I've received someone else's documents to sign re a home purchase / EPC

[2025willbemytime]

Do I ignore, ring up the solicitor/estate agent (not sure which yet) or something else?

I am assuming they will realise when it isn't signed and I'm assuming not a scam as it does appear to be a genuine company. Just puzzled as to why I've got it but while I don't have a common surname, I know there are others with the same name, so assume we happen to have the same email. Surprising it doesn't happen more I guess.

What do you think you should do? Isn't it glaringly obvious?

Call whoever sent it? It is a gdpr issue.

I'm waiting for a solicitor to contact me about property lol! If the email I am expecting had been sent to someone else I would hope the incorrect recipient would let the solicitor know.

There won't be anyone with exactly the same email address as you, obviously.

Just reply to the email stating you're not the correct recipient.

Apologies for quoting your OP 🙈

@CellophaneFlower actually it happens to me all the time. I get someone's email who has the same name as me. The only difference in the email address is a dot between the first and last name, yet I still get the email for the address without the dot.

Do you have to be so bitchy?

I have thought about what I could do and wanted to have a discussion about it to make sure I wasn't over or under reacting.

So sometimes mailing list touts do send these types of emails out to identify “live” email addresses from lists- people reply to be helpful and then they know it’s a live address that is more valuable.

So you have the address with the dot but still get emails for the one without the dot? Weird!

@LindorDoubleChoc wasn't being bitchy as such, it is kinda is obvious you need to call the sender surely?

@CellophaneFlower yep. There is someone either my name in the states and another one in the Uk. I am in Aus. All 3 of us have gmail accounts

Sorry. There is someone with my name in the states

Exactly, which is why I didn't want to reply.

Very weird. Dots matter! 😂

Can you google the estate agent/solicitor and find their phone number/office email without replying directly to the possible scam email?

Can your name be spelled slightly differently? I have a surname that is most commonly spelled with a double letter in the middle (eg Connor/Conor) and mine is a less common spelling so there is someone named BlackAmericanno out there who occasionally gets emails for me, including when we were buying this house.

Just let the sender know that they have the wrong recipient. Nicely, not like the woman (BlacAmericano) with the foul mouth who asked to be taken off our residents' association email list in very forthright terms. Everyone thought it was actually me and I had no idea because I wasn't receiving any emails until one of them WhatsApped me.

Google the EA / solicitor to get their correct contact details. Then get in touch via the details on the website to ask if they have a client by that name. If so, inform them they have sent documents to the wrong person. If they don't, they now know there is someone out there purporting to be them.

They don't for gmail for some reason - which is idiotic! It's not even her email, as if I email my gmail without the dot, then I just get myself so I 'own' both gmail addresses.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en-GB#zippy=%2Cnotify-the-sender

I get emails for someone in the US who has my name and likes to use my gmail without the dot - she's either really, really stupid or doing it on purpose as I used to get a lot of stuff she had signed up for, but get it less now most places require you to verify the email address. I got so fed up with her that I did cancel a few accounts/ change appointments when I could before 2FA became a thing.

This happens a lot with Gmail as they don’t recognise the full stop for some bizarre reason. So if you have a similar email address to someone say in the US but they use a fullstop in between their name, you might get some of their emails and vice versa.

I actually really enjoy getting my Texas version of me emails. I got the results of a paternity test a couple of month ago. He is not the father. It's almost like living a much more exciting life.
Sorry as you were.

😂😂 I've now gone from being relieved this has never happened to me to being slightly gutted 😳

Gmail ignores full stops - you can put as many or as few into the username in your email address as you like, it's all the same. The misdirected ones will be from someone with eg their middle initial but it's been left out.

I have a woman in Wales and one in Virginia who seem to be quite poor at how they provide their email addresses as I get loads of their messages. Got theatre tickets once...

Ah, see now this makes more sense and explains why it only happens sporadically.

Check the company on the email via google/companies house etc, then contact them directly.

Who has sent it? i,e estate agent, solicitor, mortgage company, broker?

Is there a greeting in the message like "Dear Ms Mytime"?

If not, I'm betting on someone in the estate agent's/solicitor's office typing the first two letters of the email address, letting autofill finish it and not checking it's the right one.