I’ve got firstname.lastname@gmail.com and apparently someone with my same name believes they have the address with no dot, as they keep signing up for services like Facebook with it and sharing it with their friends who email me.
It is quite the odd situation. I reply to their friends saying they have the wrong email, but they don’t seem to believe me. And they keep signing up for things despite presumably never being able to actually access many of these services that require email verification.
My guess is it is someone not very computer literate. But it is always amusing.
I always wondered if those people don't notice something is broken.
Given how reliably this happens, I guess the answer is "no". It's also probably a very small number of people, just 1 or 2 with each commonly used name. But still every common name has those 1 or 2.
I wonder if this could be intentional for identity theft or registering an account without using your own mail. Consistently forgetting one's e-mail is a bit weird, but makes sense too of course.
My email doppelganger tried signing up for something recently, so I just went to the site and put in his email address so he can click the link and sign-up.
I have the same problem. The other guy owns a grocery store in Michigan and some of the stuff I get is wild - invoices, Azure professional services, hotels.com. I'm nice 1 or 2x if it looks important then comes the spam button.
It is quite the odd situation. I reply to their friends saying they have the wrong email, but they don’t seem to believe me. And they keep signing up for things despite presumably never being able to actually access many of these services that require email verification.
My guess is it is someone not very computer literate. But it is always amusing.