[174756] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolai)
Mon Sep 29 13:12:28 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:06:29 +0000
From: Nicolai <nicolai-nanog@chocolatine.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5428D540.7080904@tnetconsulting.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:42:56PM -0500, Grant Taylor wrote:
> Specifically she is receiving emails for <first name><middle initial><last
> name>@gmail.com (no dots) when her email address is really <same first
> name>.<same middle initial>.<same last name>@gmail.com (dots).
>
> I don't know if this is a "feature" or a "bug", but either way, it's
> disquieting my wife. (Unhappy wife = unhappy life.)
Have your wife log in while omitting the dots, using e.g. "janeqpublic"
instead of "jane.q.public" as the username. She'll see there's only
one account, and it's her's, and that someone just typed the wrong
address.
Most likely reason: gmail is so common that someone mistypes
johnsmith@example.com as johnsmith@gmail.com, not paying attention to
what they're doing. It happens.
Nicolai
