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Painguy

Banned
Oct 26, 2017
1,024
California
Also my name is apparently Aretha Johnson

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I wish this person much success.

What's the weirdest email you ever received ERA?
 

thekonamicode

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,726
For YEARS I've been getting NetSpend updates for someone named Georgia. I don't even know what NetSpend is and I hope I'm not paying for it unwittingly!
 

Slayven

Never read a comic in his life
Moderator
Oct 25, 2017
93,180
One of my email accounts is the password reset account for somebody i never met
 

Elfgore

Member
Mar 2, 2020
4,580
One of my emails I must have been stupid with as a kid and it gets flooded with spam emails. Most are pretty generic, but one was just amazing. In broken English, I was told that they had pictures of my face during... "happy times". As well as all the stuff I was "happy timing to". It either told me my choices were interesting or scandalous, both are hilarious so I guess it doesn't matter. Cue normal stuff, "we'll show your friends and family, etc". It just stood out to me from the non-stop spam of "OMG!!!! Do you remember me, Elfgore?"
 

ThiefofDreams

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,481
For YEARS I've been getting NetSpend updates for someone named Georgia. I don't even know what NetSpend is and I hope I'm not paying for it unwittingly!
You might want to look into that because Netspend is like a bank for preloaded cards and you need to provide lots of verification to use it, including a social security number.
 

krae_man

Master of Balan Wonderworld
Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,604
One of my emails I must have been stupid with as a kid and it gets flooded with spam emails. Most are pretty generic, but one was just amazing. In broken English, I was told that they had pictures of my face during... "happy times". As well as all the stuff I was "happy timing to". It either told me my choices were interesting or scandalous, both are hilarious so I guess it doesn't matter. Cue normal stuff, "we'll show your friends and family, etc". It just stood out to me from the non-stop spam of "OMG!!!! Do you remember me, Elfgore?"

"We hacked your webcam and recorded you fapping. Give us bitcoins or we'll email it to your friends/employer" scam spam is common.

One of the customer service emails at work gets several of those a week.
 

Meatwad

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
3,653
USA
Oh I got that too, I thought somebody might have used my e-mail to make a fraudulent account, so I went there and tried to sign in with my e-mail and the username in the e-mail I received and it said there were no accounts with my e-mail on file
 

Typhon

Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,115
I get emails all the time from a construction company in New Hampshire, project updates, blueprints. I even sent an e-mail informing them they have the wrong person but they still come.
 

Distantmantra

Member
Oct 26, 2017
11,173
Seattle
Someone created a JUUL account with my email address. I've emailed JUUL multiple times letting them know it's not me, but I still get all the emails. Looks like some dude in California screwed up, but he keeps buying the stuff. I also got all the updates for someone's car that was getting repaired, as well as correspondence from someone's doctor who was going to have knee surgery in Kansas.

My address is [email protected], I was one of the first to use Gmail, so I get all kinds of weird emails for other people.
 

big_z

Member
Nov 2, 2017
7,797
Is it possible to search for onlyfans user accounts? On manyvids you can search/browse for models but onlyfans is just nothing as far as I can tell.
 

Rad Bandolar

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,036
SoCal
I get emails all the time from a construction company in New Hampshire, project updates, blueprints. I even sent an e-mail informing them they have the wrong person but they still come.
In that case, start replying that the work is unacceptable and not in accordance with the original design and contractual requirements.

Start criticizing everything. You don't even need to read it, just make stuff up.
 

RoadDogg

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,062
Someone I China used my email last week to make a Shopify account so they could leave their app (which looks like it ties to alibaba or something for inventory) a 5 star review. It is crazy that Shopify let them do it without verifying the email address first.

I get all kinds of emails though from all over the world. PTA groups, Neighborhood watches, parties, restaurant reservations, job applications, loan applications, insurance claims, eviction notices, everything. The best one I ever got was a $500 Amazon gift card someone sent to my email by mistake. I told Amazon so they could sort it out, but it was tempting for a minute.

If it is people obviously using the wrong email address on purpose to avoid using their own I will cancel their stuff. If it is an honest mistake I will help them figure out the mistake.
 

CONCHOBAR

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,912
It's not super weird, but I used to get emails that someone was trying to access my Epic Games account. They were legit too, sender checked out and there were no links directing me to a bogus login page. The weird thing was that I didn't (and still don't) have an Epic Games account.
 

Nocturnowl

Member
Oct 25, 2017
26,116
Some of the incredibly slipshod scam mails that go into my work mail are hilarious.
One of them was straight up bordering on Nigerian Prince territory, or the one that claimed that they knew I'd been looking at the most sordid of porn (on my work computer, at a hospital, yep) and would release the contents to friends and family, ruining my life, unless I supplied them with bitcoins or something.
 

Radiophonic

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,600
I used to run a website, and this one guy was a big poster on the forum I had tied to it. This guy's wife thought he must have been running the site given the topic, so she emailed me through the site, thinking I was him, going on about why didn't he get in touch with her about their daughter and all this other family drama shit. It was kinda depressing. I forwarded the email to him and he laughed it off, telling me she was nuts.
 

PHOENIXZERO

Member
Oct 29, 2017
12,096
"We hacked your webcam and recorded you fapping. Give us bitcoins or we'll email it to your friends/employer" scam spam is common.

One of the customer service emails at work gets several of those a week.
I was getting those all the time in my old primary e-mail, always got a bit of a laugh out of it.
 

Radiophonic

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,600
Some of the incredibly slipshod scam mails that go into my work mail are hilarious.
One of them was straight up bordering on Nigerian Prince territory, or the one that claimed that they knew I'd been looking at the most sordid of porn (on my work computer, at a hospital, yep) and would release the contents to friends and family, ruining my life, unless I supplied them with bitcoins or something.
I just got one of these, which had great stuff like "I saw what you were fapping to (omg you have great taste)" I did at least laugh at it, so kudos to you, anonymous hacker shit.
 
Jul 16, 2020
1,103
Years ago, when I first got my current phone number, I received all kinds of texts and phone calls from horny men about my availability. I searched my new phone number, and it was listed on dozens of websites for a woman named Julia's "sensual massage" service.
Spent days emailing webmasters to have the number taken down. Kept getting texts for a couple years. At least it was funny.
 
Oct 25, 2017
2,391
Just got one the other day about someone having some password with the password as the email title, even though the password was from like 10 years ago.

Said they had me looking at porn on webcam and was going to send them to my FB friends, even though I never had a webcam or facebook lol

Feel bad because they probably do get people with those scams.
 

smurfx

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
10,578
i managed to capture a popular cartoon name on gmail and i get random shit to my email all the time.
 

TheOther

Member
Jan 10, 2019
1,794
Texas
Apparently someone got into my OG Gmail account and forwarded all my emails to them.

I didn't know until I got a bank charge from eBay for some shit I APPARENTLY listed.
 

Deleted member 69573

User requested account closure
Banned
May 17, 2020
1,320
Melbourne, Australia
I once was copied into an email chain of an ex wife and her lawyer arguing about petty shit to her ex husband re who gets the most time with their child, among other things.

I have a very similar name to her husband apparently lol. Was entertaining while it lasted.
 

chirt

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,692
I keep getting Roblox password reset emails. Never played Roblox. Changed all my passwords just in case.
 

Walker_Boh

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,007
Boise, Idaho
I get emails from Netflix in Arabic addressed to my old hotmail account. I logged out of all my accounts to be safe but I still get them from time to time.
 

marmalade

Member
Nov 28, 2018
567
I had emails from a horse steroids company in my spam inbox until last month. I had assumed it was like some sort of Viagra spam deal, but it was a legit company that sells horse steroids to horse trainers.