I have [email protected] and I get a lot of stuff meant for other people. Someone even used it to sign up for their bank, and said bank apparently didn't require verifying the email address. I don't even have that common of a name.

I'm in the [email protected] club too (common first name and very common surname) and I receive so many mistaken emails that I like to collate them to guess which homonyms are the same person.

I often see repeated attempts to create accounts without reconsidering the email address, and sometimes they succeed (I received repeated invoices for Sky and for an insurance, not to mention occasional ones).

I have [email protected] and have occasional problems with this as well, despite having a very uncommon last name.

Now imagine how bad it is for the guy with the verbatim email address `[email protected]`.

Oh wow, I'd never even considered that.

Same thing here. The worst part is when websites don't actually require an email confirmation to keep using them. In the beginning I've tried to reach out to those companies to close the accounts without accessing them but by now I've started just resetting the password and then deleting them. It's just too difficult to do the right thing.

Welcome to the club. My gmail address is [email protected] and I keep receiving occasional emails for [email protected] who is actually some kind of a senior manager in one of the major TV stations. It works the other way around as well (he receives my emails - extremely rarely, but still). We simply agreed to forward them to the right person and delete afterwards so there is no issue per se, but it's still kind of funny.

Also, my daughter has [email protected] and there is another lady with the address [email protected] (yes, a typo in her first name, duplicating one of the letters) and of course she keep receiving her emails and vice versa. Same solution - they mutually agreed to forward messages to the right person and delete them afterwards.

First world problems...