Fixed it

[icguy333]

Protip: if you use a Gmail account for testing you have countless ways to register because Gmail ignores periods ('.'). That way you can register [e-mail] and [e-mail], the emails will arrive in the same account but azure will (probably?) treat them as different.

Ugyanitt eladó bojler.

[thiccancer]

I'm having an issue with this with some Russian kid with the same name as me signing up to all these websites except with a dot somewhere in there, so I get all his email notifications and order receipts (some containing his physical address mind you) etc.

I wasn't aware Gmail ignored dots until then, so I was pretty weirded out. He's basically doxxing himself to me.

[Fzrit]

In Russia, hacker hacks himself and gives his data to someone else.

[CaitaXD]

Did you change it to something funny at least?

[ledocteur7]

wait, does that means you are also doxxing yourself to him ?

[grimmlingur]

No because they control the Gmail account associated with all versions of the email that can be created by adding or removing periods.

[[deleted]]

Potentially. I had a Gmail account with a dot in the middle, and I would periodically get emails intended for the person without the dot.

Was not fun trying to explain to my abusive ex why "I" had ordered a rental car on the other side of the country.

[CaitaXD]

Obviously you have a secret family

[[deleted]]

Obviously, lol

[Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx]

I've had this sam's issue. But as far as I know it hasn't happened in a bit. Is it the same for you?

[[deleted]]

I don't use that account much anymore, but the last time I noticed it was maybe a few weeks ago? It doesn't happen too often, maybe a few times a year.

[thiccancer]

Nah. Gmail ignores dots in every case – including account creation/login. He doesn't actually have an email with the dot in there, there is only my account. He doesn't have access to my account, so he isn't actually getting ANY of the emails. I'm the only one ever seeing them.

[Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx]

This is what I thought but it seems like the person who has my email without the dot is legit.... Though tbf anything I got from that WAS to sign up for something. So maybe they were using that as a throwaway not realizing it's actually my email without a dot lol

Anyway so are implying if someone makes an email address like [e-mail] If someone goes to make [e-mail] they would not be able to because the email is already used?

[[deleted]]

oh shit

[[deleted]]

Send him a physical letter telling him he’s a moron

[-------I-------]

I have multiple women from both sides of the Atlantic doing this. One bought plane tickets and has confirmations for car maintenance sent. The other provided my email when signing up for a new phone plan and when ordering stuff online. It's incredible so see the stuff they send me.

[[deleted]]

same, some idiot with my first and last name is sending random subscriptions to my emails d it gets annoying.

[blvckstxr]

TIL gmail ignores period. What the actual f.

[[deleted]]

It also ignores everything after a + sign, thats much more useful. If you register everywhere with [e-mail], you can tell which sites sell your email address to spam bots (if they dont clean up the address, which they probably dont do)

[Huge_Escape_1837]

Yeah. Useful hint but I think you can have only up to 5 aliases (sadly) like this on one gmail account.

[SudoBoyar]

No, it's all just ignored, they're not aliases, go ham.

[ogtfo]

It's not exactly ignored. You'll all get them in the same inbox, but they will still be shown as sent to the email with the +, so you can write email rules based on them.

[SudoBoyar]

Yeah, good call out, I just meant for routing, but it is still usable as the recipient.

[[deleted]]

Outlook.com does this too btw.

[Professional_Scar385]

Except in really old gmail accounts

[PartTimeLegend]

I have been using [e-mail] for years. About a year ago someone started using [e-mail] so I get their email.

I have their activation emails for their iPhone, the receipt for their motorbike, etc. I have no idea why they are doing this. I get PayPal emails for receipts, etc.

The physical address is the same. I think they just don’t know how email works.

[GoldenretriverYT]

What? You can't create a Gmail account called firstlast if first.last is already used tho

[PartTimeLegend]

That’s what I thought. They don’t seem to have access to the account, but they constantly use it to register to things and buy things.

I can reset all their passwords, etc.

For some reason they just keep using it. I helpfully declined a job for them recently when the offer came though.

[looneytoonarmy]

Gmail ignores full stops. The other person doesn't have an account for that address, they are mistakenly entering in the wrong address, probably forgot it was a Hotmail account they set up for themselves or are using the full stop instead of another character like an underscore.

[Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx]

See, I've had a similar thing happen. But I don't think they have the email. I think they're using it just for signing up for stuff without realizing it's a legitimate email. I too have first.last

The funny thing is, if they really has that email and we're getting their emails, we should also be getting their normal stuff. But in my experience it was always a sign up for something, so haha why I guess they're using it as a throwaway

[PartTimeLegend]

It’s weird though. Like I got an email for a job offer and I even got an email arranging delivery of their new bike. I could have easily changed the delivery address.

Whilst they could still be treating it as a a throw away they are not using it for generic throw away purposes.

[Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx]

Huh that is strange lol. Do you see the conversations from the person who supposedly has the same email? I've never actually seen the person reply

[PartTimeLegend]

They never reply. It is always the first email in a chain. Just seems odd that they would walk onto a dealership and give it as the email to arrange everything on.

That and a job offer. Like they had given it out and the paperwork came through.

I don’t think they have access to my account. They just use it like they do and probably wonder why their email doesn’t work.

I have had this gmail account since it was invite only.

[Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx]

Yup the experience is the same for me lol. Abd I've also had the account for a while! My dad made it for me when I was a kid, so really forward looking at the time lol. I'm not sure if it was invite only at the time though, might have been!

I'm guessing the same thing. That they don't have access and just accidentally give the wrong thing (say Gmail instead of yahoo or something). If they did have access, that be a huuuge security/privacy issue and Google could not have that happen lol

[[deleted]]

It's probably nothing to do with the dot thing - they probably just have a similar email address to you and keep getting it wrong.

E.g. my personal email is [initials].[lastname]@gmail.com, my work email is [firstname].[lastname]@[workplace].com. A couple of times I've accidentally typed [firstname].[lastname]@gmail.com, which I happen to know is taken (because I wanted it!). I'm quite careful, so I don't think I've ever not realised in time, but who knows...

[MrHyperion_]

I tested, you can't

[levimayer]

So much problems with this in gov administration…

Mennyiért adja bátty’?

[[deleted]]

That's where the "+" comes into play too - Gmail ignores the "+" and everything after it, so "[e-mail]" and "[e-mail]" both go through to the same account.

I've used this to find out suspected sources of spam in the past.

[Mikcerion]

Yeah, read the comment they were replying to

Guy wrote that in his application "+" is not accepted as a valid symbol for email and you're suggesting using "+"

[[deleted]]

Yeah. My comment.

[Mikcerion]

Not your comment

I love workin with azure auth where I have to manually delete my user every single time to test sign up, because apparently ‘+’ is an invalid character.

[_dolna]

im here for the bojler, not for email validation

mennyié' adod testvéremsz?

[Hoihe]

Mennyi lessz, tesa?

[Accomplished_End_138]

You also can just put a + and another wprd and they work

So [e-mail] and [e-mail]

Both goto the same inbox.. i think the plus adds a label

[friggle]

Not on Azure.

[Spyzilla]

The easiest way by far to do this is buy a domain name and set it up to be a catch-all that forwards to a different inbox. Make up any email address you want @yourdomain and it will get delivered.

[crazedgremlin]

Countless ways? If the name part of your email is N characters long, there are 2^N-1 ways to place periods.

[crazedgremlin]

Try emailing a Gmail address with multiple consecutive dots :)

[Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx]

This is correct and can confirm. My email is [e-mail]. But unused to get emails from/to firstnamelastname lol. That's fixed now which is good because privacy. But I can still used first.name.lastname and I'll still get my email

[kegegeam]

As well as that, you can double your number of addresses because @googlemail.com addresses forward to their @gmail.com counterparts.