Ask HN: Gmail – getting emails intended for others

[dirtydroog]

It appears my name and middle initial are extremely common. To date, in my gmail account I've received highly personal emails intended for other people. They're not spam or phishing emails either. These include:

- police reports

- job offers

- draft divorce settlements

- bills

- sea cadet schedules

It's probably due to gmail ignoring delimiters in email addresses, but are these emails being sent to all variations of the email address? When it's something like a job offer I do notify the sender that they've got the wrong email address, but this is all a bit concerning.

[11874442]

I have this same problem. I have [e-mail] and I regularly get emails that are sent to [e-mail].

They are real emails too, banking with sensitive info pdfs, signup emails, etc.

Not sure what's going on, since there's no way that the person would have access to [e-mail] since it's the same as mine, just without a period.