Should I help the idiot?

[frualeydis]

I am battling with my conscience right now. I just received a booking confirmation for a flight I haven't booked. Some idiot in Stockholm has given my e-mail address when booking on the internet. I've got her phon enumber, it's in the e-mail. Now, should I call her and tell her that maybe, just maybe, she should consider giving her own e-mail address and not some complete stranger's when she books tickets on-line.
The thing is, this happens to me at least once a week. Not the same person, though some people tend to do it a lot. There's for instance one woman in Motala who has ordered CDs, signed upp for singles' activities and applied for an apartment using my e-mail address. For me it doesn't matter, the purchases are of course linked to her identity number and address, not to my e-mail and I can always unsubscribe from crossword-clubs and the like, but it is a bit annoying. There are also others; there's a group of square dancers in Scania who keep sending me e-mails and one district of the Asthma and Allergy society sent me copies of all their e-mails and gave my address to the hotel they tried to book for a conference and the lecturer who was to come to the conference. In those cases I did send e-amils to the concerned people so that they would actually get their hotel and the lecturer wouldn't have to stand alone in the middle of nowhere, waiting for someone to pick him up who never came. And there's lots of answers from different customer's services I've never asked questions to etc, non-official reports from companies (in this case the sender got really snotty and unpleasant just because we suggested that it might be a good idea to check the e-mail address before sending out non-public information)
But in this case I presume that she will contact the travel company if she doesn't get a confirmation, so I don't think it's to call her and tell her about it. Especially since I'm too well behaved to tell her that she's a fucking idiot, which is what I want to do.
Other people complain about spam. I don't like spam either, but at least then I don't have to write e-mails or call strangers to sort out the messes they've made just because they don't know their own bloody e-mail adress If you can't remember your own address you shouldn't be allowed near the internet.

Comments

[edmndclotworthy.livejournal.com]

Reply to the email and cancel the flight.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

/Eva

[annalindqvist.livejournal.com]

Is your e-mail adress easy to write wrong? Otherwise, I agree! If you can´t spell your e-mail adress you shouldn´t use it...

If it´s the first time this happens (with her) don´t call her.

Anna

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

I don't agree. It's probably a phising scam. They're trying to get your credit card numbers etc -- you'll probably have to give it to them so that you can cancel the flight.

Somebody has associated my email address with a house in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. I get trash from that all the time.

I get stuff from PayPal that I haven't ordered (and the emails *aren't* from PayPal at all).

IMO, based on personal experience, this is *fake* Don't follow any of the links in the email if you do follow up on it.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I have the second most common first name and the second most common last name in Sweden. I also have the biggest e-mail address provider. I have been in contact with quite a few of these people who's e-mail I've got and they all are (apparently) rather stupid Eva Anderssons. There's at least ten of them. One of them has the same address but without a dot, but my favourite is the one who has my (and her) name and a two-digit number added in the end. This number she, however, removed, when she gave her address to a yarn company who sent me her invoice. I talked to her, since her phone number was in the e-mail. She insisted that she had the same address as me. Aftyer a while she mentioned the numbers, but "since they aren't a part of my name I removed them". *headdesk*
And it can't be phishing thsi time either, since it's already paid and they don't want me to confirm it, it's my electronic ticket. So I can fly from Stockholm to Umeå on Wednesday if I want to.

/Eva

[sismith42.livejournal.com]

Is the flight for the same idiot? If so, just ignore it, otherwise you should just assume it was just an honest mistake, and phone her. Just because there are tons of stupid people out there doesn't necissarily mean that she's one of them. You also might want to change your email address, so you don't have to deal with this anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

> So I can fly from Stockholm to Umeå on Wednesday if I want to.

IT'S A SIGN, BABY!!!

/Sara

[camele0pard.livejournal.com]

That must be so annoying. Makes me want to keep my unique last name even more... But you know, the right thing to do is really to call her and make sure she gets her ticket... Hopefully she'll have the decency to be grateful and apologetic about it. If I'd made the same mistake, I know I'd be crawling under the carpet in embarrasement!

[amonik.livejournal.com]

It's only happened to me once, but then my first name isn't as common as yours. She had switched the first and last names. I texted her asking for the correct address. If it happened all the time I would probably just ignore it though.