Interestingly, someone’s using one of my burner Outlook.com addresses ...
... to order Domino’s Pizza, delivered.
IN BRITAIN.
The receipts are quite entertaining. I’m flummoxed at how to stop something like this. Since the user is the one entering the wrong email, I guess I just sit back and enjoy seeing their choices.
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I have a girl, a ‘Gina Vreeland’, who is apparently attending Arcadia University and loves Amazon Prime.
A George Vreeland who’s son is a soccer player, and I get updates for his soccer team.
Now I’ve got a pizza lover in Britain.
I’m tempted to fall back on history and take one of my ancestors convenient last names ... he was termed all kinds of things, referencing where he came from, after he first arrived in America. So ... I’ve always thought of Gerrit Van Skrabbekercke or von Broekhuizen as wonderful pseudonyms. I always liked ‘von’ more than ‘Van’, though ‘Van’ is the proper Dutch. Anyway. Perhaps I just change my name. NOBODY would want that in their inbox.
Supposedly the family never settled on “Vreeland” until the third generation was born in America ... so our actual ‘link’ to Vreeland, Holland (there were two cities of this name in The Netherlands at one point, one was swallowed by Amsterdam, the other resides in Utrecht) is tenuous and likely misinterpreted by history.
lolz i get dutch bank receipts from a dutch roland and south african bmw receipts!
I have a gmail address that’s my first initial, last name. I get a stunning amount of receipts, hotel bookings, car dealership responses, Amazon receipts, Facebook “sorry you can’t login, try this link”, and everything else emails I just routinely mark them all as spam.
You’d think if you put in to have car dealerships compete to give you the best quote you’d want to know why you aren’t actually seeing those emails? Apparently not, the dingbat did it THREE SEPARATE TIMES.
The Amazon one was especially troublesome, some guy got a tablet and “bought” every free Android app that Amazon had, I got receipts for all of them. Amazon customer service can’t/won’t do anything, especially since I “wasn’t the account holder”. I wish the big companies would have a link for “this email was sent by mistake, I am not this person”.
Especially sad are the church group ones where I have been replying to all (about 20 people) for more than a year that I am not the person they are trying to reach and yet I still get them…
Good thing it’s just a throw-away/vanity account for me.
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This happens to me with the e-mail address I used to use for work until we got “official” e-mail addresses a few weeks ago. The address contains my first and last name and is apparently used by a woman who shares my full name but somehow doesn’t remember her own address?! Anyway, I’ve gotten everything from “Thanks for ordering these clothes” to “here’s your work schedule for next week”. I finally found a mobile number in one of the e-mails and called her. She said she didn’t use that address since it “didn’t work anymore” and seemed a bit confused. Needless to say, I still get e-mails for her. Ugh. I wonder if she’s concerned about data privacy - I know I would be!