Re:*@gmail.com
by brotherjerky on Thursday August 31, 2023 @09:52AM
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I have my last name at Gmail, and the number of people who think it's their email is absurd
probably has two email accounts, on with firstnamelastname and the other with @gmail.com, and keeps mixing them up
Re:*@gmail.com
by dinkleberg on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:06AM
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Yeah that does seem likely
Re:*@gmail.com
by marcosdumay on Thursday August 31, 2023 @10:43AM
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I always wondered if those people don't notice something is broken.
Given how reliably this happens, I guess the answer is "no". It's also probably a very small number of people, just 1 or 2 with each commonly used name. But still every common name has those 1 or 2.
Re:*@gmail.com
by AnonCoward42 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @10:57AM
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I wonder if this could be intentional for identity theft or registering an account without using your own mail. Consistently forgetting one's e-mail is a bit weird, but makes sense too of course.
Re:*@gmail.com
by davidkassa on Friday September 01, 2023 @10:05AM
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My email doppelganger tried signing up for something recently, so I just went to the site and put in his email address so he can click the link and sign-up.
Re:*@gmail.com
by davidkassa on Friday September 01, 2023 @10:03AM
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I have the same problem. The other guy owns a grocery store in Michigan and some of the stuff I get is wild - invoices, Azure professional services, hotels.com. I'm nice 1 or 2x if it looks important then comes the spam button.
It is quite the odd situation. I reply to their friends saying they have the wrong email, but they don’t seem to believe me. And they keep signing up for things despite presumably never being able to actually access many of these services that require email verification.
My guess is it is someone not very computer literate. But it is always amusing.