Receiving email from another persons email address

[Mark Pearson]

Hi,

My personal email address is pearson.mark (at) gmail.com and over the last couple of weeks I have been receiving a lot of email from pearsonmark (at) gmail.com, the difference being the 'dot' between the names.

I have replied to some of the email informing the person/company of the problem.
I sent a message to the address and I receive it in my inbox.
I tried to register the address but it's registered already.

There might be someone out there that's no aware that they're having all their email sent to my address.

Is it possible for a Google rep to have a look why this is happening?

Thanks for any assistance in advance.

Mark

[Zack (Doc)]

Mark,

This is strictly a user's group, so no Google representatives here, but most of us are familiar with what you're seeing.

As you can see from this help article (http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10313#) there is no difference between your name with no, or many, dots.  You are the "owner" of every permutation of your name with or without dots.  There is no other person.

What you are seeing is either some form of spam, or a person with a similar name who registered for something and miss-typed their e-mail.

Enjoy.

Mark

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[Mark Pearson]

Hi zack,

Thanks for the link and problem solved, it makes more sense now, especially as I have apps where the '.' is taken into account. I'll just keep emailing people back and telling them they got the wrong person.

Regards,

Mark

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[Andy]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Mark Pearson <pearso...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the link and problem solved, it makes more sense now, especially
> as I have apps where the '.' is taken into account. I'll just keep emailing
> people back and telling them they got the wrong person.

Chances are very unlikely they got the wrong person. Chances are they
are sending you spam, meant to be received by you. Leaving out the
dots is something spammers do.

By emailing them back, you just let them know that your address indeed
works and there is a live human on your end ... in other words, they
hit paydirt! It can be a good way to get your email address (with or
without the dots) plastered all over every spam mail list out there.

I highly recommend you don't do that, unless you can tell for certain
that it is truly legitimate mail and neither spam nor a phishing
attempt.

Andy