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Post by failingforward »

Polizeiposaune wrote: post #263

Another recent name collision story: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/british-newspaper-spoke-... (Note the slightly different spelling; the former mayor is "de Blasio", while the wine importer is "DeBlasio") quote: The man at the heart of a high-stakes mix-up that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign was neither “falsely claiming” to be former Mayor Bill d…

“said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.”

We are truly living in the future.

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Post by dspillett »

A couple of decades ago I got sent some potentially sensitive (not sure how sensitive, I read as little as possible) employment related messages intended for someone with a name very like mine (same forename and middle name, surname differed by two typos, they also had the relevant .net domain).

I replied politely saying that I wasn't who they thought I was, and that I'd deleted the messages, and the buggers threatened to sue me if I continued to receive any more messages that they sent! This was an American firm, so there was no language barrier involved, though apparently an intelligence gap.

I didn't contact the other person until that threat, but at that point I looked him up and passed on that part of the comms trail with a “just to let you know what sort of idiots and litigious fools you are dealing with…” note.

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Post by mcdonje »

smrq wrote: post #265
mcdonje wrote: post #190

I would change my name. Family tradition isn't worth the hassle. The older people in my family would eventually get over it. This harassment will not stop.

"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."

That was funny in the movie. In real life, he won't change. You're the one who has to deal with constant avoidable frustration.

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Post by mrec »

zukzuk wrote: post #166
bertil wrote: post #115

A friend of mine has a relatively common first name and last name, and she regularly gets mail that is clearly not meant for her. She started a Facebook group for homonyms to help her route mail, and it now have a hundred members and have helped people get important documents. At some point, they even organized an impersonation because someone needed to retrieve an official document and couldn’t be there in person. A…

I have a relatively rare name — I’ve actually never met anyone with my last name, never mind someone with my full name — and this happens to me regularly. Last week I got a job rejection from New Zealand post, for a while I was getting someone’s pay stub notifications from the US, etc. I suspect it’s because I was the first to register the first.last@gmail.com address for my name. I guess it’s a bit like owning a sim…

I'm in exactly the same situation - very rare last name, first.last@gmail.com address, wrong mail from all over including NZ.

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Post by dbg31415 »

Just a reminder that there are ongoing issues where Facebook prevents Native Americans from signing up or being allowed to use their legitimate names because their legal names are judged “inauthentic.”

This has been documented for well over a decade. Facebook has publicly promised changes, but the problem persists and support responses appear weak. Almost like they don’t care at all…

https://www.vice.com/en/article/facebook-is-still-making-it-...

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Post by tlogan »

A friend of mine worked for a company with “cloud” in its name, but company had nothing to do with computer clouds.

He said they got at least two calls a day from angry people complaining that their “cloud” wasn’t working (he’s pretty sure most of them meant iCloud).

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Post by speckx »

bertil wrote: post #115

A friend of mine has a relatively common first name and last name, and she regularly gets mail that is clearly not meant for her. She started a Facebook group for homonyms to help her route mail, and it now have a hundred members and have helped people get important documents. At some point, they even organized an impersonation because someone needed to retrieve an official document and couldn’t be there in person. A…

I have a similar username on a "social media" site as the founder's username. I would get hateful personal messages, requests for favors, begging for money, etc., constantly. At first I would respond to correct people, but after years and years I stopped. I just disable notifications for that site and never read my mailbox, personal messages, etc. This has been going on for about 19 years now.
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