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[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Gmail lets you put a . anywhere in your address

[-] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

Yes, and it's a problem because they allow different people to register accounts with dots in them, but all of these emails go to the original person.

For about a year, my wife was getting Uber receipts and email from relatives to some woman who'd registered the same name, but with the difference of a dot.

Did you know there's no way to contact someone when the emails you send to them are delivered to you? And that Google ignores messages you send them, even when one of their services is posing a potential fraud and security risk?

After a while, we started responding to her relatives with a form email explaining, and suggesting they call the woman and let her know what was going on. Eventually, it stopped.

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Did not know that, that's so dumb. I wonder if that's why I get random emails sometimes from someone who thinks I'm a hairdresser. I had assumed it just that someone had a similar email address in spelling or something.

Might have to sign the most likely . position in my email address up to so much spam that they close their account.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago

That's one way to do it.

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