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weird emails

Going Forward · 2013-01-09 22:28:41

I have received what look like a couple of emails sent to someone else. The other person/account has a full stop between their first and second name on their gmail account, I have a similar name without the full stop and have gotten these odd emails. When I click on the see details arrow, I can see that they are addressed…

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09-01-2013 11:28pm

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Going Forward

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I have received what look like a couple of emails sent to someone else.

The other person/account has a full stop between their first and second name on their gmail account, I have a similar name without the full stop and have gotten these odd emails. When I click on the see details arrow, I can see that they are addressed not to me but the full stop guy!!

Is it someone messing around??

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#2 10-01-2013 1:35am
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Gmail doesn't count full-stops for addresses. johnsmith@gmail.com, john.smith@gmail.com and j.oh.n.s.mi.th@gmail.com are all the same address. Source

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#3 10-01-2013 11:15am
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when i tried to contact the other person i got a notification that theirs was an invalid email address!

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#4 10-01-2013 11:17am
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28064212 wrote: »

Gmail doesn't count full-stops for addresses. johnsmith@gmail.com, john.smith@gmail.com and j.oh.n.s.mi.th@gmail.com are all the same address. Source

TDIL Thanks!

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