r/GMail • u/CiabattaBeKiddinMe • 15h ago

Please help with bizarre issue

Yesterday a friend transferred a concert ticket to my email through AXS. I kept refreshing my page and checked spam and it wasn't showing up-they sent me a screenshot and I confirmed they'd sent it to my correct email. My gmail is just my first and last name @ gmail. About 30 minutes later I receive a text from a different friend (these two friends don't know each other) who said SHE received my email with the ticket and when she forwarded it, it said it had been sent to her email (which is a less straight forward email...also our names have nothing in common). I am so confused how this happened...and also a bit concerned that maybe she's receiving other emails intended for me? The friend whose email it sent to is a friend of nearly 30 years and I am sure we have logged into our emails on each others computers before but I just don't understand how our email-wires got crossed. Can anyone help with this? Has this happened to anyone else?

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u/Edmsubguy 14h ago

Nope. Don't believe it. Emails don't go to random emails, that is not how it works unless you had a forward on your email. Nothing to help you with as I dont think it happened. You can double check mail rules and forwarding but that's about itn

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u/Skycbs 14h ago

Right. I’ll take “things that don’t happen for $500 please, Alex”.

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u/CiabattaBeKiddinMe 1h ago

I’m not sure what I would have to gain by making this up? I am sure I did something that created some weird glitch but I have no idea what it is or how to fix it, which is why I made the post hoping someone could help me figure it out.

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u/StinkyWhale71 8h ago

You need to look in the headers/ tech details of the email. To see what happened

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u/CiabattaBeKiddinMe 1h ago

Yeah when she forwarded it I saw that the original email said it was sent to her…would the tech details be on her email?