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Thursday, July 28th, 2011 06:47 pm
tsaiko: Gif of a lemming falling off an edge (annoyed)
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So some of you may remember about me receiving confirmation for a trip to Paris and then later on login information for wi-fi access on a train from Paris to my email. Three guesses what I got today, and the first two don't count. If you said "An email for this lady again" you'd be right.

Seems Ms. Lastname has enrolled her boys in baseball camp and put my email address in as the contact. I got a receipt with her name and address, so now I know who the person is and where she lives. I tried emailing the camp back to explain the problem, but it bounced. Seems it was an auto email address that you can't reply to. A live person did contact me asking about the boys ages and I was able to inform her that she will need to contact Ms. Lastname in another fashion because she has once again given out my email address as hers.

But you know, now that I know Ms. Lastname's full name and address, I am sorely tempted to do a reverse look-up on her phone number. Maybe having the internets calling her will get her to realize that using the wrong email address for stuff can be a bad idea. I can just imagine the conversation.

"Hi Stacy[1]! How have you been? How are things over in Nowhere, OH? I hear the boys are going to be at baseball camp this summer. Pretty exciting. Did you enjoy your trip to Paris? It sounds like so much fun. Where else did you travel? I know the train ride there must have been interesting. Who is this? This is the person whose email address you keep accidentally giving out. That's how I know all this shit about you. Stop doing it." *click*

I think my good deed of the day is not moving forward with this idea. Stay good, Tsaiko. Stay good!


[1] Name and location changed so there is no hope of Ms. Lastname accidentally finding this post.

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Date: 7/29/11 12:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amatsubu.livejournal.com
I think my good deed of the day is not moving forward with this idea.

No, no you SHOULD so do this!!!!

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Date: 7/29/11 03:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kit-maxel.livejournal.com
Yeah, I think you should do it. She needs the wakeup call.

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Date: 7/29/11 05:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] broken-moons.livejournal.com
You should definitely contact her - once is a fluke, twice... well, fine. But three times? This lady obviously has no idea what her actual e-mail address is. A good deed would be to let her know.
Though, maybe without the sarcasm. ;)

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Date: 7/29/11 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] doctorskuld.livejournal.com
Agreed. I'd politely file some correspondence with her letting her know that you've gotten e-mails intended for her three times now, along with highly sensitive information. I wouldn't do a look up for her on the phone though, but if you told the baseball camp people and ask them to relay the message, that should probably take care of it.

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Date: 7/29/11 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwengwel.livejournal.com
I fourth this. She obviously doesn't have an idea of how internet work. Think of it at your good action for the world.

On the other side, I'm temped to tell you to let it go just to see were's this going to go...!

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Date: 7/29/11 01:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sasami.livejournal.com
I agree with the commenters that someone needs to contact her and tell her to stop this.

However, I agree that not calling her on the phone was a good idea. She's likely to freak out and then anything can happen, very little of it good.

Hopefully the baseball camp people can set her straight.

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Date: 7/30/11 12:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kayay.livejournal.com
Contact her. She needs to realize how dangerous it is to repeatedly give out the wrong email address. Aside from identity theft, a cruel bored person could harass her and her boys.

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