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Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by peter303 »

ojosilva wrote: post #422

Someone registered and paid for a new Netflix account with my gmail address plus a point somewhere, which Gmail ignores. So I logged into the Netflix account, thinking it was actually mine and this was some misunderstanding. I realized that was not the case, so I to tried to get in touch with the person but no other info was available, everything was done from his phone apparently according to the account logs. I fig…

gmail has this weird bug that if I am XY@gmail.com, I also get email from X.Y@gmail.com.

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by osrec »

peter303 wrote: post #431
ojosilva wrote: post #422

Someone registered and paid for a new Netflix account with my gmail address plus a point somewhere, which Gmail ignores. So I logged into the Netflix account, thinking it was actually mine and this was some misunderstanding. I realized that was not the case, so I to tried to get in touch with the person but no other info was available, everything was done from his phone apparently according to the account logs. I fig…

gmail has this weird bug that if I am XY@gmail.com, I also get email from X.Y@gmail.com.

Is that just for you? Or in general for anyone?

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by thanhhaimai »

peter303 wrote: post #431
ojosilva wrote: post #422

Someone registered and paid for a new Netflix account with my gmail address plus a point somewhere, which Gmail ignores. So I logged into the Netflix account, thinking it was actually mine and this was some misunderstanding. I realized that was not the case, so I to tried to get in touch with the person but no other info was available, everything was done from his phone apparently according to the account logs. I fig…

gmail has this weird bug that if I am XY@gmail.com, I also get email from X.Y@gmail.com.

It's not a bug. It's a feature :)

"If someone accidentally adds dots to your address when emailing you, you'll still get that email. For example, if your email is johnsmith@gmail.com, you own all dotted versions of your address"

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

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by runeks »

peter303 wrote: post #431
ojosilva wrote: post #422

Someone registered and paid for a new Netflix account with my gmail address plus a point somewhere, which Gmail ignores. So I logged into the Netflix account, thinking it was actually mine and this was some misunderstanding. I realized that was not the case, so I to tried to get in touch with the person but no other info was available, everything was done from his phone apparently according to the account logs. I fig…

gmail has this weird bug that if I am XY@gmail.com, I also get email from X.Y@gmail.com.

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by [deleted] »

peter303 wrote: post #431
ojosilva wrote: post #422

Someone registered and paid for a new Netflix account with my gmail address plus a point somewhere, which Gmail ignores. So I logged into the Netflix account, thinking it was actually mine and this was some misunderstanding. I realized that was not the case, so I to tried to get in touch with the person but no other info was available, everything was done from his phone apparently according to the account logs. I fig…

gmail has this weird bug that if I am XY@gmail.com, I also get email from X.Y@gmail.com.

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Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by will0 »

osrec wrote: post #432
peter303 wrote: post #431

Earlier quoted context omitted.

gmail has this weird bug that if I am XY@gmail.com, I also get email from X.Y@gmail.com.

Is that just for you? Or in general for anyone?

Gmail ignores periods in emails. It also ignores everything after the +.

So if your email is bob@gmail.com you can also use:

b.ob@gmail.com, b.o.b@gmail.com, bob+alice@gmail.com,

You can use the second one to do filtering. I.e. use a different +{filter} for bills, entertainment etc.

bob+bills@gmail.com for bills. bob+spam@gmail.com for sites you know will spam you etc.

then setup mail rules to filter based on the +

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by arkitaip »

exolymph wrote: post #359
ericmcer wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I frequently walked home from work in Oakland at 1am when I worked a night shift. I always wore headphones too and people would tell me I was being stupid. After about a year and a half of this I was coming up a hill to a four way intersection when someone popped out from behind a fence just before I passed it, grabbed my shirt and stuck a gun in my stomach. He ended up being not the worst and let me keep my keys and…

> the consequences for her would probably have been much worse. Are you assuming that the mugger you encountered would have raped her? (To be clear, I don't think that's a prima facie invalid assumption. It's a sincere object-level question.)

Amazing, I can't even begin to understand how you reached that conclusion. Maybe you're a 4D being?

Re: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

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Post by circlefavshape »

laurex wrote: post #371
DoreenMichele wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I turned in more than one lost wallet or debit card to a librarian (or similar) while homeless. I didn't want to call them myself or whatever because I was homeless and I knew I was automatically suspect as a thief because of it. So I wanted someone the world would trust/believe to deal with it. Well before I was homeless, attempts to return wallets or found ID cards or whatever were consistently met with suspicion.…

Long ago, I worked in a record store, and David Byrne came in to the store to shop. He was wearing a red plastic hard hat, yet gave a disparaging look to everyone who seemed to "notice" him. When he left, I discovered he had forgotten to take his credit card from the counter. I called him (we also had a video store with contact info) and he was incredibly rude and told me just to cut it up because he couldn't be both…

Oh, that's disappointing, I've always loved David Byrne :(
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