Have you ever sent an email to the wrong person?
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
United States
September 9, 2007 3:40am CST
Have you ever accidentally sent an unflattering email to one friend that was meant for another, and the friend heard you say some things about them that were not nice? Have you ever tried to send yourself an email and accidentally emailed it to a friend instead? That happened to me.
Awhile back, I was surfing around trying to find a cool web template for one of my websites. that And when I located one that I liked, I hit the "send email to friend" link on my toolbar and accidentally typed in a friends email address, instead of my own. I didn't notice it at the time and hit the "send" key.
About ten minutes later she emailed back and told me it was a beautiful template and planned to use it on her own site. She had just assumed that I was sending her a gift by email. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I had intended to send the email to myself and only sent it to her by mistake. I felt so bad, as if I'd done a real injustice to myself. But, what could I do? Has that ever happened to you?
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@smileonstar (4007)
• United States
9 Sep 07
you know what I never send text message to the wrong person but one day, someone else got my text msg and said I told her to shut up!!! I was like "What?" did i mention that I dont use text message for 2 years now and I never do one until now either. I rather call. but this lady called me and said I text msg her and told her to Shut Up, hahhahah.... and she asked me what was my problem? i was like, excuse me I dont even know you and why would I text msg you? she said, it is from your number that's why I call you to ask. I said, oh well if you got it then I am sorry but I just want to let you know that I never text msg anyone at all. She was so mad at me. I called to my phone company to check if someone use my phone to text and they said no record show that I send out a text msg... hahhahaha.... any way, i just want to share some stupid and funny story with you.
@Michele21 (3093)
• United States
9 Sep 07
That is so funny!! I have sent an e-mail to the wrong person before, but it was worse than yours =) I worked with this girl and her boyfriend was always treating her really bad, but all he had to do was say he was sorry or send her flowers and she would forgive him. So one day she comes into work all upset because he had done something again (I don't remember what) and she had been crying all day about it so me and another girl were e-mailing back and forth about it, and the girl with the jerk for a boyfriend was e-mailing me as well. So the guy ended up sending her flowers and she called ihm and they made up. So I me and the other girl were e-mailing about how stupid she was to just take im back after being so aweful to her! And in between both e-mail I got mixed up and send the mean e-mail about how stupid she was being to her instead of the other friend =) I felt so bad but somehow I went over and explained it to her that I just felt really bad for her because he was always hurting her and she would just forgive him without him having to actually change. And that I still thought her was a jerk =) It was soo embarassing!!
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@KrisNY (7590)
• United States
13 Sep 07
Yes- I have sent an e-mail to someone when it was meant for someone else- I did this at work once. I thought it was going to someone here- and it went to a person outside the company- thankfully I didn’t put what I wanted- Lousy people—It was a nice e-mail and I apologized after the fact-
I have never sent an e-mail to the wrong friend- thankfully- I usually always look up to be sure prior to hitting send.
@vashstampede992000 (2560)
• Philippines
15 Sep 07
Hi there, well it never happened to me that i mis send an email to a wrong person as i always check it.
However, it can really happen if we are forwarding an email to multiple receivers and we include other people that not supposed to receive that email as well.
Have a nice day ahead from Kiko, and happy posting and earning here in Mylot and Godspeed.
@sephrenia (567)
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10 Sep 07
I've never sent an unflattering email about a collegue or friend before lol, If i had something to say, good or bad I would say it to their face whether they wished to hear it or not.
However, I have been on the receiving end of an email that said some very unflattering things about me that was intended for another person I worked with at the time. Rather than cause a massive stink about it, I went and got each receipient and had a word with them and told them that although I thought they were a little less intelligent than a Goldfish on an acid trip, in future they should be considerate enough to come and tell me to my face rather than my back.
Other than that ive not had a problem with emails :)
@sylvia13 (1850)
• Nelson Bay, Australia
9 Sep 07
I havent sent anybody an unflattering email on purpose, but a couple of times I have found myself forwarding something without noticing that the person will get the whole conversation. When I notice it is too late, as the email has already gone!
@carlaabt (3504)
• United States
9 Sep 07
I have two Misty's in my address book. One is my best friend from way back in kindergarten (we stayed friends all the way through school, she's one of the few people I stay in contact with). The other one is a girl that is engaged to one of my best friends. She and I aren't close at all. She's emailed me a few times, asking for help with a birthday surprise for him, etc. But it's been a long time since I talked to her.
Anyway, just the other day, I was sending out the pics of Elliott that we got taken last month. I accidentally sent them to Bry's fiance instead of my friend. She emailed me and back "Yeah, your kid is cute and all, but I can't help wondering why you sent me this stuff? Do you want me to show Bryan or something??"
I felt like such an idiot. I emailed her back and explained what had happened. And then emailed my friend Misty the pics and the update. I double checked to make sure that I had the right email address that time. :)
@exclusively_rinku (891)
• India
9 Sep 07
yeah i had this situation sometime back.i had to send a mail to my bf but instead it went to one my net friend with i love you written in it.i had not realized what i have done until one day i was looking at the sent items and there i saw this mail.i was like where will i go now?what will i tell him?and what he must be thinking of me?
but he hadnot replied me after receiving this mail.then immediately i wrote a mail apologising for what i had done.and thank god he replied back saying everything is ok and it happens at times.he was really very understanding and anyhow i escaped the situation.
@wonderful1 (2075)
• China
9 Sep 07
no, i had never sent an email to the wrong person.but i sent a message to the wrong person by mobile.
one day, i was senting message to my boyfriend, then i didn't know why i sent it to my friend, you know i must say some immitate words in it. then my friends sent the message to all of our friends, hahaha, you know how funny it is. the next day, i invited them to dinner in a big and expensive restaurant.
@kevsgirlalways (5883)
• Malaysia
10 Sep 07
I've experienced this a few times. There were times when I wrote an email and it was meant for a particular person, I accidentally sent to someone else. If the email content doesn't contain anything important or if it's not something embarrassing then I'll just write to that person again to apologize for sending the wrong email and asking him/her to just ignore it.
@smileonstar (4007)
• United States
9 Sep 07
Hello, dont feel bad... it should be funny one when she emailed you back with all the nice words, you know what i mean right? I never send the wrong email to any friend but I got some other emails send to me by the stranger and we make friend through that email. When I first know how to use an email, I always send email to my uncle and my family. so, one day I got an email from my uncle but it turned out to be someone else email address. I looked over and over again to make sure that it was my uncle but I still replied any way. Then I got the replied back by saying that I email to the wrong email address... :) I was like what? then I go back to the old message and it was my uncle message but different email :(... but nothing bad tho, I make friend with him until now :).
@sid556 (30953)
• United States
10 Sep 07
I have never sent anything unflattering to another by accident but I do have a friend who has almost the same last name as one of my girl's teachers. I have more than once thought i was writing to my friend only to discover too late that I sent the e-mail to the teacher. Luckily I have a quiet nothing to hide type of life and the teacher just assumes i'm ditzy....i am.
@eprado (1466)
• Philippines
9 Sep 07
Hello beautyqueen26, I think I did sent an email to a wrong person at work before. I recall It was a progress report I was supposed to my counterpart customer representative but was sent to another one, good thing for me when I check my email the next day my counterpart said it was forwarded to her. :-)
Sometimes it just happened when we got a lot of thing in our mind, its an honest mistake I think and we're only human. :-)













