I read stupid people's emails - the joy of a sensible gmail address

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#2936796 1-Jul-2022 08:38

openmedia: my email, as the primary contact address, would have bee passed onto a debt recovery company

Well that sounds like a GDPR complaint waiting to happen, as you obviously didn't authorise that!

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#2936800 1-Jul-2022 08:49

frankv:

I periodically get an email from the American Quarter Horse Association. It seems that someone typed my email address in instead of their member's address. No amount of emails to the AQHA can get it fixed.

I'm sure I could google it, but...what's a Quarter Horse? Are they small (1/4 sized) horses?

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#2936801 1-Jul-2022 08:53

In all seriousness, it appears that they're a type of horse that does well over short distances (such as a quarter of a mile).

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#2937092 1-Jul-2022 12:57

Behodar:

openmedia: my email, as the primary contact address, would have bee passed onto a debt recovery company

Well that sounds like a GDPR complaint waiting to happen, as you obviously didn't authorise that!

It gets authorised at account sign up, by the idiot using the wrong email address.

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#2937110 1-Jul-2022 13:12

But the address isn't confirmed to be his (even if the system sends out a confirmation link he would not receive it) so that couldn't be an identity.

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#2937151 1-Jul-2022 14:00

freitasm:

openmedia:

Their account got flagged by the betting company within days for bad debt. It I hadn't have stepped in my email, as the primary contact address, would have bee passed onto a debt recovery company and flagged with credit score organisations.

So yes.. It can be that bad over in the UK and Europe.

How stupid it can be - the email is not verified when the account is open so it shouldn't be used as an id.

Agreed. I'm seeing this a lot with UK based organisations where there is little/no validation of customer's email addresses.

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#2946996 27-Jul-2022 16:28

See also: people from other companies miss-directing their emailed internal IT-support requests to your own. Maybe there needs to be a license to have the autocomplete of email addresses.

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#2946998 27-Jul-2022 16:32

MadEngineer: See also: people from other companies miss-directing their emailed internal IT-support requests to your own. Maybe there needs to be a license to have the autocomplete of email addresses.

I would be tempted to reply asking for the password for the thing they are having problems with and see if they answer.

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#2962307 2-Sep-2022 11:40

Apparently I just signed up to a Panera Bread account.

I mean, looks like a nice bakery/cafe chain in the US but it's a little out of the way for me residing in NZ.

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#2962311 2-Sep-2022 11:49

geoffwnz:I mean, looks like a nice bakery/cafe chain in the US but it's a little out of the way for me residing in NZ.

Maybe they do Mail Order - Bread for the birds! (Barely suitable for that after delivery though)

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#2969417 17-Sep-2022 11:31

I just got a new Hyatt account, thanks to someone registering with my email address. Let's see how many points I get from this.

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#2969422 17-Sep-2022 12:05

I get lots of these.

Recently got some couples wedding photos sent to me. This is out of the UK.

I have also had someone in the USA get sent some car insurance stuff.

And apparently there is another guy in Melbourne with the same name as me and I get emails from his work, sometimes get emails for jobs he's applied for. its starting to get a bit ridiculous. I always thought having my name at gmail would be useful and beneficial. But I really get loaded up with not spam... but other peoples stuff.