also shops at Target and Kmart - mainly purchasing BBQ equipment.