‘I got 25000 miles from my email nemesis’: People share the most clever ways to get strangers who use their email addresses to stop

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
May 18, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

People with common first and last names all deal with the issue that they have to share their names with a lot of other people around the globe. There must be thousands of people with names like John Smith or Mary Williams, and that can create a lot of issues.

One of those issues is presented in this funny petty revenge story. OP (original poster), for years, has been dealing with a person, probably with the same name as her, trying to use her email account. That person doesn't really have access to the email account, but they continuously use the address for their personal affairs, like prescriptions and memberships. Since OP has no way of contacting that person, she came up with a clever way of getting them to stop. This story sparked a funny discussion in the comments of all the ways Redditors got their "email nemesis" to stop using their addresses.

Scroll down to read the full tale. After that, click here for a story of a nurse who overheard a patient's plan to use someone else's insurance.

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    "I got 25000 miles from my email nemesis"
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    Someone has been trying to use my email address for years
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    I've had my email address since the early days of Gmail, and for the longest time there's someone out there who has been using it (trying) for all sorts of things. I've gotten
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    gestation updates, financial aid notifications, volunteer schedules, job interview offers, and so many password reset attempts for other services.
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    This person signed up for a streaming service. I changed the password and they autopaid for 6 months before fixing it. I scheduled that job interview, then rescheduled it. Recently I got a payroll account setup
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    email for a new job I guess. I set up the account (later got the email that the email for the account had been changed). They signed up for a Starbucks account. I don't go to Starbucks.
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    I got the happy birthday email from Starbucks yesterday. It's not my birthday. So now I'm drinking my free $9 macadamia something-or-other cold brew.
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    I'd tell them directly to stop using my account, but I don't know their email address. ETA I have made reasonable attempts to respond to personal emails telling people
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    that I wasn't the person they were trying to reach, and even tried to pass along the message to please for the love of all that is good in the world to STOP and I gave up after about 5 years of trying. At one point I
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    also reached out to everyone on social media with the same name and still, it continues. I have given up on trying and I will continue changing the passwords to every account
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    they create with my email address until they stop using it. I'm just glad I haven't gotten any more years. pics in a few
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    Sea_Voice_404 · 18 hr. ago I had this happen before. I use "first initial-last name" at gmail. Person has the same last name as me, not the same first name, and not the same gender either. I got flight itineraries, legal docs,
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    dr stuff. I had found him and told him the issue and he said he'd fix it. I even called the lawyer's office to tell them. I refused to forward the guy the docs I received, and did the canceling thing.
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    Nothing seemed to take. You know when it finally stopped? When I received a "hey before the reunion we should all play golf and drink" group email. I had a very nice conversation with the guy who had arranged that letting him know I wasn't his friend, the weekend sounded
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    like a lot of fun, but he should probably tell his friend to stop being an idiot and use the correct email. I suspect the group all gave him a hard enough time where he finally stopped it.
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    Yooper5643. 20 hr. ago I had a similar situation a few years back. After some research, I learned that a lawyer in South Carolina and I had the same name. I called his office and left a message asking him to stop. giving out my email address. No dice. He finally quit when I started cancelling boat reservations, tennis club memberships, and whatnot.
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    Accomplished_Bag_804 · 19 hr. ago Once I got 25000 miles from a woman that shares the same name as me. She traveled to overseas but on her way back she booked business class.
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    She used my email AGAIN for reclaiming miles, but I already have an acc with that email, so I got them instead of her. I guess thats what happened. I then traveled 4 times (almost) for free around Europe.
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    -blundertaker- OP. 19 hr. ago Well that's a much better score than Starbucks
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    Rotas_dw 20 hr. ago I have this, I'm in Australia and my email Nemesis is in the USA. I have all his information from account info he's set up with my email address, including his phone number. I rang him once and he argued with me saying it was His email address and always
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    had been. My response of "so why am I getting all the emails then and you don't see them?" Fell on deaf ears. He's still using it, and I'm still cancelling his accounts including appliance rentals and car purchases. I even called the HR Dept at the place he was working and had them coach him through setting up another. address to get his pay sips to. It did no good.
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    ski3600 20 hr. ago Reply to the HR emails with a resignation letter.
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    white- -Stuff - 21 hr. ago I'm waiting for someone to post in TIFU that they have accidentally misspelled their email for years probably and lost interviews, appointments and Starbucks reward.
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    wannabejoanie · 19 hr. ago I had someone use my phone number to get updates on their temu order. I was able to use the link in the text to find her actual email and asked her to fix it cause it's annoying. I can't block them cause they come from randomly generated 5 digit numbers, not a single actual phone number
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    She didn't. So the next time I got one I went back in and found her name and delivery address, which was a residence. I wrote and mailed her a physical letter saying FIX THIS and haven't had an issue since. Pretty sure I scared her. Good. She has terrible taste.
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