Comment Re:It's Happening to Me Right Now (Score 1) 259
A thing quite like that happened to me about two years ago... My email address was rbjeffries@mindspring.com there was another person on mindspring who apparently THOUGHT that his email was rbjeffries@mindspring.com, and he used that in a bunch of things, such as daily porn pictures, webpage accounts, etc. The interesting thing about this is that I also received an email about a buisness conference he had signed up for, and it had a website of which he was a member, and I received the url of a webpage which (basically) he had filled in a few pages worth of information about him, including his full name, street address, phone number, age, fax number, information about his computer, information about kids and his wife (he had neither), about how much money he made each year. Basically all the information one would need to do anything that this dude would not appreciate. I dealed with this for a few months (it was quite funny to read his personal email) but by the time i was getting 10 emails a day that were mostly ads, always at least 1 porn picture, and occasionally "personal" email, I became fed up and changed email addresses. Wouldn't a person realize that they weren't getting email?
