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Story: Google denies fault over Mail problems

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Deleted mail accounts aren't the only problem with Gmail. I appear to be 'sharing' my Gmail account with someone else who has the exact same name as me and lives in the USA. I have the Gmail address: firstname.lastname@gmail.com, whereas the other guy has firstnamelastname@gmail.com (minus the dot). The Gmail registration service has assigned the same mailbox to two different people with the same name; one with fistname.lastname@gmail.com and the other with firstnamelastname@gmail.com. I regularly receive emails destined for the other guy in my mailbox and could easily read all of his mail. A serious security breach if ever there was one. I have contacted Google about this but received no reply to my mail. I no longer use that particular Gmail address for fear that the reverse may be happening and my privacy cannot be guaranteed.

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