paulzolo wrote: Every so often, I get a spate of emails to my gmail inbox. These messages are either from or to and other person with my name. The general formula seems to be:
first name + last name + @gmail.com = person I am thinking about (or me), and the assumption being that the message will get to the person I am thinking of.
This week, I’ve had an email from an Apple Store in Australia where someone has had an iPhone 3GS replaced after a repeated fault could not be repaired. The messages contained the phone’s serial an IMEI numbers.
I also had a DropBox registration. Someone has bought an HTC phone, and got a 23GB DropBox allowance for that. They used my gmail address, and so guess who gets the emails? Yup - me. It was suggested that I drop a “we are watching you” message on the account, which was funny. But I am generally helpful, so I changed the password, and dropped a note asking him to use a different email address (and gave him the new password so he could make changes via a web browser). That was last night. Today, I checked, and no changes have been made - though there is a phone backup on there now.
Today, another email from a company in Australia. Clearly someone is looking for some kind of real estate or property deal. I’ve been promised contact from that company, but as it’s a no reply@ email address that message came from, there’s not a lot I can do. So I await the eventual emails, with no doubt confidential information in them, to start to filter through. I wonder if he’s the same iPhone person, or another one. | 
