This is the worst kind of spam. There is someone who enters my email for all his electronic receipts. I am not sure if he's purposefully enter a "fake" email or mistyping his own. But either way, it doesn't get classified as spam. There is also no way to "unsubscribe".
I now know the guy drives a Mitsubishi which he regularly services and also shops at Target and Kmart - mainly purchasing BBQ equipment.
speaking of using others' numbers, I use 867-5309* for the shopper-loyalty-card number at every retailer that asks for one (in exchange for discounts). I think that dozens of others must use this number as well, as the supermarket receipt sometimes shows totals of $10,000-20,000 per week for "my" account.
*For those born after the 1980s, the song "Jenny (867-5309)" was a hit for the band Tommy TuTone and received significant airplay. It was a catchy tune, and the phone number was the chorus. As such, it's an easy number to remember.
Gives me a self-organizing-system chuckle every time.
(Carpet/flooring company. The last four numbers are L-U-N-A, which they still use in a different number.)
I finally figured out the reason for one person who's been using my email address for all kinds of things for years: his is easy to mistake for mine when being given over the phone. We have the same gmail address except that mine is first.j.lastname@ and his is first.jay.lastname@.
So now everyone with that lastname uses this email address. I get party invitations, venmos, confidential hospital forms, tax returns, you name it.
Pretty impressive given that it launched in 2004.
> and used first.last@gmail.com. There was someone who signed up as firstlast@gmail.com
That's not possible. Gmail won't let you sign up for an already in use email and they strip the dots before they check.