I'm in a similar situation. I was lucky enough to claim my Gmail address during the beta.

For the first few years I tried to be kind and alert the sender, but it just became impractical to do so.

It breaks my heart when I see my name twin receiving state benefit notifications or HR notices at the wrong address. He's currently applying for quite a few electrician openings. Good luck, my man.

Happens to me all the time, because my name is fairly common. Weird that Google wont "fix" that.

I ... hope Google never tries to fix your name being fairly common.

Out of curiosity, what would a "fix" look like?

Never showing the email address to anyone, just letting you scan a QR code, or copy-paste a rich-text non-editable widget and passing it around. It is the same idea as not showing the URL in the address bar, it solves 1 major problem and raises dozen others.

Happens all the time to me. Some of my fellow [first-initial][last-names] are "smart" people -- a professor and a judge, among others -- and I know that they are putting in their own email wrong.

I know this because I'm frequently getting mail from automated systems for something they filled out.

I mean, I know there's an xkcd about this, but seriously? How do you mistype your own email address so often? In both cases, their real addresses are [first-name][last-name].

Probably due to their workplaces using different schemes

e.g. My personal is [firstname].[lastname] and work is [firstinitial][lastname]

If I didn’t use macros I’m sure I’d eventually mix them up too.