Comments | heyokish: irritated. grr. grr. grr.

heyokish

irritated. grr. grr. grr.

Feb 15, 2011 19:41

I am absolutely plagued by people who share my name who don't know their own damn email address. I have had job interview notifications, tax returns, yoga appointments, hair appointments, wedding invitations, family photos, mobile phone bills on other continents, and other assorted really private things that I DO NOT WANT from at least three ( Read more... )

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dagard February 15 2011, 19:52:12 UTC

I wish I knew, David Agard has been giving out my email address since I was using yahoo mail, and followed me to gmail.

heyokish February 15 2011, 19:59:52 UTC

Sigh. Stupid, stupid rat creatures.

celiaka February 15 2011, 20:18:11 UTC

I knew someone of you name at school. Wonder if some of your junk is for her?

heyokish February 15 2011, 20:21:19 UTC

The UK-based one is a teacher--could that be her? I've not heard a peep out of her for a while, maybe two years now, since I had to field job interview stuff. I felt sorry for her and called the people who were trying to give her a job to suggest they ring her instead.

The others annoying me at the moment are US, Canada, and Australia.

momentsmusicaux February 15 2011, 20:26:52 UTC

It could be people typing in what the person in question wrote down...

heyokish February 15 2011, 20:31:30 UTC

In my generous moments, that's what I think. But at least one of these people has repeatedly signed herself up for paid-for-things-online accounts and here-is-my-life-info-give-me-discounts things with the wrong address...

call_waiting February 15 2011, 20:52:51 UTC

Am I too cynical I thinking that maybe these are actually really elaborate attempts at identity theft?

heyokish February 15 2011, 21:00:40 UTC

If so, they have become quite amazingly elaborate and odd. Oh hell. I do hope you are not right.

*fret*

blearyboy February 15 2011, 22:01:19 UTC

Ive had some awesome emails sent to me by mistake since opening my gmail act, not least of all the woman who emailed me thinking I was her boss and told me why I was a dick and the company was going to fail. I even made friends with someone who thought my email address was hers and had lots of wedding spam sent to me.

I've also accidentally logged into bernardoleary@gmail.com, who ironically is Java security consultant. I sent him an email account explaining that someone in his job shouldn't have a security question as retarded as "What is the flight speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

translucent February 17 2011, 13:16:48 UTC

I love you.