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Why my email sometimes get delivered to the wrong person's email address?

  • Author of this Article - Jyoti Raut »
  • Published on September 09, 2010 @ 10:30AM PST |

Conclusion on Delivered to wrong email address - Sometimes when we sent an email to specific email address after that we see that the specific email has been sent to wrong person's email address, how that can be happen? And how i can overcome this problem.

Yesterday i sent an email to someone@email_domain.com and i got one reply which said wrong words to me that never ever send any email to me, i was shocked but when i saw the email address of the sender the email address is different to which i have send email previously. Why this happen i can't understand how i have send an email to wrong person? I have send an email to someone@email_domain.com but why i get an email from someother@email_domain.com?

Delivered to wrong email address

There are various reasons responsible if you are getting some email from another email address on which you didn't send to any email. Here now we will see those reasons which is responsible for the delivering emails to the wrong email address.

  • First and the most common reason to send email to the wrong email address is your recipient email address owner make the changes on the email setting on the email address. At which he or she automatically forward emails to the other email address. And if the email address has not owned by the email recipient then you will get a reply which you don't want to get.
  • Malware and virus is one more reason to send email to the wrong email address, This malware may be in your computer or in the recipient's computer and it send email automatically to the other email address which can be of your address book or recipient's address book or may be something other.
  • Third reason is the auto complete list of address book, What can be happen is this when you try to import email address the auto complete list is open and may be you have select an wrong email address to send an email.

Those are some of the reason which is responsible to send an email to the wrong email address from your email address.

You can take some precautions to oversome this sending emails to wrong email address.

  • Always run anti malware or anti virus and scan your hard drive with those anti virus.
  • Carefully insert or import email address to send an email.
  • Enable the feature of confirmation email while get an successful delivery of email to the recipient's email.

With those precautions you will send email to correct email address and will reduce the possibility to send email to wrong email address.

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