WWYD- Getting someone elses emails? (LIGHTHEARTED!!!!)

[WiddlinDiddlin]

I've been recieving someone elses emails for the better part of twenty years now.

Her email address is nameinitialsurname, and mine is just namesurname. The issue is our first names and her middle initial are such that its easy, so so easy to miss that initial.

Imagine JulieJJohnson or SophieESmith...

Most stuff I can ignore happily, updates on her car warranty, invites to church pot lucks. Some of it I nosey at, the frequent and detailed emails from her brother as he was on his missionary years (they are Mormons) overseas were actually interesting (if you're a nosey fucker as I am).

I have tried to contact her (I have found her on FB, she has ignored my message, I friend requested her so she'd be more likely to see my message, that was ignored too).

I have actually emailed back and forth with her DF.. he seems a nice guy.

I have replied to many emails - for example when I was sent the passwords and account details for the church bank account, and when I was sent sensitive information about her daughters school classes - to correct the error.

But the error continues to occur, either because she doesn't make it clear to people to include the initial in her email address or she allows people to write it out themselves and they mess up.

Yesterday I had to cancel a zoom meeting for an outpatient hospital appointment, there was no way to contact the sender (that I could find) to let them know I wasn't the right person, and that she would be unable to join the zoom. I could have fwd'd it to her actually... damn, didn't think of that.

Tonight I've just replied to a multi-person email chain (14 members of her family) discussing selling some personal items, to point out they or at least one of them, as her email address wrong ... and can they correct it!

I know too much about this other ladies life, and I feel a growing sense of responsibility about this... that I really do not want! It's been twenty fecking years!!!

What would you do?

DP suggested I should just join in and consider them family and see how long before someone bloody notices!

My husband keeps giving my email to things without the numbers after my name. I’ve tried to email the other person without the numbers to say I think you have emails for me but she doesn’t respond. Maybe it’s an old account. I would quite like it to be honest so annoyed she’s not using it !

Ahh, okay. That has sunk in now. I get it, although i also feel sorry for the person as i stopped responding to messages some time ago so they may have missed a lot.

Thanks!

I was inadvertently added to an email chain for an American family organising a joint trip somewhere. First year I deleted and ignored it, but a year later someone replied to the original email and it all kicked off again. I think I replied once telling them they had the wrong person, but the email chain kept going for years. I haven’t had an email for a while, so they’ve either cottoned on, or they don’t do it anymore.

I used to quite enjoy reading about all their plans, they sounded really lovely and I’m a nosey fucker.

I found mine on social media, she's 20 years younger than me and was very lovely when I let her know I was getting her emails.

My name twin potentially used my old email as her fake/junkmail or people just can't read. I was toothy_bitch@ fakemail and I think she was toothy-bitch or toothybitch. I knew where she lived from her Debenhams receipts and her health spa spam offerings.

The final straw was when I was miserably newly single and I got gushy emails from wedding and engagement vendors. I emailed them all back saying the relationship was over, don't message again, too painful. And got a new email.

I have at times binned emails from my 'email twin' that were asking for a response.. not family ones, but vendors/services that really should know how to copy down an email address.

I think my email twin has missed her car service several times. Aww well.

It is still happening, the latest was something to do with a kids extra curricular classes. I fwd'd that one on. I am resigned to being her secret admin person for life now I think!

I get emails for someone in South Africa (who had issues with her nursing studies), someone in the US and someone in Australia (who borrows a lot of money). Also someone who went to a coffee shop in my city (which creeped me out). Someone has also got me blocked from Uber (!), signed up for Morrisons (so now I can't), signed up for various things and then had emails resent multiple times because they (obviously) didn't get to verify their email.

I really wish those verification emails came with an option to say "NO, THIS IS NOT ME!"

Totally confused. Why can't you just forward them on to her?

I had this a few years ago - someone not a celebrity, but her name is well known, and happens to be the same as mine although quite unusual.
Used to happen both ways round, including me inadvertently getting confidential info.
i stopped using the gmail account in the end, she started using her middle name & presumably a new email.
I also used to get lots of linkedin approaches for her too, even though our profiles are nothing alike, she also got a few phone calls for me too at one stage.

This hasnt happened to me, but, if anyone has been receiving payslips for a person who works for a charity in Ireland (and earns feck all), those would be mine. My HR had missed out the numbers in my email address and took forever to get it sorted.

For years I've been getting the bank statements for someone in Colombia. I've written to the bank in question several times and they did nothing as I could not answer security questions. In the end I just created a rule to automatically delete them

DH gets the warranty details, booking confirmations and more recently a job offer and work schedule for a namesake up in Scotland. He isn't using Gmail.