Yeah, I got my name when gmail was ‘invite only’ :/
It actually kinda sucks. At any given time I have between 3 and a zillion idiots around the globe who, for months or years on end, keep buying concert tickets, airline/vacation bookings, get job hits, legal firm or health-care notifications … using my email ([email protected]) instead of ([email protected]) or whatever variant they actually signed up for, since I got ‘just my name’ and they keep. forgetting. their. own. bloody. email.
And most of the time this shit is sent from a ‘[email protected]’ so I can’t even tell them they have the wrong email address. Grrrrrrr.
Same here. And the reasons you mention are exactly the reason I deleted that account a few years ago when I switched to Fastmail.
A couple of my friends are willing to put up with it, but always mention the volume of spam they deal with.
I’ve had my new email address for 6-odd years and only have one regular spam source - from a hack of an online shop - but as I used a username+shopname email alias for it, it’s easy to detect and automatically handle.
Now I use Fastmail’s “Masked Email” feature for each online account. When (not if) a site gets hacked, I just change the site to use a new masked address and block/delete the old one, and then it’s useless to scammers/spammers.
There is still a woman in the Miami area who uses my email for everything. I’ve even received her completed tax documents from her accountant and was told to “disregard” when I replied to it. It’s been over ten years. My name isn’t even Alicia.
Same, the best one was the dude who created an account with my email but his own phone number. So I text him to try and scare him with the fact that some random dude got hold of his private info. He was unfazed and replied “my nephew set it up for me, guess we’ve got the same email address”…
I’ve had someone’s emails for years, every once in a while I get a new one from the doctor or when they need to recover another account its so weird. But they use the same email but with a dot. Even their google recovery emails from another account
Yeah, I got my name when gmail was ‘invite only’ :/
It actually kinda sucks. At any given time I have between 3 and a zillion idiots around the globe who, for months or years on end, keep buying concert tickets, airline/vacation bookings, get job hits, legal firm or health-care notifications … using my email ([email protected]) instead of ([email protected]) or whatever variant they actually signed up for, since I got ‘just my name’ and they keep. forgetting. their. own. bloody. email.
And most of the time this shit is sent from a ‘[email protected]’ so I can’t even tell them they have the wrong email address. Grrrrrrr.
Same here. And the reasons you mention are exactly the reason I deleted that account a few years ago when I switched to Fastmail.
A couple of my friends are willing to put up with it, but always mention the volume of spam they deal with.
I’ve had my new email address for 6-odd years and only have one regular spam source - from a hack of an online shop - but as I used a username+shopname email alias for it, it’s easy to detect and automatically handle.
Now I use Fastmail’s “Masked Email” feature for each online account. When (not if) a site gets hacked, I just change the site to use a new masked address and block/delete the old one, and then it’s useless to scammers/spammers.
There is still a woman in the Miami area who uses my email for everything. I’ve even received her completed tax documents from her accountant and was told to “disregard” when I replied to it. It’s been over ten years. My name isn’t even Alicia.
I really hope that is not your real email
Joe Bloggs is the UK equivalent of Joe Shmoe, John Doe etc - a common placeholder name for the average person.
It was also a clothing brand.
or real name.
Or real phone
Hah, no don’t worry ;)
I never thought I’d meet the inventor of blogs!
Same, the best one was the dude who created an account with my email but his own phone number. So I text him to try and scare him with the fact that some random dude got hold of his private info. He was unfazed and replied “my nephew set it up for me, guess we’ve got the same email address”…
I’ve had someone’s emails for years, every once in a while I get a new one from the doctor or when they need to recover another account its so weird. But they use the same email but with a dot. Even their google recovery emails from another account
I recently signed up for a new email. I check the address sometimes before entering it somewhere. It’s not hard.