Quote Originally Posted by MomOnBike
It happened again today. I got junk mail for MY business that was addressed to DH.

HE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MY BUSINESS!!! except get out of the way when things aren't going well.
I was going to reply that I got e-mail spam addressed to my husband at my domain when he went to a web site that lets you apply to multiple mortgage companies with just one form submission. I could have killed him. The address on the DNS record was the address of the property being remortgaged.

BUT.

Today we got snail spam from the cable company addressed to G---- B------, OWNER, SUSIEJ, INC. which isn't even a real company! My webhost used SusieJ Inc for the business name when I first registered the domain, but I had it changed years ago because there is no business of that name. (Friends did the registration -- who knows why they added a company name.) So, the freaking cable company is trolling years-old DNS registration records for .coms and matching addresses to their customer database.

The lengths marketers go to find someone dumb enough to respond to their direct marketing efforts -- matching by addresses, phone numbers, last names -- if they can shuffle the pieces together to get a new combination that might be an "individual" who can/will respond ... I also get mail for my mother, nearly 20 years after she re-married.