Not all dots are created equal... especially in your Gmail address

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:26:01 -0500

Here’s a quick heads-up that might save you some serious headaches.

Gmail doesn’t treat dots in email addresses as unique. Whether your address is john.smith@gmail.com or jo.hn.smith@gmail.com, if it has a dot a copy of ALL your email gets sent to johnsmith@gmail.com too.

A very close family member learned this the hard way when their identity was stolen. Someone registered a non-dotted version of their email, and it went unnoticed for a while. The result? Credit card fraud…

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Not all dots are created equal... especially in your Gmail address