To ask about emails you've received, when someone has the same name as you but puts in your email address...

[TheWristBoundLatexBitch]

I've seen about this before, someone with the same name as you accidentally puts your email address down instead of theirs. Usually it's because there is a . involved and missed.

A few months ago I got an email from the police thanking me for my report about a covid breach (I emailed back saying the name was correct but I had not reported anyone).

Now to today. I apparently have purchased and insured a dog in America, I've also signed up for alerts for all missing dogs in the area!!! Again we have the same first name and last name, but I live in the uk and definitely don't own a dog! This is one of them emails that you cannot reply too, and the number is (of course) American. I am not calling America, so the alerts will stay. (I've had 6 emails in the last hour about registering the dog, what dog it is and how I've set these alerts up!

Never happens to me. However, my combination of first name + surname is really unusual...I suspect I'm the only one!

I occasionally receive e-mails from students at the local university about deadlines, meetings with their tutor etc. I'm guessing I have the same name as a lecturer/tutor their and they select the wrong one from the address book (I did a course there a few years ago that was work related).

Got one today from the Bangor Lawn Tennis Association! Live in East Anglia….
I have a rare surname.

My first name is very unusual so I thought this would never happen to me, but a couple of years ago it seems I was a student at some US university because I kept getting emails about coursework and due dates. Then I graduated! Yay me!

Another time I (now apparently male) was told that I needed to be on the golf course, again in the US, by a certain time the next day. It was kind of a snippy email so I sent them a snippy one back and never heard anything again.

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If it's an account you can reset their password for, do that and change their email to [email protected]

I ended up sending a letter to a woman in Glasgow who'd used my email for her Asda account. I did try contacting Asda first to see if they could take my email off the account but they were spectacularly useless.

I've had a similar problem. A woman in the US, with the same name as me, signed up to Roku plus a bunch of TV subscriptions, a couple of years ago. I've tried to let them know, but they actually just tell me to log into the account (her account!) to turn off marketing emails.

I know her full address, because they include it in the emails. I found her on Facebook and sent her a message, but she either didn't see it or ignored it.

So I just get in this cycle of demanding that they unsubscribe me, then it goes quiet, then there's a flurry of activity as she uses my email address again.

My namesake spent a lot of money in Mothercare in Stoke - used to get her receipts at least 1 x fortnight for about a year. Mothercare said there was nothing they could do.

I’m on gmail too and as I was one of those who got my email when it first limited numbers to test I have the firstname.lastname version of a relatively average name. That means over the years I have had many people emailing firstnamelastname without the dot (which gmail doesn’t distinguish as any different) so the messages come to me.

Over the years they have come from worldwide and I only respond if I think it matters/they are waiting on a personal reply. Subjects have covered money owing, cards not going through for payment, invoices, kids that aren’t mine I’m enrolling into school, minutes of charitable organisations I’m not involved in, credit card numbers, birthday wishes, etc etc. The emails seems to go in waves where I’ll have none for a while then several within the same month (and not for the same person necessarily).

Used to get emails for someone on a track team in Canada. Returned with a note the first couple of times then ignored when they kept coming.

DH had a few messages from a physio in Oz, including the bill
I had a woman who gave my email to Ebay so I got all her messages. EBay were useless. In the end I copied details of one of her many purchases including her address and sent her a message on eBay telling her to sort it. I cancelled her attempts to set up a Dropbox and FB accounts
. Also an elderly lady used my email when she signed up to Eon. I ended up phoning her a sorting it out as Eon still sent me correspondence after I spoke to them..
Not to mention the woman in US who graduated from UC Davis and gave my address to the alumni association. The alumni people sorted it out but I get the odd message from her friends.

I once got copied into a long chain of emails about an argument over the contents of a noticeboard at a centre for adult education in New Zealand.

Apparently they'd agreed that PerpendicularVincent had the final say and despite me emailing back that I wasn't the Vince they were looking for, they kept chasing me for a decision.

In the end I sent back a pep talk about not making mountains out of molehills and made a decision on the poster content.

I have the same name as a woman who was convicted of a fraud and sentenced to a while in prison. I found this out as I started getting loads of emails from a gym, that was only in a certain area, saying I owed them money and debt collectors were coming so I searched for the woman. I called the gym numerous times explaining I wasn't the person and finally they stopped. I should say my first name has hundreds of spellings and my surname is pretty rare so it was extra strange just to get someone with the same spelling.

I've had this for years - I have the firstname.lastname (and because Gmail, the same thing without the dot, because like a PP I was an early adopter. Basically there at least two users who have to put 7 and 9 (respectively) in the address who seem to be too dense to understand that they have to use their actual e-mail address every time, not mine.

One is a retired doctor and religious nutcase in Australia. Prior to their retirement I used to get patient lists with names and medical conditions. I told them several times but even now I get prayer messages and stupid conspiracy theories that are meant for them.

The other is in the USA and their VW dealer is constantly sending me surveys about my recent car service and offers on cars. They didn't seem to understand when I informed them either, so after the 5th time I just filled in the survey saying they were shit at everything.

Some other cunt in Australia registered a Vodafone account using my e-mail address - I started to get threatening e-mails from them about "my" overdue bill. Vodafone were totally unhelpful until I reported them to the Aussie Information Commissioner - who must have more clout than ours as that stopped 'em.

I don't understand why people cannot grasp the simple fact that my e-mail address isn't theirs, even though we have the same name. No-one would expect to be able to pick their own house number or expect to give their postal address as 34 Acacia Ave with no town or postcode so why can't they figure out e-mail? it's not hard.

Many moons ago whilst working in the public sector, I used to receive email meant for a bloke whose name was presumably above mine in the internal address list. We shared the same surname and initial but it should have been clear that he was Will Wonka and I am Winnie Wonka.
Personal emails are strictly forbidden and should only be work related. I never met Will Wonka but he was obviously have relationships with at least two women at work, possibly three as they would send me messages meant for him.
It used to also annoy me that our section worked bloody hard and this lot had time for carrying their love lives in work time.
I replied several times with my own message saying I really don't think you meant to send this to me. They sounded like quite young women. They would immediately reply and apologise profusely. It was a huge organisation and they worked elsewhere.
I then emailed him saying that I suggest he conducts his love life outside working hours and said I was going to ask I.T. to issue me with a new email address. I wouldn't have reported him but I wanted him to know that he had been found out. He never replied but I noticed he had left work a few weeks later.

A mobile phone one. I used to get daily messages from a man somewhere in the midlands; ‘hi, it’s John, I’ve picked the keys up’ later followed by ‘hi it’s John, I’ve dropped the keys off’. Every. Single. Friggin. Day. I lived in London, didn’t know John and didn’t need to know this information.

I messaged him telling him he’d got the wrong number, it would stop for a couple of days then start up again. He’d never pick his phone up so I couldn’t actually talk to him. I then started leaving an answerphone message on my mobile saying ‘this is chitchatchatter, please leave a message and I’ll get back to you UNLESS YOU ARE RINGING ME tO TELL ME YOU ARE PICKING UP OR DROPPING OFF KEYS, I DON’T CARE, YOU HAVE GOT THE WRONG NUMBER!’

It stopped. Then I started job hunting and thought I’d better change my holding message to something a bit more polite. It started up again. I blocked him, he started calling from another number. Vodafone sorted it out for me in the end.

The worst was an email from a church about the chat we’d had earlier that day on the phone about organising a funeral and the related Covid restrictions! I obviously replied saying they had the wrong details but it did feel like I was prying into someone’s personal and private information when I’d done nothing wrong

I got garage reminders and offers for a guy with the same first and middle initial and surname. Oddly his first name is the same as my brother’s. I also managed to leave a review for the really ugly artwork he had purchased. Finally stopped when I replied to his pastor who was (in a very evangelical American way) inviting me to the church mens’ breakfast to let him know I wouldn’t be attending due to being a woman from a different continent. The pastor actually replied and was very pleasant. I assume my email doppelgänger was embarrassed enough to be a bit more careful with his spelling after that.

All the time. I actually have quite an unusual name in that I have a first name and surname that are from very different heritages but still they keep coming. There's a woman in Chicago, another in Hull and someone in Oxfordshire who all seem to have problems with their own email address. Have had Tumblr and Snapchat sign ups under my email (changed their passwords and changed display name to 'I don't know my own email address' or similar). I also have some absolute arsehole in New York who uses my not my real name email regularly and seems very interested in high end cars.

I quite often email the sender back and tell them I'm going to report them for using my personal info or point out that it's a breach of GDPR. It really annoys me.

I occasionally get emails for a US resident - it’s been going on for a decade or more now. Her kids play little league, so I’ve been asked to make the sandwiches when it her turn, I was sent the door codes to her nursery, she bought new tyres for her car a few years ago and they all had dental appointments in March this year. We both use a family email and it’s a mis-spelling of the surname that causes the problem.

Turns out she has the feminine name of my husband - think Daniel/Danielle - and the same surname as us, which gave us both a giggle.
She’s always been most apologetic and now when I forward emails we have a short exchange of ‘how are you’ etc. It’s rather nice.

Dh gets a renewal receipt for an antivirus suite that isn't his every year.

I used to get this with my old teenage hotmail. I was [email protected] and I'm assuming another toothy_bitch was at hotmail com or had a dash or double underscore or similar and either she or anyone entering the address ballsed up.

I used to get email offers for her from a very nice spa in Malvern and her e-receipts from Debenhams- she bought a lot of make up. I've had a couple of friends & family emails for her, too. I ignore & delete them.

The worst was when I was newly and very unhappily single and reeling with shock after an awful break up... I got a gushy, follow-up touting for business email from a photographer she'd met at a wedding fair and some update/subscription emails for other bridal things. It really fucking touched a nerve so I unsubscribed from all of them and ignored - and I think blocked- the photographer.

I’ve had this with my namesake in the US using my first.lastname gmail address but without the dot.

I ignored for a while, but then she set up and ebay and a Venmo (US PayPal) accounts and I was getting loads of crap, so I took great delight in repeatedly changing her passwords.

She didn’t get the hint, and then 2 factor verification started being a thing so I couldn’t change her passwords anymore, and I contacted Venmo directly to say she was fraudulently using my email and it stopped.

I always get hotel e mails. It's weird because my e mail address is pretty unique

I kept getting emails for a solicitor. I rang them nicely and asked them to cease. It still carried on so I rang them again. Still no change. They still didn't use the right email. I rang one of their clients and said I knew all about their divorce settlement. She was furious when I explained. Funnily enough they used the right email from then on.

I get a lot of text messages from businesses in the Bury area - restaurant bookings etc - confirming my bookings. Sometimes I get texts telling me my Hermes etc parcel is en route, and while I don't know the exact address they're going to, depending on the courier I can track where the parcel has been using the link and it's always heading towards the same area. I assume someone has a very similar phone number to me and keeps putting it in wrong.

My DH is worried it's a scammer but since none of the links ever ask for money or personal details, I can't see how it could be. Occassionally a restaurant will text asking me to confirm a table is still required in the next 24 hours, and I do confirm it, just to be nice!

Sorry, none of the texts ever have links asking for money/bank details, I mean.