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Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2024 16:37:39 -0300
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Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> writes:

> Sylvia Else wrote:
>
>>I received an email, apparently genuine, from Pizza Hut confirming my 
>>order of a pizza.
>>
>>Thing is, I made no such order, and the pickup place is several thousand 
>>kilometres away.
>>
>>The immediate thought was identity theft, but according to the email, 
>>the pizza was paid for with cash.
>
> 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. 
> 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 Jörg Walther calling Jörg Walther. :)

Amazing stories. :) Some years ago I would every now and then get family
members sending me pictures and saying how nice the party was or
whatever.  I'd reply to all of them saying that they had reached the
wrong person.  Same family name.  Most likely first name with the same
initial.  The interesting thing is that I think nobody ever replied to
even say thanks.  (Or maybe once I got a reply.)

I used to work at a place and my desk phone number would end with 7000.
There was a period that about twice a month or maybe once a week, the
same guy would call and ask me the banana price.  Lol.  Surely he was
dialing the wrong number, but very often.  Weird.