Re:It's Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian
by macintux on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:53PM
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I’ve made a few online “acquaintances” over the years as I’ve figured out the real email addresses for the people for whom I receive email at iCloud. We check in each time I forward something to them.
Re:It's Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian
by rft on Saturday November 11, 2023 @07:16PM
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It can be fun to figure out how to contact your “acquaintances” the first time this happens. You can't really email them, can you?
I had it when someone (or likely his partner) with the same (somewhat uncommon!) [email protected] used my email. I started digging and it turned out we both were/are PhD students, just totally different fields. Must have something to do with the name. I was happy that via the faculty site I found his "real" email. Nearly send him a really weird post card, I had only his postal address...
Re:It's Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian
by macintux on Saturday November 11, 2023 @09:30PM
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It wasn't as hard as I expected. In one case, I found her last name on an email and it had an additional letter, so I just modified the address to match her name (we were both first initial/last name).
In the other case I must have simply experimented with first initial/middle initial/last name, and that worked.
One is a minister in the Boston area, so it's not hard to recognize her inbound emails.
I regularly get reminders for dental visits in Oklahoma, purchase orders for machinery in Germany, and course registrations for some person who works in my industry and was easily searchable online.
It is not so intrusive to be problematic, and is mildly interesting.