Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist

Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by eridius on Sunday April 28, 2013 @03:24PM (#5622392)

I own <first initial><last name>@gmail and I routinely get email intended for other people, including flight itineraries, new account info at various sites, personal emails, and once I even received legal correspondence.

Not only has this taught me how incredibly oblivious some people are to how their email works, but it also showed me just how many companies out there are willing to sign up a random email for an account without verifying the email's ownership, including some big companies like PayPal.

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Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by bigiain on Sunday April 28, 2013 @06:55PM (#5623160)

A pedantic but important point - you do _not_ "own" [email protected] - Google owns them all.

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Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by Samuel_Michon on Sunday April 28, 2013 @10:14PM (#5623738)

So true. Also, I frown whenever I read someone ‘bought’ a domain name (when they mean they’ve registered it).

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Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by danielweber on Monday April 29, 2013 @10:34AM (#5626383)

I got that for my Bank Of America account.

If three other people tried that username, I not only got locked out of my BoA account, and had to set up a bunch of stuff again.

I have a long blog post about BoA's horrible policies I still haven't published because I work in a major financial city and might end up wanting to work for them some day, but as time goes by the odds of it getting published go way up.

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Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by joshschreuder on Sunday April 28, 2013 @07:19PM (#5623244)

This happens to me, and I wouldn't call my name common (the email that this happens to is <nickname>@gmail.com, not my <firstname>.<lastname> one though).

It does make for fun responses... I was invited to a bachelor party in Las Vegas, which I sadly had to decline on account of being halfway around the world.

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Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by jussij on Sunday April 28, 2013 @08:22PM (#5623459)

> including flight itineraries

Those are not real flight itineraries.

They are usually well crafted spam sent to anyone and everyone, designed to entice personal details like bank accounts, pin numbers and visa card numbers from unexpecting users.

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Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by eridius on Sunday April 28, 2013 @10:55PM (#5623843)

No, they're real flight itineraries. I checked. Also, they're made out to the same people who keep misusing my address.

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Re:Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist by stephen_g on Sunday April 28, 2013 @11:17PM (#5623887)

I have a few other people's bank accounts from foreign countries (mainly the US) emailing me. I really couldn't believe that banks have no email verification at all...

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