Accidentally used the wrong email address, worried about being hacked.

Barney_Rubble_0403

The other guy is most probably running around like a headless chicken thinking he has been hacked as an oder confirmation has arrived out of the blue with his name in it 😀

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arciere said:

That being said, the chances that you have found another active email address by simply changing 1 letter in your own email address are slim.

Saver84 said:

If I were in your situation, I would contact the company as a matter of urgency.

 I still get an e-mailed  receipt  (containing lots of personal information) every time  somebody with a similar name to mine  orders a Domino's Pizza. 

The problem is that the poor customer remains unaware of his initial mistake and he lives in the USA!

I gave up trying to inform Domino's in the US as they did nothing at all to help and the e-mails continued...

Chino

arciere said:

That being said, the chances that you have found another active email address by simply changing 1 letter in your own email address are slim.

You might think that but, in practice, there's a very real likelihood of that happening. For example, I might have an address jon@gmail.com and, by one mistake, I have jan@gmail.com. This all arises because the population of the planet exceeds a couple of hundred people by some margin.

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Chino said:For example, I might have an address jon@gmail.com and, by one mistake, I have jan@gmail.com. 

Yes, that's  more or less what happened to me in the example I gave above. Thankfully my experience is just a minor inconvenience  compared to the OP who should urgently inform the company concerned of his mistake. However, if it's just some random e-mail user rather than a predatory scammer waiting to pounce, he's not going to suffer any repercussions....

arciere

Chino said:

arciere said:

That being said, the chances that you have found another active email address by simply changing 1 letter in your own email address are slim.

You might think that but, in practice, there's a very real likelihood of that happening. For example, I might have an address jon@gmail.com and, by one mistake, I have jan@gmail.com. This all arises because the population of the planet exceeds a couple of hundred people by some margin.

Yes, but I said 'active', not 'already taken'. You have no idea how many addresses are no longer available because already taken by somebody else but nobody actually uses them.

HoofeHearted

I keep getting emails that are not for me, from the UK and overseas.

As already said, hoofe.hearted@gmail.com = hoofehearted@gmail.com = h.o.o.f.e.h.e.a.r.t.e.d@gmail.com
There is a driving instructor in Yorkshire that has the same real name as me, but has either registered my email address, or types my email address by mistake. I have had the opportunity to break into his house when he was away on holiday, and to mess about with his new website that he was setting up.
It's a good job that I am not that sort of person.
The majority of overseas incidents are from Australia, although I seem to keep getting appointments at a dental practice in North Carolina.