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Post by shanendoah on Dec 5, 2012 10:55:08 GMT -5
Back when we lived in another state, the roomie shared a name with a local philanthropist. His first name is common, but with a not so common spelling, shared by that philanthropist. It wasn't emails, but he got real mail for the other guy all the time. We really wanted to accept some of the invitations to black tie charity balls, etc, but figured that was probably a bad idea.
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Post by singlemomky on Dec 5, 2012 11:45:13 GMT -5
Mine is not about sharing a name, but I get mail for the person who used to live at my house all the time. I have lived in my house for 5 years and just last week I got a bill from an ambulance company for the guy. I get there are scums out there who try to avoid paying for things but to seriously use an address from 5 years ago!
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Post by Plain Old Petunia on Dec 5, 2012 11:56:52 GMT -5
I thought you know who got permabanned for the comments. Doxie got permanently banned? For her gloating about overtime in the Sandy thread?
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Plain Old Petunia
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Post by Plain Old Petunia on Dec 5, 2012 11:59:41 GMT -5
Mine is not about sharing a name, but I get mail for the person who used to live at my house all the time. I have lived in my house for 5 years and just last week I got a bill from an ambulance company for the guy. I get there are scums out there who try to avoid paying for things but to seriously use an address from 5 years ago! I still get bills for the grand-previous owner. It has been 7 years since they sold to the person who lost it to foreclosure. I wonder though if the billing company doesn't just make a mistake. (Their old address is still in the file someplace, and someone uses that instead of their current address.)
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Post by swamp on Dec 5, 2012 12:00:39 GMT -5
I thought you know who got permabanned for the comments. Doxie got permanently banned? For her gloating about overtime in the Sandy thread? I don't know if she was permabanned, but there were some very unkind comments to kdmaran after her husband died that earned her a time out.
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Plain Old Petunia
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Post by Plain Old Petunia on Dec 5, 2012 12:05:40 GMT -5
Doxie got permanently banned? For her gloating about overtime in the Sandy thread? I don't know if she was permabanned, but there were some very unkind comments to kdmaran after her husband died that earned her a time out. How tacky. Glad to have missed them.
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Post by Angel! on Dec 5, 2012 13:12:30 GMT -5
OMG, this happens to me all the time on my gmail (firstname.lastname). For a while I ignored it thinking someone just made a mistake. But after a while & many wrong emails, it became apparent she is handing out my email address & signing up for things with it. So now whenever I get something I can reply to, I send it back stating they have the wrong email & to please let the other "me" know she is using the wrong email, but the crap just keeps coming. I now know way to much information about this other person due to the various email, including one of her addresses in Nova Scotia, although her primary residence seems to be in FL, she owns a houseboat that she lends to people, is apparently fairly religious, banks at wells fargo & apparently last Saturday at 6 AM (my time) she was supposed to pick up Andrea to go to Rickys, but Andrea had lost her phone number. Upon my reply to Andrea that she had the wrong person, she wrote back "HaHa!, it is Andrea silly, when are you picking me up?"
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Dec 5, 2012 13:23:25 GMT -5
Angel - you should have told Andrea you would be there around 9am
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 5, 2012 13:37:03 GMT -5
I once crafted an email to someone who had clearly had my email for another person. They had sent something pretty personal, and I told them that it probably wasn't a good idea to keep me on any more of the emails because they didn't want that information out there. I told them that there were a number of emails that I believed were related to the person they were intending to reach, and if they could pass the message on that they need to correct their email address with certain people and websites. I lucked out because that person was very motivated to keep me happy.
Also, one day I got 26 messages from Apple trying to set up my user account for my new iPad. I did not own an iPad, and I could see the pattern of the person who was trying to set up their new iPad - they were clearly frustrated. One email. Another one 10 minutes later. Another one 2 minutes after that. 6 emails in 4 minutes. Nothing for 2 hours, and then the pattern repeats. LOL - took the poor sucker quite a while to actually look at the email address - probably spelled his own name wrong.
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Post by t-dog on Dec 5, 2012 13:53:57 GMT -5
I have a very common first name and have gotten misdirected internal emails from my largest opposing counsel's employer (i.e. the state) - people start typing the first name and mine pops up before their actual employee. Given the ethical rules on reading privileged matter I have always promptly sent the "I don't think you intended me to receive this and I have deleted it from the server" email.
I will strangly be sad if She who shall not be named was perma-banned. Boards are much less interesting without her.
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Post by taz157 on Dec 5, 2012 15:00:58 GMT -5
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Post by CarolinaKat on Dec 5, 2012 15:38:47 GMT -5
All right, here you go. Unfortunately she didn't include income so it's hard to know how she's doing. She seems to be paying bills late, so probably not good. She's paying a lot for medication, where's the doctor copays to go with it?
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Post by lynnerself on Dec 5, 2012 15:47:25 GMT -5
A little OT, but if you get telephone messages left that aren't for you that seem important, do you ever call back and tell the person they reached a wrong number? I think I only did this once, when it was something about a court date.
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Post by 973beachbum on Dec 5, 2012 15:51:55 GMT -5
A little OT, but if you get telephone messages left that aren't for you that seem important, do you ever call back and tell the person they reached a wrong number? I think I only did this once, when it was something about a court date. I got the messages meant for a Dr from a hospital and a nursing home. I would call them back but it diidn't seem to do any good. They would apologize but the next time they needed him they would still call me.
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Post by ontrack on Dec 5, 2012 17:07:17 GMT -5
We moved into our current apartment over a year ago, and we still get really important mail for the former occupant. One was a speeding ticket and one was their renewed car registration (!). We could figure this out without opening it. I wonder if they're homeless if they haven't updated their address with the state. We just give the mail to the front desk--don't know what they do with it.
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Dec 5, 2012 17:21:19 GMT -5
...:::"I thought you know who got permabanned for the comments.":::...
In the end, she wasn't permabanned, though we had a very long discussion about how to handle it. Whether or not she actually WILL return, is another matter.
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Dec 5, 2012 17:28:36 GMT -5
...:::"Comcast 96 165.35":::...
Unless she is ordering pay-per-view or something, this is quite a discrepancy between budgeted and spent. And if it IS pay-per-view... geez, stop viewing and you won't have to pay as much!
...:::"Wells Fargo 0 109":::...
I wonder what this is... budget $0, pay $109? A loan? A CC? NSF fees?
No gas, no food, no clothing, no entertainment . . . may mean she isn't budgeting those items and that is what is sinking her. There is too much missing from this picture.
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Post by resolution on Dec 5, 2012 20:19:57 GMT -5
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on Dec 6, 2012 17:41:09 GMT -5
I got a creepy email intended for someone else last year. It was for a Worker's Comp claim filed by a trucker out of TX. He used my email address (My email address is first name.last name). I called the employer because I was worried it might have been identity theft (and the thief was using my name). They told me his name and that he lived in TX. His name was nothing like mine but they insisted this was the email address he gave them. In the end, I verified with the Worker's Comp insurance company that they had no claims under my name or SSN. Also notified the employer to stop using my email address and verified that they had no one using a SSN with my last 4 (I didn't give them the whole SSN, just the last 4). It still kinda weirds me out though... why would you use an email address of someone whose name is nothing like yours? I could understand if you have a generic email (like sexyrose39) and you accidentally put in something similar (like sexyrose38) but the name emails just boggle my mind.
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on Dec 6, 2012 17:47:50 GMT -5
We get lots of mail for former residents at our house (We have a shared house of 7 people). The core group of us has lived here for 3 years and we recognize mail for the folks who lived here before us(2009). Some of it is important (Auto registration, jury duty, state licensing information) but most of it is junk. The important stuff we send back, the rest we chuck.
Recently, someone has been using our address to get medical care who has never lived here. We have been getting med bills and ambulance bills for someone who we have never heard of before (We know one of the prior residents and are familiar with the names of the other former residents because we have gotten so much of their mail over the past few years). Whoever this new person is gave an address that doesn't make sense as ours (We live in a house with a street address and some people have an "apt" number because we rent the rooms individually. This person's address is our street address, a BLDG number, then an Apt number. We are "Apt" 1-7, he is Apt 639). We send back the bills but they keep coming.
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