Someone has the same email address as me!

Is this still happening to you? I'm having the exact same issue. I've had my mac address since 2002, but a few years ago when mac opened up the icloud addresses I've started receiving sporadic emails to (myemailaddress)@icloud.com. They're not spammy either - it's a paypal receipt, spa inquiries, etc. No fraud on my accounts whatsoever. I also receive emails to a secondary email also on this person's icloud account. An email for a legit business, but one that I definitely don't have access to and never set up. Weirdly though, if I send an email to that account (person's business)@icloud.com those emails are delivered to my inbox!

I understand the issue of miskeying an email address, and I understand that this *can't* happen, but it's totally happening and it's not miskeys or a hack!!

OP did you ever resolve it?

It shouldn't be possible for two people to be assigned the same email address. And from what you've said, there is no proof that the other person was assigned the email address. All you know for sure is that they have used the address online, which doesn't prove that it's theirs. They also said they didn't receive your emails, which would be true if they didn't really have access to the account but were just using it to sign up for things online.

Contact the Apple account security team for your country to have them confirm that it isn't assigned to anyone else. Then have them change the password for you without sending authentication email to the address in case the other person somehow as access to it (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699). Once the password is changed, they would no longer have access to the account, if in fact they ever did.

kimallen40 wrote:

The websites that she has signed up to I have logged in and there is no message asking for email verification which suggests she is receiving emails.

If they could sign in using an email address that isn't verified then all the website owner has is her word that she is receiving their emails. Besides, if there had been a verification email for these sites, you would have seen it too; which suggests that there wasn't.

Once you get the password changed they will not be able to receive any email from the account, even if they do now. That may not be the end of the problem, however, as there would still be nothing to prevent them from continuing to use the address to sign up on websites that don't verify the address. If it persists, you may have to either create a new iCloud account in order to get a new email address, or create an alias address to use within the existing iCloud account and stop using your main address for email. Then you can set up an email rule on icloud.com that sends email from the main addres to the trash where it is deleted 30 days later. This explains how to create an alias address: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mm6b1a490a. This explains how to set up an email rule: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mm6b1a3f8a. Good luck.

Understand that she was typing in the wrong email, but how does it explain that she was receiving the emails from the online store etc as they said? Weird. I am also receiving emails on one of my aliases on iCloud of somebody that is obviously typing my same name@icloud.com as I have on this email that I never really use, and I am getting his registration to eBay etc. Thinking that it might be fraud I went in and changed the password on that account and then tried to cancel that eBay account, but found that a few hours after whoever it was had the account reactivated somehow, even if I changed the password. This is extremely weird as it seems somebody is using the same alias I have registered many years ago and somehow is also receiving the emails (and I am also) that they send to that account. I am perplexed by this.