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by Pxtl 1484 days ago
They're not scammers - I've just got a firstname.lastname@gmail account which means a zillion confused people think they're me.

https://xkcd.com/1279/

1 comments

Yes this is so annoying! I think it also sometimes happens when email addresses are communicated through speech instead of writing.

Though I tend to just block the sender domain (because they're always from services that I'm never going to use anyway) and ignore the email just on the off-chance that someone is trying to scam me in some weird way. (Plus I really just don't care enough to deal with it unless the email is clearly important or sent by an actual person)