On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Smith, David <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chances are, the other person just doesn’t know their own email address. > As someone with a very common name, I get things clearly intended for other > people almost daily; end-users are sometimes silly. > > > > As someone with an UNcommon name, I still get stuff intended for other people, and sometimes for the most bizarre reasons. My favorite was the person who found that "mizmoose" was registered for Gmail, so she created "mizmoose1" - and then opened an online shop. I didn't figure out what was going on until I started getting PayPal transfers! It took me a few tries to get the other person to understand not just why I was getting her money (I refunded them all, of course) but why she should change her id. But the topper is my Yahoo id, which I've owned longer than the Gmail one. Not only do I get personal and sensitive information for other people, but years ago one family (!) dogpiled me and accused me of "hijacking and stealing" their mother's email address, to the point of not just threatening me but also filing a theft complaint to Yahoo. End-users aren't just silly. Sometimes they're just stupid.
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