NeuroTypical Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 (edited) 52 minutes ago, zil2 said: Check out this: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en#:~:text=to integrated Gmail-,Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses,ll still get that email. Oh that's funny. My wife and I did probably 80% of our marital arguing across email back in the day. So he's been getting all of my stuff too? Now I know why dude needs his wine and vacations. I wonder how many epic arguments about the nature of trust he sat through? Edited February 7 by NeuroTypical mordorbund 1 Quote
zil2 Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 (edited) 40 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said: Oh that's funny. My wife and I did probably 80% of our marital arguing across email back in the day. So he's been getting all of my stuff too? Now I know why dude needs his wine and vacations. I wonder how many epic arguments about the nature of trust he sat through? No. If you have [email protected] as your email address, you will get email sent to [email protected] and to any variation with dots scattered about in it: Neurotypic.al N.euro.t.ypical N.e.u.r.o.t.y.p.i.c.a.l. etc. ...all yours. The key factor is that when you remove all the dots (which apparently is what google do), it spells out NeuroTypical (not case sensitive). So the email you got which should have gone to someone else must have been intended to go to, for example, Neurotypical2@g... Or NeuroTypica1@g... (1 instead of L at the end), or some other variation with more than dots to distinguish it. Make sense? ETA: Important distinction: Apparently when companies choose to use gmail as their corporate email, there's some special setup which keeps the dots and distinguishes by them. So if your gmail address technically belongs to (or was set up by) your company, then it may be an exception to this rule. Edited February 7 by zil2 Quote
NeuroTypical Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 29 minutes ago, zil2 said: Make sense? It does, but what about my doppleganger in the UK who has registered [email protected]? One would think that he did, and that it happened several years ago. So there are two users using two "different" gmail addresses... I mean, if he wasn't able to register [email protected], why does he keep giving that address to vendors? Quote
zil2 Posted February 7 Report Posted February 7 (edited) 7 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said: It does, but what about my doppleganger in the UK who has registered [email protected]? Do you know for a fact that he did? Did you communicate with him and confirm he did? Seriously, send an email from yours with the . to yours without the . and see what happens. Or did someone type "neurotypical" when they should have typed "neurotypicals"? Or did he have the address before you did and cancelled it and now you're getting contacted by people who don't know better? (Sounds like not, but still...) 7 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said: I mean, if he wasn't able to register [email protected], why does he keep giving that address to vendors? Why did people keep leaving messages on my answering machine asking about fireplaces and woodburning stoves? That year, I'd had my phone number for 20-22 years (I forget which year it was, but it was around COVID). Clearly someone in some ad had made a type-o (too many people called for it to be the caller mistyping the phone number). Edited February 7 by zil2 NeuroTypical 1 Quote
pam Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 99% of the scammers who create accounts here on the forums are all from the same country. Or at least their IP shows them to be from the same country. Quote
Backroads Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 I'm pretty sure I just fell victim to a scam the other day. Less than a hundred dollars, but from what I'm learning that's how they rely on it. Just_A_Guy and NeuroTypical 2 Quote
mirkwood Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 16 hours ago, Backroads said: I'm pretty sure I just fell victim to a scam the other day. Less than a hundred dollars, but from what I'm learning that's how they rely on it. What happened? PM if you prefer privacy. Quote
Backroads Posted March 4 Report Posted March 4 On 3/2/2025 at 2:01 PM, mirkwood said: What happened? PM if you prefer privacy. It's an Amazon scam that uses (inappropriately) TRS for debt collection (which makes it tricky to detect). The reality is that Amazon is very picky and won't sell you anything if they don't have a payment. Apparently what I should have done was verify the debt with Amazon (apparently Amazon almost always knows nothing about it). mirkwood 1 Quote
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