The pain of being a nerd.

[reynardo]

Now I have a gmail account of the same name as this. To be honest, I'm "reynardo" or a variation of it all over the internet - except in a few places, where I try to keep things a bit separate.

But the problem with the name "Reynardo" on Gmail is that other people keep thinking it's their account. Or they have a variation (such as "Reynardo1415") and only put the letters in. So I've had Itunes registrations, confirmations of conference bookings, even notices to pick up a credit card, all not for me.

There does seem to be one person, though, who keeps signing up for dating services under that email address. I've had to advise a whole heap of places that no, I shan't be confirming my registration for the Big Busted Babes of Boston Baseball this week, or ever! When they signed up for Instagram, I attempted to contact them to let them know they were using the wrong email address, but not a hope.

Today, though, it got personal. Whoever it is, their computer is infected with a virus or malware. Whoever it is, their computer (in the Philippines) is sending out SPAM emails for "Let Google Pay You" scam to 1001 addresses.

And of course, their emails have my email address as the sender.

Now, any tech support person seeing that email would immediately be able to check the header, see that it's from another site altogether, and contact the originating computer's ISP to have their connection turned off until they clean their bloody machine.

But a non-techie is going to see the "From: reynardo@gmail.com" and think they've found the twit.

I'm only getting the auto-bounces so far. I'm expecting the written "stop or I'll tell on you" emails any moment now.

Great.

Today's not been good. This will be the (im)perfect icing on the cake.

Comments

[feodora.livejournal.com]

I am Feodora on nearly any place in the internet and only on FB and a businessplatform called XING im an on with my realname. I too try to keep it separate.

Feodora is luckyly not sooo common, but I have some problems on twitter as anyone could use @feodora in their tweets. The last month there where many posts like this with "sexual" photos and @feodora! I reported all the accounts and the last weeks it became much less.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Dammit, that sucks. *hugs*

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[akatnamedeaster.livejournal.com]

What a complete pain in the ass! I've gotten those malware e-mails too but I've only ever just deleted them, never felt moved to get shirty with the person. Hopefully it goes that way with you.

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

My personal gmail account sometimes gets email meant for someone else. I feel ya. Hopefully a lot of those things will get trapped in the spam folder instead.

[luvscharlie.livejournal.com]

Oh what a pain in the butt! I'm like you-- I'm pretty much "luvscharlie" everywhere and at one point there was a girl who was "luvs_charlie" on a site and I was getting stuff for her. It died out quickly as she wasn't that active, but yeah, a real pain.

Though it does seem her computer dating life was far more dull than your alter ego there.

[phoenix-fancies.livejournal.com]

Ungh! I hate this. My real name isn't very common in the US, but in the UK and Australia there are so many people! (like 10?) that have my names. Seriously, I don't want a pre-pay phone in the UK.

Also - one is seriously an 'animal whisperer'. People dragging my good name around...

Good luck in your battles.