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halleybird


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So I have an old hotmail account, which is basically my maiden name (ie, firstnamelastname@hotmail.com). I basically use it for junk mail now, or for when I have to input my email address for something online. I check it periodically to throw out the junk mail, and I also occasionally get messages from people who haven't seen me in a long time and wouldn't know that I changed my email  -- like old college roommates, HS buddies, etc.


So anyhow, for about a year, I have been getting emails from this girl I don't know. They were basically forwards, sent to like 50 people, myself included. Her name sounded familiar, and for awhile I thought that maybe she was someone I had a college class with, and that she'd saved my email address (I am bad with names), so I just deleted them.   But as time went on, I started to get other emails from her, sent to me and 6 or 7 other people -- the kind of emails you'd send to your close friends and family, like "Look at my vacation pictures!" or "Anyone want to see X movie with me?" They are not creepy or anything, just personal!


I had sent her a couple of responses in the past, like "hey, I think you have the wrong address" but she ignored them. After her last message, I wrote:



"Hi, I don't know who you are, but I keep getting email from you! I am pretty sure I do not know you; please check your address book. Thanks."


Her reply:


Erin- I got this email from you!  Wierd...


...with my previous message forwarded back to me (!!!!)


Today I got another message from her, sent to me and only ONE other person:


hey ladies. i am carpooling tomorrow and i am going to try to leave early but i dont know if it will work or not.  If i don't make it in time I will go to abs and gluts tomorrow night, wanna come?
Now I am sure I don't know her!  How do I get this chick to stop sending me mail? I feel very intrusive reading it. Also, does she ever wonder why her friend Erin never writes her back? Does anyone know if Hotmail has a "block user" function?

-- Edited by halleybird at 22:27, 2005-11-28

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kenzie


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Oh, that is weird.  I would try to e-mail her one more time telling her that you don't know her.  I can't help you with the block user thing b/c I have no idea. 



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She probably has you confused w/ a different person w/ the same first/last name.  I had that happen to me a while ago.  Apparently there was a person floating around w/ the same name as me.  I have a first/last name email account like you.  Just tell her she has the wrong Halleybird and has had for some time.  If she keeps emailing you, I'd ignore them or mark them as "junk" and have them go straight to your junk folder.  At least you tried!

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halleybird


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you'd think that sometime in the course of a year, she and her friend would have had the, "didn't you get my email about ____" conversation and she'd have put 2 and 2 together! Sheesh!

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Claudia


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yes, you can block her.



  1. Click Options.
  2. On the left side of the page, click Mail.
  3. Click Junk E-mail Protection, and then Block Senders to show your Block Sender List.
  4. Enter an e-mail address or domain, and then click Add.
  5. Use the Add and Remove buttons to change the list.


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This is funny and creepy!  I would e-mail back and say she has got the wrong person and she should get it figured out because you will now be blocking her e-mail address.



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blink


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no, the only similar situation I have had was when Spammers send personal sounding emails to make sure the address is still working.


if she isn't a spammer, she's pretty uninformed.  I wouldn't bother emailing her since it didn't work the first time, just block her.


OR, you could offer to go with her when she invites you somewhere and see what happens.  THAT would be funny.



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lorelei wrote:

OR, you could offer to go with her when she invites you somewhere and see what happens.  THAT would be funny.
Ha! That would be hilarious. You should do it. It reminds me of that SATC where people keep calling Samantha asking for "Sam Jones" and she goes to the frat party thinking it will be cool. Just don't have sex with a college boy who will later become obsessed with you and I think you'll be okay.

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