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On Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:27:46 +0200
Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> wrote:

> Sylvia Else wrote:
>=20
> >I received an email, apparently genuine, from Pizza Hut confirming my=20
> >order of a pizza.
> >
> >Thing is, I made no such order, and the pickup place is several thousand=
=20
> >kilometres away.
> >
> >The immediate thought was identity theft, but according to the email,=20
> >the pizza was paid for with cash.
>=20
> I get this all the time, it's just a typo of somebody who does not know
> his mail address:
> I get invited to weddings, birthdays and meetings of old classmates, I
> bought a tractor, I applied for a job at Siemens, Munich, I got a
> lawyer's bill for services related to a divorce, I seduced a girl in
> Poland who complained that I didn't write her back. Just recently my
> "sister" asked me if I had sold "our" father's house.
> Of course I am not connected to any of these things, it's just a couple
> of guys by the same name as me who have similar mail addresses.=20
> BTW: The girl in Poland at first didn't believe me when I wrote to her
> that it wasn't me who seduced her, only when I sent her a photo of my
> passport she realized that the guy (a trucker passing through) probably
> intentionally gave her the wrong mail address.
> And I even made a phonecall to the guy with the tractor because this was
> the only way of contacting him and telling him that he had actually
> bought the tractor, so it was J=F6rg Walther calling J=F6rg Walther. :)
>=20
Strangely, even (maybe especially?) though I have a quite
commo^popular name (& email provider),  I rarely get stuff sent to someone
that's clearly not me.
Only in the early days did I get a few with a screed at the end stating
"if you are not the intended recipient of this email delete it immediately
before reading" or somesuch.

--=20
Bah, and indeed Humbug.