I have this with my email address that I hardly use anymore because it was firstname.maidenname@gmail.com. I started keeping a folder of the funnies - such as those Christmas emails about what everyone in the family has been up to over the year,!
I've also been sent photos of "my trip to Paris" with my buddies in the Whitehouse - same buddies have added me on linkedin even though me and my name sake look nothing alike.
I've had dental appointments, confirmation of store deliveries (iwith my home address in the US), a very stroppy church lady who tells me what I can and cannot bring to the cooking lessons, details of the sale of my house in Liverpool, bank details to pay my friend for Kasabian tickets, my booking.com hotel confirmation (my namesake goes much fancier than me when doing city breaks).
I can understand companies making mistakes, but making a mistake on your own email is a bit ridiculous? One namesake forwarded me the email containing the password for her companies online payroll system that was being introduced to "help them to comply with GDPR"
I'd say 95% of the ones I receive are my email minus the full stop in the middle.
the weird thing I find is that there are a LOT of companies out there, who do not require people to verify their email addresses before sending out personal details.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
