Probably the guy thought he had the gmail address and filled it in forms when actually he didn't.
If one of these emails has his phone number, call him. If not, contact e.g. a bank that sends email to him, tell them "you've got the email wrong. Please notify your client because I have no way of reaching him, and you probably do". The fraud department of the bank will be able to take care of that quickly - you can start with "either this is a fraud, or a mistake, but here's the story ..." when you talk to them.
It might be helpful to tell them (and hopefully relay to him) that this is YOUR email address, you've had it for a while.
Expect the guy to ask you to sign over your email address to him, because his name is "Joe None" and your violating his property, or something crazy like that. Don't get angry, and definitely don't do anything stupid like impersonating him, logging in to his bank account or anything like that.
This is not legal advice, and I hope you won't need any after you do the right thing and try to resolve this....
Thank you for the advice. I have not logged into any of his accounts, but definitely have to reply to some of the "marriage proposals" he received, from another account saying that is not the right address.I'm in the US and I'm very sure he is in India. (All the banks, job sites, mortgage quotes, ecards, marriage proposals, friends sending stupid jokes are all from India.)
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Probably the guy thought he had the gmail address and filled it in forms when actually he didn't.
If one of these emails has his phone number, call him. If not, contact e.g. a bank that sends email to him, tell them "you've got the email wrong. Please notify your client because I have no way of reaching him, and you probably do". The fraud department of the bank will be able to take care of that quickly - you can start with "either this is a fraud, or a mistake, but here's the story ..." when you talk to them.
It might be helpful to tell them (and hopefully relay to him) that this is YOUR email address, you've had it for a while.
Expect the guy to ask you to sign over your email address to him, because his name is "Joe None" and your violating his property, or something crazy like that. Don't get angry, and definitely don't do anything stupid like impersonating him, logging in to his bank account or anything like that.
This is not legal advice, and I hope you won't need any after you do the right thing and try to resolve this....
Thank you for the advice. I have not logged into any of his accounts, but definitely have to reply to some of the "marriage proposals" he received, from another account saying that is not the right address.I'm in the US and I'm very sure he is in India. (All the banks, job sites, mortgage quotes, ecards, marriage proposals, friends sending stupid jokes are all from India.)