I have first.last@gmail.com and I've had people play poker and lottery and sign up for dating websites with my e-mail address. I've also received confidential information from insurance and building construction companies.
It's hilarious.
It's hilarious.
Once I was told about "my" enlistment in the reserves of some armed service. That one I replied to and got a very polite response from someone with a little bit of rank.
The others are more mundane. Mailing lists with dirty jokes from a group of american dentist friends. School notifications from a guy in the UK. Random baby pics.
Im not sure if there are lots of people with the same name who occasionally get their mail wrong. Or a few people with the same name who constantly do. It just seems weird though. Surely if you had a non firstname.lastname@gmail address you would take extra care to add in the extra padding.
I had customers who entered an undeliverable=invalid gmail address because they were confused about who hosts their email. Used foo@hotmail.com, entered foo@gmail.com. A few years back, I wouldn’t have thought this possible.
Once I got an advanced copy of remarks the UK Prime Minister was going to make the next day at the 2008 Jeddah global energy summit.
It's bizarre. The people using "fake" gmail addresses don't seem to realize it is used by somebody else. They are lucky I'm not malicious.
Edit: mine is a first name and a number
World-class was the lady who sent me pics of herself in lingerie. Not too revealing and I deleted them immediately and replied to warn her. She nearly died of embarrassment.
I'm pretty sure there are spam lists who sign me up to products, probably for some kind of referral. I join all sorts of junk.
Compounded by Google making "first.last@" = "firstlast@"
Next Gmail account is going to be a guid.
Like none of it is spam exactly, just a lot of wrong numbers.
That was fun.
So much misdirected email. Try to sign up for something? Reset password change info to not theirs.
It's amazing what people send rather blindly.