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Receiving an email addressed to someone else's inbox

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jee pee Posted messages 9442 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   -
Hello everyone!
Today I received an email in my inbox that wasn't addressed to me. I'm not talking about a wrong header with a name that's not mine, but rather an email addressed to another mailbox!

For example:
my email address is mariedupont@... and I received an email sent by an unknown person who is gillesdurand@... but this email is addressed to a third person whose email is severinelot@... how is it possible that this email ended up in my inbox knowing that there was only one recipient on the list?

Fortunately, there was nothing serious, but I’m wondering :)
thanks for your answers!

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    Letrollien Posted messages 4274 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   1 751
     
    Hello,

    Intentionally, it is perfectly possible to impersonate anyone in just a few simple clicks. You just need to know the little trick...
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  2. jee pee Posted messages 9442 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   9 981
     
    Hello,

    One possibility is that you are in BCC, meaning blind carbon copy. So you don't appear in the header, but you receive the message.

    Best regards

    --
            a stranger is a friend we haven't met yet.
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    1. beckah
       
      Hello, well no, I checked and that's not the case! Especially since in all the other emails I've received, I am on the recipient list (even when there are several people), but here there is only the address of a stranger...

      It’s probably just a technical glitch and she must have received the email that was meant for me...
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      1. jee pee Posted messages 9442 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   9 981 > beckah
         
        In blind copy, we don't appear anywhere; that's the principle of the function.
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