to sign her up for all sorts of emails?

[scarednoob]

there is a lady who lives in the usa who has a very similar email address to me. over the years I have received a lot of her emails, and whilst I passed them on for ages, when I never got a single thank you, I gave up. (I used to reply to people to say they had the wrong address, and eventually she did email me to say "i'm the scarednoob that they want and my email address is xxx not xxxx", so I KNOW it's her!)

it's been annoying for ages, but recently she has gotten worse and worse and more and more careless in giving out her own email address, to the extent that I get numerous emails for her per day. I get her bank stuff; her travel details; her kids' invitations and school reports; round robins from friends (one hen trip to vegas and I got about 150 emails in a day!) - and most infuriatingly of all, I get all her e-receipts and follow-up advertising emails, multiple times a week, from just about every single store you could imagine, and quite a few that you couldn't.

I do unsubscribe, but most of them don't really unsubscribe you, and you continue getting emails. fucking free people - I must have tried to unsubscribe about 50 times, but they still email me 3 times a day. all because she bought something shitty from there a few months ago. arrrrrrrgh, the rage.

WIBU to sign her up for a few things in return, and if so, what would you recommend - who is really persistent/embarrassing? (I won't really do it, but it's quite tempting to imagine her being bombarded with ann summers and estate agency offers as I delete and unsubscribe from the millionth email of the week...)

I would have suggested you sign her up with change.org and other sensible, valuable things, so that she will be motivated to be a better person.

However, being useful, nice organisations, those sites will of course require confirmation.

Still worth a try, at least they'll send her mails asking for confirmation!

Perhaps sign some change.org petitions in her name. Especially ones you know she won't agree with (she seems to buy lots of things, so she probably isn't an environmentalist, nor would she support a ban of plastic bags ...)

If she is in USA and you are in UK your 'unsubscribe' probably won't work as the USA does not have the same data protection laws (made even worse recently as the transatlantic agreement was allowed to lapse and has yet to be renewed, hence people have to now be careful using US based mail providers like mailchimp). I like the 'trimming nipple hair' approach ! good luck.

This happens to me A LOT. I swear there is some old dude in the home counties with a similar name to me who is under the impression that he can just have my email address because it's his name so it must be his.

I've had personal medical information, I've had financial data, I've had spammy emails, I've had his ereciepts.

I've also had several pleasant email exchanges with the owner of some kind of pot-smoking paraphenalia store in Greenwich who has been trying to explain to this person that it's not his email address!

I have also received nursing degree coursework from Australia on several occasions, suspect I have a similar name to someone there too. It's REALLY ANNOYING.

Sign her up to job alerts.

XKCD

Just a thought - are you sure you are forwarding them to the correct address?

I was going to suggest signing her up for www.flylady.net/ but someone else already suggested it, they do send out "helpful emails" multiple times a day, it'll make anyone crazy.

A few years ago, when emailing DH probably kitten pictures I fucked up his email address and sent it to some man with the same name in Australia instead, who kindly replied to let me know what I had done.

And then... I kept doing it. I sent him more kittens, receipts, my work rota, I think I even sent him pictures of a new bra Every time I did it, he would let me know and I would apologise. He was lovely. We got quite chatty in the end and I always thought it would make a good plot for a novel if I left DH to run off with him I wouldn't even have to change my name

But yes, op, put her email on here and we will sort this out for you

I get loads of spam about employment opps and also erectile dysfunction since I dared to sign up to something to do with Mumsnet job opps!

hahaha, loving the idea of signing her up to mumsnet!

there's another lady with a similar email address who also gives out my address sometimes - she seems to be a black lecturer living in New York, as I very occasionally get essays from her students about black feminism. she once signed me up to a dating agency, and I was getting lots of emails from "lonelysteve1956" and "bigjim" etc. she must have disappointed and wondering why she got no replies. as a white woman some 35 years younger and 3,000 miles away, i'm thinking I would have been just as disappointing to steve and jim. but I don't mind her as much, because she hardly ever does it, whereas imposter scarednoob does it ALL THE FUCKING TIME!

breathes

Gerrys fishing - I bought one present three fucking years ago
Indeed.co.uk especially if you add a random set of jobs like project

Sign her up to receive junk advertising penis enlargement, gender reassignment holidays in Thailand, Ladyboy services, oh and every pyramid marketing scheme you can think of - especially the bloody expensive aloe vera one.

ASDA babyclub. I used a fake name and 1 off email address for them. I can track the spam that they then signed me up for- masses

www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/02/18/these-15-companies-sent-you-the-most-spam-emails-last-year/

Johnny boden.

This happened to my account once. I changed all the passwords on the lad's instagram,ebay etc. It seems to have stopped :)

P.s you can get home addresses, telephone numbers etc from ebay accounts.