This seems incredibly rampant on gmail.
On the one hand I signed up early enough to have <common non-english surname><first initial>@gmail.com
Unfortunately people in countries of my parents native language seem to think my email address is theirs, and I get EVERYTHING. Vacation photos, medical records, car service reminders, the whole lot.
What's interesting is that none of the spam filters seem to have a "I'm a dumb American, I cannot read this language, therefore anything in this language should be spam" rule.
Unfortunately people in countries of my parents native language seem to think my email address is theirs, and I get EVERYTHING. Vacation photos, medical records, car service reminders, the whole lot.
What's interesting is that none of the spam filters seem to have a "I'm a dumb American, I cannot read this language, therefore anything in this language should be spam" rule.