How did the man in the photo shop know my email address?

[Aiionwatha]

I went to get my baby's passport photo taken in a shop that does various photo services. I didn't book, just walked in.

When I was typing my email address in on the screen (to receive the digital files), I missed a letter off the end of my name. The man (who was evidently from a foreign country and had english as his second language) said I had missed a letter. Now, my name also works as a name without the last letter, but it's less common that way, so I presumed he just guessed that my name was the version with this extra letter.

After my name comes a number in my email address. When typing, I also missed the second digit of said number. The man said "you missed a number - it's 3 isn't it?"

Now, how did he know that the number was 3?!

Is the shop part of a chain? Or a wider organisation where you may have used one of the alternate shops? Did you give your name first? If so it would have triggered a lot of info to come up such as email.

If it was a tiny one man shop with no links to anyone then its very freaky

sorry I misread! Been a long day following a sleepless night with the baby.

I'm sure I am overthinking it... but it's still a little uncanny

it didn't automatically come up - I was the one typing it in and would have seen if there was a dropdown list

It is part of a chain, but there was no opportunity for my information to come up. I walked into the shop, asked if they could do a photo of my baby, they took the photo, asked me to type my email address, and as I was typing he guessed the number.

no it was just a 2 digit number.. :/