E-Mail Help NEEDED

CarolinaGuy · 23 Aug 2011, 11:29 PM

I'm getting someone else E-Mail in my in folder every morning. How can I stop this unwanted mail and see that it gets to the right person.

The email address is identical to mine with one extra lower case letter in it.

This is aggravating.

CarolinaGuy

Berenburger · 24 Aug 2011, 12:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarolinaGuy

I'm getting someone else E-Mail in my in folder every morning. How can I stop this unwanted mail and see that it gets to the right person.

The email address is identical to mine with one extra lower case letter in it.

This is aggravating.

Maybe you can send a reply to tell him/her to correct the address. Before, make sure it isn't a spam mail what you've been getting.

CarolinaGuy · 24 Aug 2011, 02:14 AM

I don't think that would stop it.

I'm not posting my real address but my address is something like

cpolk1@gmail.com
I'm getting mail addressed to:
crpolk1@gmail.com

That little "r" is the only difference in our address. This is a Google mail problem and there nothing that I or the other sender can do other than change our e-mail address and I cannot do this.

CarolinaGuy

petergh · 24 Aug 2011, 02:26 AM

Are you absolutely sure the mail is addressed to you? If your account is getting mail adressed to someone else, then either Google has a serious problem (doubtful) or someone set up a bad forwarding address.

Can you post the full headers of a sample message, appropriately munged?

janusz · 24 Aug 2011, 02:51 AM

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Originally Posted by petergh

If your account is getting mail adressed to someone else, then either Google has a serious problem (doubtful) or someone set up a bad forwarding address.

Most likely: the actual (OP's) address is hidden in Bcc:, and the To: one is possibly fake anyway.

Adrian Bell · 24 Aug 2011, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by CarolinaGuy

I don't think that would stop it.

Why not, if it is not spam? If you think it is spam just keep marking it as such and they will eventually all get filed as spam.

Don't take any notice of the address, Google is not at fault here - see janusz's post.

FredOnline · 24 Aug 2011, 04:59 AM

Could you not just set up a rule to reject?

CarolinaGuy · 24 Aug 2011, 05:33 AM

Thanks for the suggestion.

Both my address and the similar address was hidden in the BCC address.

I wrote a request to the sender to remove my address again and sent the header column to them as proof.

CarolinaGuy

Adrian Bell · 24 Aug 2011, 06:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarolinaGuy

Both my address and the similar address was hidden in the BCC address.

You shouldn't be able to see the Bcc address, do you mean the Cc address?

CarolinaGuy · 24 Aug 2011, 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adrian Bell

You shouldn't be able to see the Bcc address, do you mean the Cc address?

Yes, It's the CC addresses. I have written 3 e-mails to the group requesting my e-mail address removal.

I also informed them that if they didn't remove it I would send them some unwanted e-mail also. No response yet. This has gone on too long.

Is there any way I can block these e-mails.

Charolinaguy

Nikolaos · 11 Sep 2011, 05:32 AM

I get these all the time. People are constantly giving out my email address thinking that it's theirs

If the sender isn't responding to you, in Gmail the easiest thing to do would probably just be to hit the Spam button and mark all emails from this sender as spam. (As Adrian Bell suggested above). They will then always be filtered into your spambox and you can just ignore them.

William9 · 11 Sep 2011, 06:34 AM

Many email service providers allow you to block certain addresses. Which email service provider and which email application are you using?

George_B · 11 Sep 2011, 06:45 AM

This is a bit off-topic but look at the following link:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...anger-domains/

Researchers set up domains which were possible spelling mistakes of real ones. seibm.com instead of se.ibm.com and so on. Over 6 months they received over 20 gb worth of confidential e-mails sent to the wrong addresses.

I guess this means that in the near future we not only have to get the e-mail at the domain we like but also variations of it.

Nikolaos · 11 Sep 2011, 10:37 AM

Very true, George B!

I have received all kinds of personal info and docs from people who either mis-typed the recipient's address, or who were given the wrong address by the recipient themselves. Bank docs, mortgage docs, quotes and tenders for contracts, insurance docs, photos, you name it!

That's not even counting the spam I get that other people sign me up for

Most of the time I am ignored even when I try to tell the sender they have got it wrong. I sometimes wonder where people's brains are nowadays. I never used to get so much misdirected mail until the last two or three years.

robert@fm · 11 Sep 2011, 01:22 PM

One thing to beware of is, as hinted at by other replies to this thread, apparently "mis-addressed" email could be address-probe spam, designed to get you to reply "sorry, wrong address" and thereby confirm to the spammer that your address is an active one. This is increasingly used nowadays, as many people are no longer so naïve as to reply to "unsubscribe" requests for mailings to which they didn't subscribe in the first place.

If the email is spam (and an address-probe spam is carefully constructed not to look like spam), the headers are mostly meaningless; if you received an email then your address is in the SMTP Envelope, regardless of what the headers say.

23 Aug 2011, 11:29 PM	#1
CarolinaGuy Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 4	E-Mail Help NEEDED I'm getting someone else E-Mail in my in folder every morning. How can I stop this unwanted mail and see that it gets to the right person. The email address is identical to mine with one extra lower case letter in it. This is aggravating. CarolinaGuy

24 Aug 2011, 02:14 AM	#3
CarolinaGuy Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 4	I don't think that would stop it. I'm not posting my real address but my address is something like cpolk1@gmail.com I'm getting mail addressed to: crpolk1@gmail.com That little "r" is the only difference in our address. This is a Google mail problem and there nothing that I or the other sender can do other than change our e-mail address and I cannot do this. CarolinaGuy

24 Aug 2011, 02:26 AM	#4
petergh Master of the @ Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 1,309	Are you absolutely sure the mail is addressed to you? If your account is getting mail adressed to someone else, then either Google has a serious problem (doubtful) or someone set up a bad forwarding address. Can you post the full headers of a sample message, appropriately munged?

24 Aug 2011, 04:59 AM	#7
FredOnline The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Manchester UK Posts: 2,616	Could you not just set up a rule to reject?

24 Aug 2011, 05:33 AM	#8
CarolinaGuy Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 4	Thanks for the suggestion. Both my address and the similar address was hidden in the BCC address. I wrote a request to the sender to remove my address again and sent the header column to them as proof. CarolinaGuy

11 Sep 2011, 05:32 AM	#11
Nikolaos Essential Contributor Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 345	I get these all the time. People are constantly giving out my email address thinking that it's theirs If the sender isn't responding to you, in Gmail the easiest thing to do would probably just be to hit the Spam button and mark all emails from this sender as spam. (As Adrian Bell suggested above). They will then always be filtered into your spambox and you can just ignore them.

11 Sep 2011, 06:34 AM	#12
William9 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 2,281	Many email service providers allow you to block certain addresses. Which email service provider and which email application are you using?

11 Sep 2011, 06:45 AM	#13
George_B Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 709 Representative of: PolarisMail.com	This is a bit off-topic but look at the following link: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...anger-domains/ Researchers set up domains which were possible spelling mistakes of real ones. seibm.com instead of se.ibm.com and so on. Over 6 months they received over 20 gb worth of confidential e-mails sent to the wrong addresses. I guess this means that in the near future we not only have to get the e-mail at the domain we like but also variations of it.

11 Sep 2011, 10:37 AM	#14
Nikolaos Essential Contributor Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 345	Very true, George B! I have received all kinds of personal info and docs from people who either mis-typed the recipient's address, or who were given the wrong address by the recipient themselves. Bank docs, mortgage docs, quotes and tenders for contracts, insurance docs, photos, you name it! That's not even counting the spam I get that other people sign me up for Most of the time I am ignored even when I try to tell the sender they have got it wrong. I sometimes wonder where people's brains are nowadays. I never used to get so much misdirected mail until the last two or three years.

11 Sep 2011, 01:22 PM	#15
robert@fm The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 4,681	One thing to beware of is, as hinted at by other replies to this thread, apparently "mis-addressed" email could be address-probe spam, designed to get you to reply "sorry, wrong address" and thereby confirm to the spammer that your address is an active one. This is increasingly used nowadays, as many people are no longer so naïve as to reply to "unsubscribe" requests for mailings to which they didn't subscribe in the first place. If the email is spam (and an address-probe spam is carefully constructed not to look like spam), the headers are mostly meaningless; if you received an email then your address is in the SMTP Envelope, regardless of what the headers say.