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I've had similar conversations, but they are eclipsed by those revolving around people asking me if I work for the company in question. (I once said yes, to see what would happen, and understood how easy it would be to swindle people who don't understand email.)

I also spent 10 minutes trying to convince a car hire company that the email was mine and didn't belong to a third party car hire intermediary.

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Haha yeah I do expect I’ll eventually run into confusion. For the most part I’m rarely giving anyone an email address in person or over the phone anyway.

I live on a street with a long, somewhat weird name that sounds like one word if you say it too fast but is actually three words. It’s much more of annoyance than my email addresses hah.

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