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Re: Sidebar - Gmail dotted email addresses

 

Ellen,

However, I had to tell Apple where I lived
... They did check somehow and got back to me and said it was fine. Just scrap the email and don¡¯t worry about it.

Odd that they needed any information from you just to invalidate the incorrect email address. Just the fact that you received the email and are not the person named ought to have been enough. Oh well.

Scary to think that people can order things online and someone else has to pay for it because of a dot.

It doesn't happen quite that easily - in the case cited by Jeremy the victim must act on a request for updated credit card info without noticing that there is an inconsistency in either the card number or the address cited in the request. Hence Moral 1 - always be suspicious of confirmation requests that arrive "out of the blue".

But yes, the bad guys are always looking for an angle.

Shal


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