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[personal profile] dewline
This morning, I got a note in my GMail account with the sender flagged as "US Concealed Online".

It is the latest of several instances per day that I have been mistaken for other people sharing my personal name-family combination over the years since getting an e-mail account. There have been e-mails seeking assorted other published authors; some from a Home Depot location in Ohio seeking the renewed custom of a nearby, other Dwight Williams; a few seeking a "private military contractor" also sharing my name.

Plugging my name into say, Google or Duck Duck Go for example, gets me hundreds of other named-alike people. Doctors, actors, end-credits production staffers, writers, athletes, fugitives, convicts, and on the list goes. I'm nowhere near either the best- or least-known of my ilk. There is comfort in this at the moment. Some amusement, some consternation, but also comfort.

Your kilometrage will vary.

Date: 2020-04-19 02:59 pm (UTC)
jhetley: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jhetley
That "US Concealed" thing is broadcast spam, not really anything to do with mistaken identity.

Date: 2020-04-19 08:40 pm (UTC)
mordorbot: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mordorbot
I'm literally the only person in the world with my name, which is good and bad.

Date: 2020-04-19 10:07 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ffutures
I'm lucky, there are only about ten with my name with any sort of online presence - I get email for a couple of them occasionally, but it's been a while so hopefully people have got their acts together. The worst was the film production guy - also living in London, also working in creative areas, etc. etc. - and ex-directory and no obvious email address. I had phone calls, emails and at least one letter for him...

Date: 2020-04-20 09:56 am (UTC)
supergee: (coy3)
From: [personal profile] supergee
I had a prep school classmate named Dwight Williams. Last I heard, he was a doctor.

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