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Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

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Post by pkaeding »

TowerTall wrote: post #143
bhartzer wrote: post #129

I own the domain of my last name. Several family members use (firstname@lastname.com). I once went to get a new phone at Best Buy, and the employee needed my email address. I gave it to here (firstname@lastname.com) and she insisted that it was NOT my email address. She insisted that it MUST end in @gmail.com or @yahoo.com, something like that. We frequently sign up for stuff online, and when we enter our email addre…

I have never had this problem and I have been using firstname@lastname.com for 20+ years

Yeah, I've had issues with firstname@lastname.name, but only with terrible regex validation logic that thinks a TLD can't be 4 characters long. And some quizzical replies from people: "dot name? Is that new?" Yeah, I say. Its pretty new.

Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

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Post by Arrath »

matthiaswh wrote: post #147
MarkSweep wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

firstname.lastname@gmail.com can have similar problems. Somehow people miscommunicate or misremember their email address and I get a lot of misdirected messages.

Now imagine how bad it is for the guy with the verbatim email address `firstname.lastname@gmail.com`.

Oh wow, I'd never even considered that.

Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

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Post by m463 »

chriscjcj wrote: post #97

I used to use an e-mail address a terrific domain name that I own. Without publicly disclosing specifics, it was like this: @ .com Thousands of people with this name, who didn't want to give out their real e-mail address, used this e-mail address when signing up for things online. They probably never thought it would be someone's actual address. I finally had to quit using it because of the tremendous amount of e-mai…

sounds like the woz story, where he got a common phone number like 888-8888. but he would get calls all day from babies.

EDIT: https://www.wired.com/1998/09/woz/

(a large article, search for 888-8888)

Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

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Post by raybb »

kentonv wrote: post #121
chriscjcj wrote: post #97

I used to use an e-mail address a terrific domain name that I own. Without publicly disclosing specifics, it was like this: @ .com Thousands of people with this name, who didn't want to give out their real e-mail address, used this e-mail address when signing up for things online. They probably never thought it would be someone's actual address. I finally had to quit using it because of the tremendous amount of e-mai…

Mine is temporal at gmail. "Temporal" was my teenage gamer tag which I mostly stopped using decades ago, but it's been my gmail address for almost 20 years and changing it is not easy. The problem is, "temporal" happens to mean "temporary" in Spanish. As soon as Gmail became popular in the Spanish-speaking world, people started using it as a placeholder address. * Lots of people use it when creating throw-away accoun…

Might wanna try gmailctl for making some filters. You could make it very fast to send certain domains to the trash

Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

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Post by xpil »

MarkSweep wrote: post #106
chriscjcj wrote: post #97

I used to use an e-mail address a terrific domain name that I own. Without publicly disclosing specifics, it was like this: @ .com Thousands of people with this name, who didn't want to give out their real e-mail address, used this e-mail address when signing up for things online. They probably never thought it would be someone's actual address. I finally had to quit using it because of the tremendous amount of e-mai…

firstname.lastname@gmail.com can have similar problems. Somehow people miscommunicate or misremember their email address and I get a lot of misdirected messages.

Welcome to the club. My gmail address is lastname.firstname@gmail.com and I keep receiving occasional emails for firstname.lastname@gmail.com who is actually some kind of a senior manager in one of the major TV stations. It works the other way around as well (he receives my emails - extremely rarely, but still). We simply agreed to forward them to the right person and delete afterwards so there is no issue per se, but it's still kind of funny.

Also, my daughter has firstname.lastname@gmail.com and there is another lady with the address firstnname.lastname@gmail.com (yes, a typo in her first name, duplicating one of the letters) and of course she keep receiving her emails and vice versa. Same solution - they mutually agreed to forward messages to the right person and delete them afterwards.

First world problems...

Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

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Post by JohnMakin »

yencabulator wrote: post #162
chriscjcj wrote: post #97

I used to use an e-mail address a terrific domain name that I own. Without publicly disclosing specifics, it was like this: @ .com Thousands of people with this name, who didn't want to give out their real e-mail address, used this e-mail address when signing up for things online. They probably never thought it would be someone's actual address. I finally had to quit using it because of the tremendous amount of e-mai…

There's an idiot sharing my first & last name who never remembers to put his middle initial in his email address, and as a result I see he's an alcoholic, has financial trouble, keeps applying for artist grants, has a social sciences degree of some sort, is involved in local politics, and so on. I could also choose to pwn his online betting, games, dating, and porn accounts any moment I want. I may or may not have ch…

How? If his email is something like johnWsmith@gmail.com and he's accidentally entering johnsmith@gmail.com (you), how is he ever able to register? If he's sending password reset requests to the wrong address (yours) - wouldn't every site in existence realize that's not the registered account and the email would never end up in your inbox?

Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

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Post by yencabulator »

JohnMakin wrote: post #186
yencabulator wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an idiot sharing my first & last name who never remembers to put his middle initial in his email address, and as a result I see he's an alcoholic, has financial trouble, keeps applying for artist grants, has a social sciences degree of some sort, is involved in local politics, and so on. I could also choose to pwn his online betting, games, dating, and porn accounts any moment I want. I may or may not have ch…

How? If his email is something like johnWsmith@gmail.com and he's accidentally entering johnsmith@gmail.com (you), how is he ever able to register? If he's sending password reset requests to the wrong address (yours) - wouldn't every site in existence realize that's not the registered account and the email would never end up in your inbox?

He has john.w.smith and is repeatedly typing in john.smith, and also hands it out to humans who then want to contact me about his things.

Apparently for many sites, user retention & money are more important than verifying an email address up front. He visits the scummiest betting and dating sites, so I'm not very surprised.

Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

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Post by comradesmith »

bandergirl wrote: post #157
alias_neo wrote: post #145

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I have the same, firstname@lastname.com/uk/.co.uk/etc; my family name alone is an absolute pain in the arse for most British English speakers to spell when given it verbally; to make matters worse, when I give people my email, over the phone for example, I get the combination of "what's it @?" and then when they finally get there, that my last name is after the @, another 5 minutes to get them to spell it correctly;…

> her maiden name was so sophisticated and easy You could have solved the problem at the root by taking her name

There is still time for it too

Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

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Post by znpy »

chriscjcj wrote: post #97

I used to use an e-mail address a terrific domain name that I own. Without publicly disclosing specifics, it was like this: @ .com Thousands of people with this name, who didn't want to give out their real e-mail address, used this e-mail address when signing up for things online. They probably never thought it would be someone's actual address. I finally had to quit using it because of the tremendous amount of e-mai…

You don’t need a custom domain, a gmail address is enough.

I have surname.name@gmail.com and I routinely used to receive emails for surnamename@gmail.com, because of some moron at google that though it was a good idea to ignore dots.

I haven’t checked that gmail account in a while (gmail is just trash at this point, beyond salvage) but I might still be receiving this guy’s loans solicitation or his car insurance certificates. Who knows.

Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

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Post by yosito »

qingcharles wrote: post #173
yosito wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use bestbuy@lastname.com with no issues. I often get customer service people who think I work for their company.

Lots of sites don't let you put their business name in the username. For instance, Samsung won't let you register with "samsung" in it.

But they will let you use sam_sung
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