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Not an answer to your question, but yesterday I was annoyed that I unsubscribed to an email list and there wasn't an option to select that I never signed up for it. My email address has my first initial in it - and my user name does not stand for JulieBalls, seeing that my name isn't Julie. However, that doesn't stop Julie for signing me up for all sorts of shitty emails like "Hi Julie, Rand Paul needs your support to fight Facist Fauci", "Julie, this is Reverend Fuck Knuckles and I need you to pray for Trump", etc.
When I unsubscribe from these lists they usually make me select an option like "I'm no longer interested in this content." I'm like "bitch, I was never interested in your trash-ass content!"
My mum always gives her email address as her full name @gmail.com
She doesn't have an email account with gmail. She had a work email account but retired years ago. She's never signed up for it. Chances are somebody else took it a long time ago. But she just thinks this is how emails work. It's how mine looks. Why wouldn't hers be similar? So anytime anybody asks for an email, that's who gets it. Some poor woman in another country quietly marking doctors appointments as spam.
Yeah, I have some yank doing that to me regularly on my email address. She has kids, and a car. Get a lot of car repair and rego emails. And childcare emails. I emailed her kids child care to tell them I wasn't in the US, didn't have kids, and couldn't find their unsubscribe button. They sent me irate messages back telling me that her poor toddlers would be sent home if I kept sending things like that... I told them it was a major security risk to send such emails to an unconfirmed email to a random stranger overseas. They eventually got the hint, or possibly phoned the mother, as they eventually shut up, but it took a few tries over several weeks.
I often wonder about her, but she is impossible to communicate with directly. I just get her mail, but have nowhere to forward it to.
My lady has signed up for Care.com to be a nanny, and I frequently get inquiries from families looking to hire her. But yeah, I have no way of actually getting this info to her, since I don't know her real address. I considered doing a password reset to make her have to get another account, but I wasn't sure about the ethics and legalities of that.
Your mom and Julie are probably best friends, cause that's exactly what's happening with my email account. It's like every 6 months, she signs up for something new. I'm guessing she must be confused when she never gets the communication she signed up for? But she probably has a very loose understanding of how email actually works.
Yeah, Iβve been signed up for businesses in various US states by people who share my name. This must be what theyβre doing. Sometimes I even get sent receipts and insurance policy documents.