| I have `echelon at gmail`, and I've received similar. The volume of mis-delivered email outweighs my own legitimate email at this point. - Multiple PayPal transactions sent to me (up to $400), several of which I've reversed on my own. - Résumés (Not blindly sent, mind you! They think they know who they're talking to, but they didn't do their homework on the email address.) - Dozens upon dozens of architectural renderings from several parties. - Shipping information. - Order confirmations. - Screenplays, some of them with actors attached to them in an official-sounding way. ("My client wants XYZ, ...") - Random legal documents that are marked as "privileged". On a few occasions I've had people realize their mistake and ask me to dispose of the emails. - Trip itineraries and flight information for several people traveling internationally. (I hope this doesn't put me on some kind of list.) - Random personal photos. - Stuff about fire department codes (a few times). - People signing up for just about any service you can think of. This alone can be bad in several ways: 1) Services that don't do email verification essentially grant me unfettered access to the account that was created under my email address. (Dropbox, Snapchat, etc.) Zero friction, right? 2) Sony won't let me register with my email for PSN since someone in another country "claimed" it. That account is in Portuguese or something, and I've been unable to get US support to free my email address since I need to talk with supporters in that country. I don't speak the language, and I haven't gotten any help. It's pretty crazy what people are unwittingly sending me or blindly trusting me with. If I were a malicious person, I could do lots of evil. I try to respond to many of these with "I'm not the intended recipient", but often I just don't have the time and I don't want to set up an auto-responder. |