To send a 'blind' email to this person?

[dwpanxt]

I have a simple email address which I use for freecycle etc. Its a shortened version of my name which I was lucky enough to get when gmail was still relatively new.

Recently I have been getting all kinds of emails -confirmation of bookings ,orders etc. which are not mine.

At first I wasn't too bothered as often people have email addresses that they dont really use or have copied wrongly just one time. However these emails are now growing in number so Im getting more anxious that the woman they are intended for will miss out on something important.There have been round robin type emails from a local political party for example.

There is an address on one confirmation email . The address is in Ireland ,County Tipperary to be exact, and even includes a phone number(I think its a phone number anyway-not familiar with Southern Irish telephone numbers).

I have toyed with trying to contact the person by letter or phone but just know that I will leave it and leave it as I hate starting this type of contact. I am fine with emailing though as its less formal.

The problem is ...how do I get the email to her?Should I just do all sorts of variations on the name and hope that one of the recipients is her?

And how to word such an email so that it doesnt sound like its from some mad woman.

I'm doing a bit of googling and apparently google does not recognise periods in email addresses.

So if you registered as [email protected] you also automatically own [email protected]

Issues may occur if someone else is e.g dr. [email protected] as that could be very easily mispelt.

I'm fairly certain google is not sending you someone elses email. Someone else has an email address similar to yours and people keep getting the address wrong.

Some of the emails, may just be spam as well.

how very odd

Gmail states that if you set up an account [email protected] the email address [email protected] also belongs to you - it ignores punctation.

It's s bit mad alright! We don't share the same initial dwpanxt, so it's not my email address! :)

There the kind of emails I'm getting, to a first name.lastname@....

this happened to me too!!!!!

i have [email protected]

and i keep getting e-mails that are to someone with the same name, but without the full stop between them

i freaked her out by e-mailing her and explaining what was going on, but she hasn't done anything.
i e-mailed gmail about it and they did nothing either.,

never ring a phone number you don't know is OK, as there is a scam, where people register their number to be a premium line, and you will be charged £50 a minute,

never let anyone use your phone, as another way this scam operates is they set up the premium line and then go about "borrowing" peoples phone for a quick call at £50 a minute they don't have to "borrow"many to make a lot.

always send a text to an unknown number.

sorry, just read whole thread.

so how do other people then get use of the one without the full stop??

Your email address is your email address. If you get email for someone else it is

• a scam/spam
• someone has given out/written/made a mistake and put your email address in by mistake.

Otherpeople don't get the use pf one with no full stop. It is yours. Try test emailing yourself with and without full stop.

Oooh, how interesting. My email address is pigglesticks@ and I've just tried emailing piggle.sticks and p.igglesticks and they both seem to be mine. Could be very handy when I need multiple email addresses (I'm thinking special first time registration offers etc).

But if you own both how can you be getting someone else's mail if the sender has typed in the address correctly? You can't both own the same address and the op can't be getting so many that have all been typed in wrong.

My email address is [email protected] and I get a lot of emails for someone who obviously has the same first and last name as me. She works in a school and I often get sent confidential documents for meetings, I had the confirmation booking for her headship course, the airport parking confirmation when she went on holiday and the group booking at a hotel for what was obviously a family wedding. The problem is I don't know what her real email address is and I have had to contact all these people to tell them its an error and sometimes have been drawn into protracted discussions (that was the airport parking). Its gets annoying if there is a batch of them.

I wish she'd just be a bit more careful entering her email address!

PooPooInMyToes but the sender has not typed the address in correctly/not typed in the correct address.

Either that or it is spam

But the op is getting loads. How can each of the senders be getting it wrong?

This happens to me all the time. I worked out the email address of the other person; emailed her and told her. She apologized and said she'd check. But I still get loads of her emails. I get all her Littlewoods order confirmations - she spends waaaaay too much on credit, man.

I get this a lot. I've had my gmail account for years and it is in "firstnamesecondname" format. I think the error has come when others with the same name have the same email but put digits afterwards so "firstnamesecondname01" or something and then forget about the numbers.

Redlac exactly. I get mails intended for someone else sent to [email protected] & Google say 'yes, this is you'....but it ain't!! If only there was a way of speaking to a real human being there instead of a robot!

Just remembered I did once get a serious email- a nasty poison pen letter full of bile, but not directed at me personally. I wanted to alert Google but there was nothing I could do as I wasn't the intended recipient. Note: if you're going to send poison pen letters, check the email address first!

marshmallowpies areyou saying that [email protected] isn't you?

Are you [email protected], or are you [email protected]

Well Ive tried several different altered email addresses with non luck so far.

Nothing else has bounced back so it does seem that gmails with or without a period are treated equally-who knew?

Ive now sent an email to one of the more private email senders and hopefully she will let the intended recipient know of the problem.

By the way - none of the emails are spam.

ItsAll no I'm firstname.lastname. It annoys me in a weird kind of way that google have automatically assigned this other email address to me that I didn't want, or ask for, and is suspiciously similar to someone else's address.

The lack of human customer service available from Google is what annoyed me most. When I got the poison pen email it was quite upsetting, and there was no way that I could find of taking it up with Google.

This is odd.

I registered with [email protected] and then noticed that it was changed to [email protected]

Haven't had mail for anyone else, but the combination of names is unusual.

Google ignores fullstops in email addresses precisely to try and avoid this problem.

FirstnameInitialLastName
Is the same as
Firstname.Initial.Lastname
Is the same as
F.I.rstname.I.niti.al.LAstname

They all belong to you.

It would be a lot more confusing if they could all belong to different people!

itsallgoingtobefine
But why would thisisyesterday get emails for a person with same email address, aside from the punctuation?

Until recently (when I registered for google+ I think) someone elses photo always came up next to my email address in phones etc. It was weird.

Because someone, somewhere has typed an email address wrong. There is no way google can send emails to the wrong person, it would be a very very complicated thing to do.