[Benanov]

I get this ALL. THE. TIME.

I usually take over & lock / delete the account or alert their fraud department, along with the Google Answers link about how the dots work.

LinkedIn scraper spam without the dot? "Hi thanks for wanting to hire me, I don't reward scrapers"

Ironically enough I didn't put in this dot-removal logic in the app I maintain at work. For one, it makes creating test accounts really easy - the second is that most of our customers have their own domain, so @gmail is very rare.