I'll Fill You In Later

909s:

I have a very common last name.  My gmail.com email address (z smith at gmail dot com) is a very easy-to-remember, generic one.  (I was an early adopter.)  As a result of this, I get email every day from people who either think I’m their friend “Zahir” or “Zelda” or even another “Zack”, mistakenly give out my email address (when theirs is something like zsmith10@gmail.com) and have all their friends/colleagues reply to it, sign up for a site/service using my email address by mistake, have purchase receipts — even full tax returns, with social security numbers and everything on it — sent to me by mistake, or simply try to email things to themselves, failing horribly, and sometimes sending me naked photos of their girlfriends by mistake. (Not joking.)  I do the responsible thing and let them know that they’ve contacted the wrong person.

Usually by replying in some sort of horrible, sarcastic fashion.

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