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

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Post by quietbritishjim »

thanhhaimai wrote: post #434
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.

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#

That would be a great feature if you could tell gmail what +something suffixes you've used and it blocked all mail to other suffixes and the address without the suffix. As it is, spammers can just strip off the +something part, or change it to +somethingelse, to cover their tracks. I know this is gmail specific - for other providers they'd have to keep +something suffix in case it really goes to a different inbox - but gmail is so big that spammers can afford to make a special case for them.

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

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Post by sleepychu »

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…

How did you log into it? By changing the password?

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

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Post by osrec »

will0 wrote: post #437
osrec wrote: post #432

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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 +

I knew about the + sign, but not about the period. Thanks for that - will come in handy!

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

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Post by mirimir »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #316
SI_Rob wrote: post #51

Every so often my pessimistic tendencies get a healthy slap across the face by the actions of someone who took the high road when they easily could have chosen otherwise. It's a couple summers ago, at the height of the summer tourist season and I'm cycling up 4th ave SW in DC. Somewhere between the NASA HQ and the National Mall my camera bag - packed full with a fairly new DSLR, a few lenses, and a secondary cell pho…

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.…

In some Landmark course, many years ago, our homework included giving $1 to one random person every day, and recording what happened. As I recall, maybe 50% of people wouldn't take it, at least at first.

This was, of course, mainly an exercise in sharing Landmark.

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

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Post by dkersten »

fortran77 wrote: post #348
DoreenMichele wrote: post #316

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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.…

I am 56 years old. I have never found a wallet or a debit card except one I found a card in a restaurant where I just hand it to a server.

I found a wallet in a train earlier this year. I dropped it into the office at the station.

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

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Post by esotericn »

majewsky wrote: post #460
bonestamp2 wrote: post #368

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Some do (that happened to mine when I forgot it once, bank called me). Others do not. The best ones require that you take your card before they do the thing you wanted it to do (as a measure to ensure you don't forget your card).

I live in Germany, where ATMs always require you to take out the card before giving you money. The reason I've heard for this is to avoid a particular scam that goes like this: 1. Eve spies on Alice as she enters her PIN into the ATM. 2. As Alice takes her money, Eve taps her on the shoulder and gives her a 10$ bill, explaining that it fell down to the floor when Alice didn't notice. 3. Mallory uses the distraction t…

The UK does this and I always figured it was to prevent you from forgetting your card and leaving it in the ATM.

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

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Post by anoncake »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #481
thanhhaimai wrote: post #434

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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#

That would be a great feature if you could tell gmail what +something suffixes you've used and it blocked all mail to other suffixes and the address without the suffix. As it is, spammers can just strip off the +something part, or change it to +somethingelse, to cover their tracks. I know this is gmail specific - for other providers they'd have to keep +something suffix in case it really goes to a different inbox - b…

Gmail has a filter feature, can't you use it for that?

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

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Post by Double_a_92 »

jimmaswell wrote: post #19
mav3rick wrote: post #15

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"Dark pattern". Do you know how many unsolicited messages women receive on Facebook ?

Whatever, it's ridiculous I found years-old legitimate messages in there when I looked.

I once won one of those contests and didn't notice until half a year later. They were kind enough to send me an alternative prize.

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

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Post by anoncake »

B-Con wrote: post #184
emilfihlman wrote: post #166

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Wtf? It _is_ a dark pattern. It prevents you from _knowing_ someone has messaged you. In 99,9% of cases you want to know someone sent you a message.

In 99.9% of cases you don't. It's mostly spam. Facebook is a friend platform, not a stranger platform. Don't use it to message strangers, it's very explicitly not what the platform is designed for.

If Facebook is not a stranger platform, then what are businesses doing there?

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

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Post by calewis »

I left my laptop (£2,000+ MBP) on a train in the UK (South eastern rail). Some amazing human handed it in, yay! The rail company charged me £30 to collect it as an admin fee.

Now, when I find things, and this happens relatively often (I've no idea why) I find the individual using social channels like LinkedIn or waiting them to call the phone.

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