[gsharma]

Same situation here! My HN Username @gmail and my last name is a very common last name in India.

I’ve received people’s tax returns (including their SSN), airline tickets and hotel reservations, matrimonial proposals, photographs, etc.

I often used to email back and let people know about the mistake, but rarely do it now unless there is sensitive/urgent information.

To deal with some of the repeated unwanted emails, I have rules created to label those emails with a specific label. I use Google scripts to auto-delete all emails from that label which are older than 365 days. It cleans up repeated transaction emails from Indian banks/credit cards, newsletters, etc. but also gives me a year to retrieve the email if it was actually meant for me.