The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by samstave on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:57AM (#24361454)

Over a decade ago, I was added to a Sri Lanken family tree thing on Ancestry - because they invited my email address, as we have the same last name (my last name though is Norwegian, and the same as this sri lanken family.

I still get updates in my email from this family and even had bank statement updates sent to me. and birthday wishes mean for the other sstave...

I have told them multiple times - but I am still on their family tree - for a DECADE

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by themaninthedark on Thursday September 03, 2020 @09:26AM (#24363806)

Of course they won't let you go, your family now!

I have Firstname.Lastname@gmail but I never get any mistaken mail there.

Now text messages on the other hand... I get all sorts, at one point I was getting some for a Black Gun group. Now I am getting them from the DNC but they are address to the wrong name.

The scarier thing is two factor authorization text messages, I remember getting some for Facebook and Instagram. I never did anything with them but if not set up right I suppose I could get into someone else's account.

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by samstave on Friday September 04, 2020 @03:38AM (#24372648)

I love getting unknown sender random texts. I play a game with myself to see how long I can keep them responding.

One time I got a wrong number and over the next few days coached a lady who was calling her friend for advice on her upcoming job interview, as she wasnt sure she wanted to make that career change.

I did the best I could to advise on the matter (sincerely) - but I never got a reply on the matter.

I always delete the message immediately after so the thread isnt there so I have no way of initiating a connection.

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