gmail or googlemail account with same username someone. just may a
you. most likely the other is either nancyF1 or nancyF2 that is
On Aug 8, 4:17 pm, Nancy F. wrote:
> I have been getting emails for random "NancyF"s from time to time.
> (Not surprising that there are others with that firstname plus
> initial, like egriffin's situation with firstinitial and last name as
> a sequence.)
> Yesterday I got notice that another NancyF has declared my email as
> her secondary/alternate. I wrote directly to her to tell her to find
> another alternate name, but would like to know how to get GMail staff
> involved.
> I believe my account has not (yet) been compromised; I changed my
> password and updated the security question, but am surprised that
> GMail did not immediately tell her that this string was already
> taken. How concerned shall I be?
> And does anyone have a protocol to handle the wrongly addressed
> emails? I'm not trying to be rude to her correspondents who have been
> given the wrong information, but I don't have a lot of time to spend
> redirecting them.
> Whit33©: your suggestions, echoing the standard answer, about dots
> do not apply. (I should not have to do anything to receive mail as
> nancy.f or nancyf or NancyF - right?) Nor does the answer about
> "receiving someone else's email" help this situation.
> -- NancyF at gmail dot com
> On Jul 29, 6:13 pm, Whit33© wrote:
> > Sometimes you may receive a message intended for someone whose address
> > resembles yours but has a different number or placement of dots. For
> > example, your address might be homerjsimpson@ gmail.com, but the
> > message was sent to a Homer.J.Simpson@ gmail.com. What's going on?
> > Gmail allows only one registration for any given username. Once you
> > sign up for a particular username, any dot or capitalization
> > variations are made permanently unavailable for new registration. If
> > you created yourusername@ gmail.com, no one can ever register
> > your.username@ gmail.com, or Your.user.name@ gmail.com. Furthermore,
> > because Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames,
> > adding or removing dots from a Gmail address won’t change the actual
> > destination address. Messages sent to yourusername@ gmail.com,
> > your.username@ gmail.com, and y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@ gmail.com are
> > all delivered to your inbox, and only yours.
> > If you're homerjsimpson@ gmail.com, no one owns Homer.J.Simpson@
> > gmail.com, except for you. Sending mail to Homer.J.Simpson@ gmail.com
> > is the same as sending mail to homerjsimpson@ gmail.com, or even
> > HOMERJSIMPSON@ GMAIL.COM. If you're getting mail addressed to
> > Homer.J.Simpson@ gmail.com, most likely someone was trying to send a
> > message to Homer.J.Sampson@ gmail.com, or Homer.J.Simpson1@ gmail.com,
> > and made a mistake. You might even get messages from mailing lists or
> > website registrations because the intended recipient accidentally
> > provided the wrong email address. In these cases, we suggest
> > contacting the original sender or website when possible to alert them
> > to the mistake.
> > For security reasons, when you log in to Gmail, you must enter any
> > dots that were originally defined as part of your username.
> >http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Discussion/web/gmail-dots-i...
> > Receiving someone else's mailhttp://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10313&topic=13272
> > On Jul 29, 9:09 pm, egriffin wrote:
> > > I started getting emails ad nauseum last week for someone other than
> > > myself. We both have the same initials and same last name.
> > > I just got an email from the guy for whom I've been receiving all
> > > these emails in which he told me that he was able to get the same
> > > username from gmail that I've had since GMAIL was in beta testing. Is
> > > this possible?
> > > I really need someone at GOOGLE to contact me about whether or not
> > > there are two accounts for the same username.
> > > Has anyone else had this problem and does anyone have any thoughts?- Hide quoted text -
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