I don't have a very common name, but common enough that I suppose there are probably 20-100 people in the world with it. But I got the original gmail address of it. So I occasionally get legitimate but misrouted emails. Not scams, but I just ignore them anyway.

It could be someone’s legitimate mistake in their email address. But still don’t click on the links and just delete it. There isn’t much you can do about it. There’s a woman out there in England and a different one in Australia who keep using a version of my email address (similar to Jane.doe@gmail versus janedoe@gmail), and I get misdirected emails like this at least once a month or so. I just delete them in most cases.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The punctuation isn’t needed for emails to work. Janedoe@gmail is the same as jane.doe@gmail

No. This is not actually true.

Dots don’t matter in gmail email addresses:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en

I used to get emails sent to me from someone who bought clothes from a store in another faraway state. My name is fairly common —say Debbie Smith. I assume that the sales person types her address wrong and that I got their receipts sent to me. I tried calling the store to let them know trying to help. And got nowhere really.

Anonymous wrote:The punctuation isn’t needed for emails to work. Janedoe@gmail is the same as jane.doe@gmail

No. This is not actually true.

There’s apparently someone with my same name and a very close email address and I get her kids school emails and stuff once in a while. I email them back- but I go to the website for the school or sports league or whatever and tell them (I dont respond to the emails just in case). But I’d feel bad if her kids missed a field trip bc of a missed letter in an email addrsss.

I once got receipts for someone's purchases at a Neiman Marcus store. She had the same name as mine and it included her address in a nearby town. I called the store. The sales clerk had looked up the name and found it and added her to the account. I guess she agreed? I don't know. I changed my login and password and changed my last name to my husband's, which is much less common. I didn't get charged for anything (and she spent thousands of dollars) and it never happened again but it bugged me. The purchases are still listed on my past orders. I asked twice for them to be removed and they said they would but never did. It doesn't really affect me but it passed me off.

Email them back. Sound legit.

I get random emails that are sent to my address. There was a woman in New England who routinely used my address for all kinds of kids sports signups. So I'd get emails from the coach with schedule updates and rosters plus all the automated emails from whatever service they used. It was the same thing--they were using janedoe @ gmail. I suspect that they meant to use janedoe @ yahoo or something and mixed them up.

Recently I got someone from Trinidad's visa processing information. The embassy sent multiple automated emails a day for about a week announcing every stage of the process (until it was mailed out.) Hopefully they did better entering their physical address than they did with their emails address!

Anonymous wrote:The punctuation isn’t needed for emails to work. Janedoe@gmail is the same as jane.doe@gmail

This is the correct answer. Gmail does not count dots in its routing.

It’s just spam. Ignore.

The punctuation isn’t needed for emails to work. Janedoe@gmail is the same as jane.doe@gmail

Anonymous wrote:Don't click any links in the email. Don't open any attachments. Don't call any number to resolve the error. Click delete. Have lunch.

+1 !!

Don't click any links in the email. Don't open any attachments. Don't call any number to resolve the error. Click delete. Have lunch.

I got an email receipt for a shoe purchase (I did not buy.). Shipping address is not mine. No strange purchases on my cards/accounts.

Here’s the weird part, the email that came to me is not mine in the gmail to box. It is janedoe@ instead of Jane.doe@ ie missing the punctuation.

So I’m assuming is a phishing scam. But usually they can’t fake the sent to email address box, right? Is it possible I’m getting someone else’s mail?