I get these constantly. They range from annoying to very sensitive personal
information (loan applications) to hearbreaking ("please come to the
hospital to say goodbye to Aunt ....") For the sensitive to heartbreaking
ones, I try to gently inform the person they have the wrong email address.
I also have a few people who constantly use my email address as their throw
away email. I have been signed up for everything from baby clothes to a
Toyota to Bank accounts (can't get in, since I still need an account
number). I've resorted to taking away accounts and/or locking them out if I
can by having a password reset sent to me and changing the passwords. (Then
again, that's how I got my Pinterest account since I simply took it away
from the woman who opened it).
My feeling is that for many of these people, its deliberate and anything
that can be done to shame them into stopping the harrassement is justified.
Sandy
-----Original Message-----
>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:59 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey
> <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> >
> > I get emails sent to me by mistake constantly. My general process
> > is to reply back and kindly inform the sender that they've reached
> > the wrong person.
> >
> > I've gotten everything from grade reports to missed appointment
> > notifications to requests for legal advise to plane reservation
> > notices
> to
> > bridge club invitations to properties for sale to baby pictures to...
> well,
> > you get the idea. Worst of all, I've actually gotten receipts and
> > subscription notices where people have entered their own email wrong.
> >
> > The one that pissed me off was when someone signed up for an Ashley
> Madison
> > account using my email address. I knew it wasn't a prank because
> > when I called they indicated a credit card was already on file (not
> > one of mine, we checked).
> >
> > Lately, I'm tempted to start a blog where I post the emails, with
> > any personal or sensitive information (such as the pictures one dude
> > emailed
> to
> > me shortly after the Anthony Weiner scandal broke) censored out
> > (black boxes). Then add my own comments... and maybe email the
> > sender with a
> link
> > back to the post.
> >
> > Name the site something like, "That Ain't Me" or "Dude, Where's My
> Email?"
> > Maybe even open it up to other unfortunate souls that are in the
> > same
> boat
> > I'm in. I'm not kidding when I say I get at least 1 of these a week.
> >
> > Before I go through this process, I'm wondering if it'd be something
> > worthwhile and if folks would find it funny or rude (read a$$-h01eish)?
> >
> > Until Later!
> > C. Hatton Humphrey
> > http://www.eastcoastconservative.com
> >
> > Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to
> > do
> some
> > smelting to find it.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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