I have this same weird problem. Fifteen years ago when I was in college, my friends gave me a nickname, which was a combination of an obscure movie and obscure song title and my first name. As near as I could tell, this was a completely new word. A search for the nickname revealed nothing, I was able to register [email protected] (when Gmail came along), and nickname.com/.net/org. I registered AIM accounts, Yahoo accounts, ICQ accounts all with that name. Everything I did online was that moniker, and I was the only person using it as near as I could tell.

Since then, other people have either come in contact with it or arrived at the same conclusion, and now I get e-mails for [email protected] in particular one individual-- I get business e-mails for him (he seems to be a graphic designer), he registered his Netflix account under my e-mail (which I promptly closed). For years I got his power bills electronically, as well as other spammy ephemera that's directed at him.

I am not being hacked. Nobody is using my CC information or accessing my e-mail. I cannot for the life of me figure out what chain of incompetency has lead to me repeatedly getting this individuals personal e-mails.