On 4 March 2013 17:25, Imran Chaudhry <ichaud...@gmail.com> wrote: > As subject, I have been getting someones else's email on my Gmail > address for some years now. I put this down not only to PEBKAC but > also to GMail ignoring the "." in email addresses. > > I have managed to curtail a lot of these after recently getting in > touch with the car dealer who was sending me emails about "my brand > new BMW". He managed to get in touch with the miscreant - who seems to > be another "ichaudhry" in Canada. I think it also helped that I > mentioned the sensitive mails from Chase Manhattan bank, new baby > advice newsletters, medical conferences (the other ichaudhry seems to > be some hotshot surgeon) and suchlike I was getting on his behalf. > > Honestly, here in 2013 you would think websites and businesses had > figured out how to verify ownership of email addresses but not so. > > However the final straw is that I'm now getting his pizza delivery > orders (also from Canada) and I thought it's now time to do something > about it. > > Has anyone else been in this situation and what did they do to counter > it? I'm kind of hesitant to contact Google as I perceive no conduit > for regular users to complain unless you're a paying customer (eg. > Google Apps for Business). >
Same thing happens to everyone at some time. I keep getting invited to some social group meetings at some university in the USA. They simply mistype the email address and it gets to you instead. Nothing you can do about it, except try to contact the person and ask them to stop making mistakes in future. I just put them in the junk folder and move on. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
