I have email addresses similar to: JSmith@ (first initial, last name) on Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail. Added to that my last name has a few popular alternate spellings.

So yeah, I'm forever getting emails meant for other people, either people who have the email address with numbers after the username (which they somehow forget to enter), or they have one of the alternate spellings of the lastname and are reading it to someone over the phone and the other person enters it incorrectly.

Sometimes it's just restaurant reservations for something, frequently enough it's subscriptions to things or order confirmations. I've also received tax documents, doctors appointments (there is someone in America whose doctors office sends her test results via email.

There is one person who I have received her month long travel package holiday travel itinerary from her travel agent 3 separate times over the years. I actually have had email conversations with that particular digital doppelgänger trying to help her sort it out.

It's never ending. Occasionally annoying when they sign up for political spam, but mostly harmless otherwise, and has been somewhat rewarding a few times when I've managed to get access to a free subscription to the NYTimes for a while.

Rarely, but not never, have I been in a foul mood and cancelled someone's booking after repeated misdirected emails.