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It's impossible to receive email for someone else as Gmail blocks as unavailable all dot-added usernames when you signup for an account.

E.g.: if you create abcdef@gmail.com, then a.bcdef@gmail.com , ab.cdef@gmail.com and so on become unavailable and are directed to your main account.

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Ah, the sender of the email is at fault or the person gave them the wrong email address!!!

Not true. I have a "john.doe@gmail.com" account that is quite old and in the past year someone created the same account without the dot (johndoe@gmail.com), or at least started using it in the past year. I get email from one of their senders, or a copy I presume, to this day!

More likely: someone typo'd johndoe's address.

somebody thinks they have johndoe@gmail but they actually have johndoe1@gmail or johnpdoe@gmail or something like that.

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