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.

So it's an odd one, and I don't know what to make of it.

Sylvia.

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. :)

-jw-
--
And now for something completely different...

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.

Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> writes:

> 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. :)

Amazing stories. :) Some years ago I would every now and then get family
members sending me pictures and saying how nice the party was or
whatever. I'd reply to all of them saying that they had reached the
wrong person. Same family name. Most likely first name with the same
initial. The interesting thing is that I think nobody ever replied to
even say thanks. (Or maybe once I got a reply.)

I used to work at a place and my desk phone number would end with 7000.
There was a period that about twice a month or maybe once a week, the
same guy would call and ask me the banana price. Lol. Surely he was
dialing the wrong number, but very often. Weird.

with <875xus314s.fsf@yaxenu.org> Julieta Shem wrote:
> Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> writes:
>> Sylvia Else wrote:

>>>I received an email, apparently genuine, from Pizza Hut confirming my
>>>order of a pizza.
*SKIP* [ 7 lines 3 levels deep]
>> 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
*SKIP* [ 22 lines 2 levels deep]
> I used to work at a place and my desk phone number would end with
> 7000. There was a period that about twice a month or maybe once a
> week, the same guy would call and ask me the banana price. Lol.
> Surely he was dialing the wrong number, but very often. Weird.

For about a decade, about once per 18..24 month, I was getting
misterious phone calls -- always different very, very, very friendly
people (young female voice: "Hello, Dude", me: "something went wrong",
YFV: "This isn't Dude", me: "No, I'm not"). Then weirdest shit had
happened.

My phone account gets updated for laughable amount (equivalent to 4..5
rides on public transport). In 2h I've got a phone call from exactly my
number except it was different operator (locally, operators get pools of
numbers in blocks of 10mil numbers). Mature male voice: "There was a
mistake; Nephew of mine tried to update my account and entered wrong
number, yours; I need my monies back", me: "I cannot neither confirm
nor deny" (I really speak like this), MMV: "How so?", me: "I don't check
my account all the time, I update it monthly, and that's it", MMV: "But
monies!", me: "What you want from me? I have to get into my profile,
check balance, figure out how much I have to move. Is it really worth
trouble?", MMV: "Whatever". And, misteriously, this accident has
lifted curse -- no more misterious calls.

--
Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination
Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom

On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 19:30:45 +0100, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

> 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.

I still see, on some of the mailing lists I’m on, employees of clueless
corporates who have crap force-appended to every message they send out,
saying “this email is confidential” etc.

I thought the lawyers (the ones responsible for this nonsense) had figured
out how pointless it was 20 years ago. But no. And on public mailing
lists, even.

On 02-June-24 12:01 am, 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.
>
> So it's an odd one, and I don't know what to make of it.
>
> Sylvia.
>

My email address is not one someone would arrive at by simple typo,
since it's for a domain name I control, and only three other people have
addresses on it.

I suppose someone I've communicated with, and who has it in their
address book, might have used an auto-complete without even glancing at
the result.

Sylvia.