I have a fairly basic email address at one of the largest free email providers. I am constantly inundated with email that is meant for someone else but that someone else has entered my email address instead of theirs because either (a) they don't want spam or (b) they are idiots. This has manifested itself in many annoying ways, such ways as random emails to a group of people I've never heard of, to multiple insurance quotes from some comparison website, to subscriptions to e-newsletters.
This latest one took the cake, though: one email received welcoming me to a tax-filing website with "my" username and security question, followed shortly thereafter by a password reminder email with the password right in it. Yep - I was given the login details for someone else's tax return. Naturally, the email came from a no-reply address and had no unsubscribe option. I had to login to this idiot's tax return account (which had financial information already entered in it) and take out my email address from the profile! He's just lucky that I'm not an identity thief. Seriously, how stupid can you be?

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