Tizeye Posted April 24, 2018 Share #1 Posted April 24, 2018 Similar to the car warranty telemarketing calls thread...I get it on email. When Google was a startup my son called me, didn't tell me to buy the stock - there went his inheritance, but a new email service called gmail. Quick, get your name before it is take. I did...and everyone else with my name has to have numbers or other identifiers as part of their email address. About 3 or 4 times a year I get emails that were obviously intended for a different person with my name...from as far away as Australia! Personal ones are easy as I give a courteous reply to the sender to check the email...and no I won't be able to meet them for the job interview when the fly into LAX wiht my being in FL! Corporates are some of the worse as 1) no one takes responsibility to correct the corporate records and 2) it is spread throughout their marketing machine so if you correct one, it doesn't correct the others. Thanks for letting me know I made a deposit to my account but I don't have at Santander Bank. No, I didn't buy a Ford in California. and AT&T...I didn't open an account and am a happy T-Mobile customer. And the list goes on. A couple days ago I got a survey to know how my service was on my Nissan - and the owner's name is nowhere near mine. While I have contacted the Nissan dealer before to correct their records, obviously not done. Very tempted to complete the survey with all 1's to get their attention. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted April 24, 2018 Share #2 Posted April 24, 2018 Go for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted April 24, 2018 Share #3 Posted April 24, 2018 "Tizeye" is probably in the bottom 0.1% of surnames. I don't think you needed to rush to get tizeye@gmail. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share #4 Posted April 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Razors Edge said: "Tizeye" is probably in the bottom 0.1% of surnames. I don't think you needed to rush to get tizeye@gmail. Tom You would be surprised how popular it is. Sometimes I try to use it as a user name where they don't use email as the user name, and it is already taken. GRRRRR! Occasionally it is myself that has taken it as and earlier setup, and won'r recognize me as the same person to re-claim the account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted April 25, 2018 Share #5 Posted April 25, 2018 Great story. Back when I was changing ISP's often and feared forgetting to update some people of a new email address, I used my yahoo.com backup email address to share with other high school sports coaches since many were from out of state or otherwise outside my normal circle of coaching contacts. To this day, over a decade later, I get invitations through that email address, but usually to the attention of the current coaches, to bring my high school's softball or cross country teams to various tournaments and meets. I just forward them to our school's athletic director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted April 25, 2018 Share #6 Posted April 25, 2018 21 hours ago, Tizeye said: You have the wrong person! How do you know who I have? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted April 25, 2018 Share #7 Posted April 25, 2018 It's a shame that your son didn't tell you to put his college savings into Google stock when it was a startup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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