As subject, I have been getting someones else's email on my Gmail
address for some years now. I put this down not only to PEBKAC but
also to GMail ignoring the "." in email addresses.
I have managed to curtail a lot of these after recently getting in
touch with the car dealer who was sending me emails about "my brand
new BMW". He managed to get in touch with the miscreant - who seems to
be another "ichaudhry" in Canada. I think it also helped that I
mentioned the sensitive mails from Chase Manhattan bank, new baby
advice newsletters, medical conferences (the other ichaudhry seems to
be some hotshot surgeon) and suchlike I was getting on his behalf.
Honestly, here in 2013 you would think websites and businesses had
figured out how to verify ownership of email addresses but not so.
However the final straw is that I'm now getting his pizza delivery
orders (also from Canada) and I thought it's now time to do something
about it.
Has anyone else been in this situation and what did they do to counter
it? I'm kind of hesitant to contact Google as I perceive no conduit
for regular users to complain unless you're a paying customer (eg.
Google Apps for Business).
Thanks
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