So here's a weird one. About a year ago I became aware that a guy in Canada has the same name as me and his email in Gmail is almost identical except for him having a full stop in the middle which gmail far to often ignores. This means I get his emails, especially his dodgy orders. Todays is some Gelato Feminized Marijuana seeds... $169. 95 wow that seems expensive. Of course I have his address too and I was thinking wouldn't it be nice to book him in for some drug rehabilitation classes, maybe asking for help (subscription) from religious groups. There must be so many ways I can milk this, maybe even annoy him enough to change his email so I don't keep getting his crap emails...
What a dreadful thing to do! I couldn't possibly condone such behaviour!
I bet hes thinking the same with your email address,
Ive had some wicked thoughts with some of the information i have gleened over the years, and trust me one name i have info on, is VERY well known,
i could write a book about them, or more, but a really close friend of mine, well, he was almost a brother, and i dont have one!, had got some
incredible evidence, that i still have, yet it cost him his life, he committed suicide in 2014, and i mis my best friend incredibly
All because of the information he had.................................
It's not exactly illegal to buy Marijuana seeds. There is a actually a shop far from me that sells them. They are for display and keepsake use
only. If he was to germinate them however..............
Not sure how you sex a seed however???
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Originally posted by Irony
Not sure how you sex a seed however???
You don't share a similar email address, he's just using yours to order dodgy stuff where an email address is required. I assume you've
changed password and are sure he's not actually logging into it?
Google does not in *any way* differentiate between a.b@gmail.com and ab@gmail.com, they are aliases of the same account. You can sign into both using
the same password.
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
You don't share a similar email address, he's just using yours to order dodgy stuff where an email address is required. I assume you've changed password and are sure he's not actually logging into it?
Google does not in *any way* differentiate between a.b@gmail.com and ab@gmail.com, they are aliases of the same account. You can sign into both using the same password.
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
You don't share a similar email address, he's just using yours to order dodgy stuff where an email address is required. I assume you've changed password and are sure he's not actually logging into it?
Google does not in *any way* differentiate between a.b@gmail.com and ab@gmail.com, they are aliases of the same account. You can sign into both using the same password.
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You don't share a similar email address, he's just using yours to order dodgy stuff where an email address is required. I assume you've changed password and are sure he's not actually logging into it?
Google does not in *any way* differentiate between a.b@gmail.com and ab@gmail.com, they are aliases of the same account. You can sign into both using the same password.
Stick your email address in this site, if it comes up as breached, change your passwords, including for any sites connected to your email.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Dave
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Originally posted by obfripper
Stick your email address in this site, if it comes up as breached, change your passwords, including for any sites connected to your email.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Dave
Im a sceptical sod, i wouldnt put my email address anywhere near a "checking service" that would ring alarm bells, of being scammed !
Are you sure the strange emails are actually not just spam and the like, as we all get this crap stuff, and every day when checking my emails, i get
stuff that is completely weird ranging from Breast enlargment to dodgy lawers in Nigeria want to give me 62 million pounds
i just stick them in the spam folder
steve
For a Canadian, it's not dodgy. We're allowed to grow our own crop, but we are limited to the number of plants.
But, I understand the email issue. I was getting job offers for NDT work in the North Sea, and an accepted offer on a house in Aberdeen all because
someone had a very similar email to me. Somedays I wish I had accepted the job offers.
another trick you can do with gmail addresses is add a suffix, so you can verify / sort incoming mail easily by using a plus sign.
ie
myname@gmail.com
can be extended to
myname+lcb@gmail.com
so anything to that address indicates who it is from. but still delivered to your inbox
[quote][i]Originally posted by steve m[/i]
Im a sceptical sod, i wouldnt put my email address anywhere near a "checking service" that would ring alarm bells, of being scammed !
Are you sure the strange emails are actually not just spam and the like, as we all get this crap stuff, and every day when checking my emails, i get
stuff that is completely weird ranging from Breast enlargment to dodgy lawers in Nigeria want to give me 62 million pounds
i just stick them in the spam folder
steve [/quote]
The site's safe, the author's is well known in software/cyber security circles and he uses the statistical data from the site to help
highlight security issues and show people why reusing passwords is not a good idea.
There are some websites that use his api when new accounts are created, to block users from re-using hacked passwords, and also to block commonly used
passwords (as most hackers use the common combinations from 500,000,000+ existing exploited passwords as a means of extracting other exploited but
encrypted passwords, reducing the brute force decryption times from years to minutes.)
https://haveibeenpwned.com/About
If you know your email etc is out there, you can at least mitigate your details being used by changing passwords, enabling 2step verification etc.
Dave
[Edited on 18/11/20 by obfripper]