Is someone using my email address, how can I know for sure?
I have had a GMail ever since it was created, so it's an email address that is easy to remember, but also easy for somebody else to get confused with.
Since I'm not going to post my email address here, I'll put the format for it which is [first name][2 digit number]@gmail.com. Because of this, somebody unknowingly (or knowingly) has been using my email address to sign up for all sorts of things and now my inbox is even more full of junk.
I was able to get his information (name, address, etc) from all the places that he's signed up for using my email, but I have been unable to find him to get a hold of him about this matter. I have also had to get a hold of all sorts of places that he's used my email to tell them that he has it wrong and all they will do is remove my email and won't try to tell him he's got the wrong email address.
It is starting to become very time consuming and annoying that I have to get all these emails and have to get it removed. If I just ignore/delete these emails, then there's just going to be more and more of them.
I'm wondering if anyone has had this happen before and if there's any solution for this sort of thing?
The solution for someone using my email address is that -
You can start giving your address out as [first name][2 digit number][+][last name]@gmail.com. Gmail ignores everything after the + and you can filter for emails which don't include your last name. (It would probably be worth going through the filtered emails every ~week to catch emails from people who you haven't told to use the new address yet.)