[Hidden-tech] gmail "quirks"

[Edbride-PR]

If gmail doesn't recognize dots in usernames, do they nonetheless allow 
people to signup for an address with a dot in it? And, if they don't, then 
are you saying that they have registered two people with identical 
usernames?

Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gyepi SAM" <gyepi-hidden-tec at praxis-sw.com>
>
> Gmail does not recognize dots within usernames, so emails to 
> 'tom.adams at gmail.com'
> will go to the account 'tomadams at gmail.com', which explains why you're 
> getting
> his emails.
> See this page for details: 
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10313
>
> I would guess that his real address is not 'tom.adams at gmail.com' but
> something quite similar and easy to mistype.
>
> As others have mentioned, the email from desk at gmail.com is phishing spam.
> Aside from the fact that no real admin would ever ask you for
> that information and that you can see the true source of the message
> in the email headers, you can also look at the link they want you to click
> and see that it doesn't go anywhere near the site they want you to think
> it's going to. Really good phishers go to some trouble to camouflage the
> domain, but you can still tell. BTW, some email readers make this easier 
> than others.
>
>
> -Gyepi
>
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