to not get why someone keeps using my email address?

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Its been going on for a few years. Its an Indonesian man called Mohammed something or other.
He uses my gmail address to set up various accounts e.g. other gmail addresses, skype, etc I must always disavow the authentication email but he still keeps doing it.

I must have missed one once because I got an email from blackberry last week saying that there's been 3 unsuccessful attempts to log into my blackberry account (I din't have a blackberry). So, feelign a bit fed up, I actually closed the blackberry account which would've deleted all his contacts etc. I thought maybe he'll get the message now.

But no, he didn't. At the weekend I got this:
Halo,
Anda telah membuat BlackBerry ID!
Untuk mendapatkan manfaat sepenuhnya dari BlackBerry ID, konfirmasi alamat email Anda.
Tautan ini akan kedaluwarsa dalam waktu 72 jam.
BlackBerry® ID adalah kunci universal BlackBerry Anda. Berikut ini yang ditawarkan:
• Satu sign-in untuk semua aplikasi, layanan, dan situs Web BlackBerry.
• Transfer otomatis atas beberapa layanan dan akun email bila Anda berpindah ponsel cerdas.
• Akses penuh ke semua fitur di etalase BlackBerry® World™.
• Perlindungan atas berbagai transaksi keuangan yang menggunakan layanan BlackBerry.
Pelajari hal lainnya tentang BlackBerry ID
Tim BlackBerry
which roughly translates as "your email address has been used to set up a new blackberry ID"!

Why does he do it?

Can't you message him back on the forum where he sent you the "don't care" message and point out you deleted his blackberry account? He must be really thick if he doesn't put two and two together and realise what he thinks is his email address isn't his. Where does he think his emails go?

I've had this with gmail. It's actually pretty scary, I was able to access all their emails and pics. I think they could access mine as well.

It's a Gmail fuck-up.

Its an Indonesian man called Mohammed something or other.

Did we really need to know his name?

My dad worked for a multinational at their London office. There was someone with the exact same (unusual) name at the Sydney office. There were many missaddressed emails. The Sydney colleague was extremely hospitable to me when I lived there for a couple of years!

I had a similar problem with an american girl who had the same name as me but her actual email had a number after her name. I got photos of her from a graduation emailed to me so I tracked her down on facebook and asked her to stop. She didn't and I kept getting signed up to politics and church stuff in the states. Then she used my email address to apply to uni and I cancelled her applications. That stopped it.

Do we really need to know his name?

You concerned about outing someone with the name Mohammed? Which I think is the most common name in the world?

Yes, Felicia, I'm really concerned about Mohammed something or other being outed.

@PossumInAPearTree Great minds - that's what i did this morning.
I reread my original PM to him and it was really polite. He didn't answer me, but wrote on his public profile about what had happened to him and how he didn't care. Then his friends piled in to say maybe I was his evil twin and other sort of idiotic comments.
Anyway, reading his other posts, I suspect that he's not very old - maybe still in his teens - so I went easy on him and just asked again to take care and use his own email address, rather than mine. And I told him I'd cut his new blackberry id off from my gmail address.

I don't think he's very mature somehow - judging by his posts - and of course he knows my email address but I don't know his, so I suspect I'm at risk of getting signed up to all sorts of spam if he decides to be vindictive now.

@Chloe84 - what is bothering you then? tell me and maybe I can put your mind at rest

There is a long yet hilarious tale of someone doing the same with emails but it involved being a bridesmaid and the shit hitting the fan when she didn't reply or take part in the planning. I didn't laugh much.... 😂 It ended up with her being uninvited to the hen party.

I did reply to an email saying they had the wrong person but that seemed to anger the sender more as it proved how much of a bitch I was (if I was the intended recipient)

My gmail account was taken over by a middle aged woman in America. She has regular haircuts, goes to church social things and sometimes has overdue books at the library.

DH gets emails from companies thanking him for his order for young girls toys at xmas. Also for car hire.

We've tried to sort it, but can't. Luckily it's not our main email addresses, just backup ones.

I get party invitations and also invoices for caterers for a woman in New York. One day I might just show up at one of the parties.

Mostly I delete it, the first time I got an invoice I replied to say wrong address (being self employed myself I would be in shit if it happened to me) and they thanked me but they still do it from time to time.

At some point they were part of a planning group for a baby shower and they got really shitty with me when I asked to be removed from replies as I didn't know them.

I read on here that there is a glitch in Gmail that allows this

I get it from a woman in Pakistan setting up things like Facebook. It is something more complicated than just her giving the wrong email as she is able to verify her account somehow as I get the notifications that she has

I used to get this, my Gmail was something like Mari.Blogs and I kept getting emails for a Marie Blogs. She led a wonderfully exciting life in London compared to mine, she put jewellery in for repair at Tiffany's. She made lunch reservations at fancy restaurants and went to the theatre. According to a wonderfully chatty email she got, she was American and was expected home for Thanksgiving. I replied to that email and asked them to tell Marie she kept using the wrong address. They ignored me. I tried emailing [email protected] but it pinged back so goodness knows what her email was.

In the end she ordered a pizza and the email confirmation included her bricks and mortar address. I sent her a letter explaining about the confusion and have never heard from her again.

I kind of miss the emails

Message back saying

You might not care but you have been using my email for x length of time. It has been mine for Y length of time.

I now have your full name, skype id, blackberry ID and loads more information you probably don't want a stranger having.

I have politely asked you to check your email.

Do you want me to post your details on here?

If he's being a dick ,I'd just keep going into his accounts and deleting them.

With Skype if you click "forgot password" can you get in that way?