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I have a similar address. I’m sure you can guess. It’s insane how much daily mail I get that isn’t for me. I get completed contracts, credit card statements, yo
by jamies 3y ago
I have a similar address. I’m sure you can guess. It’s insane how much daily mail I get that isn’t for me. I get completed contracts, credit card statements, you name it.
One thing I occasionally do after a beer or two is reset someone’s password using my email address — just revenge in my opinion.
- drewmol 3y ago>Reset someone's password using my email address How does that work?
- bombcar 3y agoIf someone signs up with your email, you can trigger a password reset and it sends an email - to you.
- drewmol 3y agoAhh I didn't grok that, Thx it makes sense now.
- bogota 3y agoThey setup the account with his email on accident because it’s likely close to a lot of other emails. Essentially it’s his account although legally I don’t know how that would go if say you emptied someones bank account
- switchbak 3y agoI have one guy - I know EVERYTHING about him. I keep telling his contacts to let him know he keeps giving out the wrong address. We're talking very sensitive contractual stuff. I figure it's on him by now. The best is when the lawyers get all official with me. Yeah, no - this is your mistake, don't get all uppity that you sent sensitive stuff to the wrong address. From time to time I think about responding with a Goatse, but that's too much even for me.
- fbdab103 3y agoI know everything about my email doppelganger except her real email address. To be fair, seems like she does not know it either.
- 1123581321 3y agoI've matched some of them by googling ('a'..'z').each {|l| puts "first#{l}last@gmail.com"} The one who handed out thousands of business cards, and who has the same MI as the start of our last name, has caused the most sensitive information to be sent to me, by far.
- lhamil64 3y agoI'm having a hard time understanding what you are saying you Google.
- joombaga 3y agoThe first name and last name with each middle initial e.g. if you know they're John Smith then search for johnasmith@gmail.com, johnbsmith@gmail.com, etc.
- 1123581321 3y agoThank you, and fun fact: johnsmith@gmail.com is a special address that returns a 'does not exist' error.
- deathanatos 3y agoMy landlord does this. Every email, no matter how mundane, ends with an all caps warning that the information in it might be privileged or confidential, etc. and how I'm to delete it posthaste if I was not the intended recipient. Like … I don't take orders from an email. You're basically begging to be uploaded to the Internet like that.
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- wolverine876 3y ago> reset someone’s password using my email address Don't you risk a crime of breaking into someone's account? Regardless, that could cause someone real harm.
- atoav 3y agoIf somebody else creates an account tied to your email adress they implicitly agree to have anybody who controls that account use these features. If they don't like that they should use their own email address instead. If it was unintentional, it is their fault for not paying attention.
- wolverine876 3y agoThat may be how you feel about it, but the court may see it differently. If someone's paycheck is mistakenly mailed to you, even in cash, you can't deposit it.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoSounds like an American thing, as most of the world don't have "paychecks". The internet is global, and American laws aren't super relevant.
- pigeons 3y agoI agree that we should be mindful that there are many global legal traditions, but "unjust enrichment" is an English Common Law concept and much broader than American laws.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoFair point, but the "paycheck" example was an analogy around an account being opened in your name, and a poor one.
- atoav 3y ago