Note by @fastfinge

Someone in #Denver is absolutely convinced their email address is samuel.proulx@gmail.com. Nope! It’s one of my email addresses! Last year I got their license to sell weed in the state of #Colorado, complete with a nice PDF card for me to print out and put in my wallet. Today, I’m getting multiple emails from Best Western that they need to complete their employee onboarding. When I let HR know about the problem, they emailed me back requiring that I provide the correct email address. WTF? How should I know! I’ve tried multiple times to track this person down with no success. Including a snail mail postcard asking them to please stop entering my email address into things, and figure out what their email address is and use that instead. But no luck. If you are, or know, Samuel Proulx who lives in Denver, used to work at a weed shop, and is now about to start a job at VIB Best Western (assuming you upload your documents into the online portal that you don’t have a link to because you gave the wrong email address), please let them know that samuel.proulx@gmail.com is not their email address! And they should stop saying it is on important government and employment documents! Because I get that email! Complete with addresses, licenses, tax info, and other private information! I would like to not get this person’s private life in my inbox anymore.

@fastfinge Lolololol!!!! I got an email from a psychiatrist in France about a 6-year-old child that had a bunch of huge issues. This was supposed to go to his mother. The dude told me not to read it; which I said I wouldn't, but did. Quite interesting little fella. he liked to bite... a lot. I also got an invitation to a huge family gathering in France, again. I did reach out, but they wouldn't believe I wasn't the person that they were trying to reach. I finally just said that I'd show up and couldn't wait to see them. People are weird.

@fastfinge I have the same problem, with the icloud.com version of my email (.mac .me .icloud are all THE SAME email address). Some Lori Olson down in Seattle. I get all her appointment confirmations, her pizza order receipts, etc.

@lorimolson @fastfinge similar problem with my Gmail account. Keep getting emails for some company owner in Texas

@fastfinge A friend of mine has a similar problem he has both the Gmail and Yahoo version of his firstname.lastname. for this other similarly named person he's received sports tickets, divorce documents, onboarding docs and much more.

@tjolsen I really don’t understand it. Like, after you missed several crucially important emails, wouldn’t you, I don’t know, realize something is wrong? And maybe learn your real email address?

@fastfinge that would be the smart, easy, sensible thing to do but unfortunately we live in America.

@tjolsen Oh, right. Obviously the democrats are intercepting his emails. Because Google is run by radical leftists. I’m sure soon Trump will bring these big tech companies to heal so republicans can get their emails again. LOL

@fastfinge ah yes why didn't I think of that!

I got their mailing address because I get multiple receipts and shipping notifications for purchases they make. I’d phone them, but none of the emails to date have included a phone number.

@fastfinge Oh boy, I feel your pain.

I have a gmail account which is unusable because MANY people use my user name (and mistakenly append gmail dot com). Therefore I get this very special kind of spam -- coupons for restaurants in cities I've never visited, notices from banks, personal messages that I don't want to have read -- continually and in such quantities that I have just given up.

I used to occasionally try to contact someone, when it seemed important...

Hope you have better luck!

@fastfinge Well obviously you should just start selling weed in Denver over the internet.

@fastfinge Them asking you for the correct email is, as I believe some people say, chef's kiss. I don't know why they say it and find it quite irritating when they do but I digress.

@jscholes It’s a kinda blowing a kiss gesture that the stereotypical French chef makes when something is done to perfection. And I know right? Samuel Proulx is a pretty common name. There’s one who’s in jail in Quebec. There’s one who makes contributions to the BSD Kernel (I never get his email sadly), and a bunch more.

@fastfinge I would create another e-mail, on another provider, and start quitting GMail.

@clv1 I already have. I just keep that account as an email forwarder, and so that nobody else can grab it and pretend to be me, as I did use it for a few years. I didn’t delete my twitter account for the same reason; I’d rather not have bad actors reusing my username. So I just leave accounts inactive with a note in the profile where possible that the account is unused, instead of deleting things.