Re: PIzza - odd.

On Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:27:46 +0200
Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> wrote:

Sylvia Else wrote:
 

I received an email, apparently genuine, from Pizza Hut confirming my
order of a pizza.
>
Thing is, I made no such order, and the pickup place is several thousand
kilometres away.
>
The immediate thought was identity theft, but according to the email,
the pizza was paid for with cash.

 
I get this all the time, it's just a typo of somebody who does not know
his mail address:
I get invited to weddings, birthdays and meetings of old classmates, I
bought a tractor, I applied for a job at Siemens, Munich, I got a
lawyer's bill for services related to a divorce, I seduced a girl in
Poland who complained that I didn't write her back. Just recently my
"sister" asked me if I had sold "our" father's house.
Of course I am not connected to any of these things, it's just a couple
of guys by the same name as me who have similar mail addresses.
BTW: The girl in Poland at first didn't believe me when I wrote to her
that it wasn't me who seduced her, only when I sent her a photo of my
passport she realized that the guy (a trucker passing through) probably
intentionally gave her the wrong mail address.
And I even made a phonecall to the guy with the tractor because this was
the only way of contacting him and telling him that he had actually
bought the tractor, so it was Jörg Walther calling Jörg Walther. :)
 

Strangely, even (maybe especially?) though I have a quite
commo^popular name (& email provider),  I rarely get stuff sent to someone
that's clearly not me.
Only in the early days did I get a few with a screed at the end stating
"if you are not the intended recipient of this email delete it immediately
before reading" or somesuch.

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.