do you remember someone is using my email address?

This has happened to my husband! He has no idea how to fix it either. He contacts sites and closes things like dating sites and random accounts but it is really annoying. It's like "Maria" who gives everyone my sons phone number! Her employer, doctor, and collectors have all called him.

I would post on her twitter page.

That's very odd.

A few years, I heard from an old friend of mine. She had finally got onboard with technology and had an e-mail address. So I e-mailed her. I got a response to that first e-mail. When I emailed her again, by clicking on reply, I never heard back. A few days later, I sent another email to her, and I never heard back. A few days after that, I got an email from someone else telling me that I must have had the wrong email address for my friend, because I was sending to HER email address.

Thing is, the email address was her husband's first name/her first name/their last name. And their last name is uncommon. i.e. the email address was (not really) bobangelalastname@blahblah.com.

I heard from my friend again, and when I checked the email properties, it WAS the address I was using. When I responded, I heard back AGAIN from the wrong person telling me I was sending to the wrong address.

I don't know what ever happened. I finally gave up trying, but it was like two different people had the exact same e-mail. And it wasn't a hotmail type either. It was a telus.net one.

I wonder if your issue is something like that.

That's just odd. I'd change the passwords to all of her accounts and let her figure out what the heck happened.

I'd be annoyed at getting emails for her, but I'd just delete them all. I'd hope that eventually her life would get difficult enough that she'd realized she's using the wrong email address.

It will if you make her say outlandish shit. LOL

I have the same issue. It's someone with the same name. Her son uses it too! I still get their Best Buy rewards (he's a big spender there). They signed up for Netflix with my email. Bills, you name it! Eventually, I found a second email for them (the son) and basically told them to cease and desist. This has been my email since gmail was in beta. I do change passwords, etc at this point and unsubscribe. I even called Kmart to get them to stop sending emails to me. Her layaway notices were coming to my box and I just could not get the darn site to unsubscribe my addy. So annoying.

Son said I was rude for sending an email telling them to quit using my address. I don't care. The amount of email I was getting was ridiculous.

Also, at least gmail disregards the periods and capital letters. If your email is Mary.Jane at gmail, MaryJane at gmail, or maryjane at gmail, it all goes to the same place.

You know, I don't know.


Recently, I received a phone call from a woman all upset with me for calling her repeatedly about credit card services.

I was sitting there thinking "What?!?!!".  She goes on to say that she understands that maybe I work from home, but that I need to stop calling her and leaving messages about this.

And I told her i had no clue what she was talking about.


She repeated back to me the name and number on her caller ID, and told me that if that was me I better figure out why it was happening and stop it.

Well, guess what...the name and number was me.   Now whether anything she told me was true or not, I don't know.   I don't bother with caller ID, so I didn't have a name or number for her.


But if it was true, that was my name, my phone number, my state, but I most certainly was not calling her.

So perhaps there is some wonky weird thing happening and she hung up with you thinking "WTH?!?!" just like I did.  



Whatever the case, though, that sound super annoying.   I find changing email addresses to be a big PITA, but I might consider it if the problem persisted.  Sucks that you'd have to deal with that, though.  

That is crazy!!  I can't even imagine how frustrating that situation must be.