Ask HN: Gmail – getting emails intended for others
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I have this same problem. I have [email protected] and I regularly get emails that are sent to [email protected].
They are real emails too, banking with sensitive info pdfs, signup emails, etc.
Not sure what's going on, since there's no way that the person would have access to [email protected] since it's the same as mine, just without a period.
They are real emails too, banking with sensitive info pdfs, signup emails, etc.
Not sure what's going on, since there's no way that the person would have access to [email protected] since it's the same as mine, just without a period.
- police reports
- job offers
- draft divorce settlements
- bills
- sea cadet schedules
It's probably due to gmail ignoring delimiters in email addresses, but are these emails being sent to all variations of the email address? When it's something like a job offer I do notify the sender that they've got the wrong email address, but this is all a bit concerning.