Post #1604417

2026-04-23 23:54 UTC

Someone in #Denver is absolutely convinced their email address is samuel.proulx@gmail.com. Nope! It’s one of my email addresses! Last year I got their license to sell weed in the state of #Colorado, complete with a nice PDF card for me to print out and put in my wallet. Today, I’m getting multiple emails from Best Western that they need to complete their employee onboarding. When I let HR know about the problem, they emailed me back requiring that I provide the correct email address. WTF? How should I know! I’ve tried multiple times to track this person down with no success. Including a snail mail postcard asking them to please stop entering my email address into things, and figure out what their email address is and use that instead. But no luck. If you are, or know, Samuel Proulx who lives in Denver, used to work at a weed shop, and is now about to start a job at VIB Best Western (assuming you upload your documents into the online portal that you don’t have a link to because you gave the wrong email address), please let them know that samuel.proulx@gmail.com is not their email address! And they should stop saying it is on important government and employment documents! Because I get that email! Complete with addresses, licenses, tax info, and other private information! I would like to not get this person’s private life in my inbox anymore.

Replies (6)

@fastfinge@fed.interfree.ca 2026-04-23 23:58

I got their mailing address because I get multiple receipts and shipping notifications for purchases they make. I’d phone them, but none of the emails to date have included a phone number.

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@lorimolson@mstdn.ca 2026-04-24 04:16

@fastfinge I have the same problem, with the icloud.com version of my email (.mac .me .icloud are all THE SAME email address). Some Lori Olson down in Seattle. I get all her appointment confirmations, her pizza order receipts, etc.

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@mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca 2026-04-24 02:25

@fastfinge Lolololol!!!! I got an email from a psychiatrist in France about a 6-year-old child that had a bunch of huge issues. This was supposed to go to his mother. The dude told me not to read it; which I said I wouldn't, but did. Quite interesting little fella. he liked to bite... a lot. I also got an invitation to a huge family gathering in France, again. I did reach out, but they wouldn't believe I wasn't the person that they were trying to reach. I finally just said that I'd show up and couldn't wait to see them. People are weird.

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@clv1@mementomori.social 2026-04-24 00:30

@fastfinge I would create another e-mail, on another provider, and start quitting GMail.

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@jscholes@dragonscave.space 2026-04-24 00:15

@fastfinge Them asking you for the correct email is, as I believe some people say, chef's kiss. I don't know why they say it and find it quite irritating when they do but I digress.

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@tjolsen@masto.nyc 2026-04-24 00:10

@fastfinge A friend of mine has a similar problem he has both the Gmail and Yahoo version of his firstname.lastname. for this other similarly named person he's received sports tickets, divorce documents, onboarding docs and much more.

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