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Co-incidence or not?

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Elless Sun 05-Sep-21 10:10:34

Jezra put your email address into the website haveibeenpwned.com to see if your address has been compromised.

Jezra Sun 05-Sep-21 09:33:51

Nonogran, I don’t share my passwords with him. In my first post I said that I wondered if our devices were linked in any way because he seemed to know one of my passwords. I don’t write them down anywhere.

Nonogran Sun 05-Sep-21 09:19:29

I’d keep my antennae up & keep changing my password. Don’t discuss yr passwords with husband. If he has his own device why does he need to know yours? I don’t share my passwords with anyone inc my partner.
Mark the emails as “spam” so that future follow ups go into the spam box.
Sounds dodgy to me ….

Jezra Sun 05-Sep-21 09:16:37

I should have said, he has dementia cording to the Dr who has told us to come back in a year. Nothing to be done at the moment. He will soon be 70 and I’m just trying to keep a check on his behaviours before people we know start making judgements. I don’t particularly want them knowing and talking about our business.

Lucca Sun 05-Sep-21 08:10:32

I really do not understand this thing about attractive neighbours ,..is Araminta next door sending you the emails ?

sodapop Sun 05-Sep-21 08:10:30

That rang an alarm bell for me as well MawBe do you have cause for concern over your husband's activities Jezra I never receive any emails like that either.

MawBe Sun 05-Sep-21 07:09:15

I have wondered about the significance of all the attractive neighbours and attractive acquaintances - not something I would be particularly aware of or think worth mentioning. confused

M0nica Sun 05-Sep-21 07:06:41

No porn comes my way and - since DH's emails come up on my pc as well - no porn in his mail either.

The fact that you say it’s nearly always the same name as our attractive neighbour. This used to happen before at our old house, different attractive neighbour or attractive aquaintance and they had pretty uncommon names. would, I am sorry, fire all the alarm bells for me. Someone is feeding those names into the system and it needs to be someone who finds those specific people attractive and if it not you, who?

Allsorts Sun 05-Sep-21 06:23:52

I have no experience of it either and neither do any if me friends, if I was you I would be very concerned.

MawBe Sun 05-Sep-21 06:13:26

I have no experience of what you are talking about.
Do you not have a spam filter? Nothing gets through mine - trivial or disgusting. confused

CafeAuLait Sun 05-Sep-21 05:12:41

Suggestion - switch of auto-loading images in your email settings and you won't see anything you don't want to in messages. I have to click to view images in an email so never see anything I don't choose to.

CafeAuLait Sun 05-Sep-21 05:11:13

The only thing along those lines I get are a particular dating site, but always different names. I believe I get them as my email address must have been stolen in a website hack at some stage. I have never been on dating sites or porn sites, so there's no reason I should get these otherwise. It's only about one or two a day. Always women interested in my profile but I'm not interested in women as dating partners if I was looking. I'm sure it's just a sold list of email addresses and totally random for me.

I think Wifi does link devices. My DH recently started something new and I am getting ads related to that. That's happened before. Do you have a reason to not trust your husband?

nexus63 Sun 05-Sep-21 02:04:33

i have never been on a porn site in my life but i get about 20 emails a day from either julie or asian girl, i have never opened them i just just hit delete but they still arrive the next day. unless you have a trust issue with your husband i would just ignore it.

Jezra Sun 05-Sep-21 00:37:20

I know from talking to friends that most seem to get what they call spam (disgusting) emails from porn sites, dating sites etc. However, I seem to get them and it’s nearly always the same name as our attractive neighbour. This used to happen before at our old house, different attractive neighbour or attractive aquaintance and they had pretty uncommon names.
Am I making a mountain out of a mole hill thinking my DH is up to no good on these sites. Our devices share the same wifi and he kept mentioning one of my passwords in conversation which I have changed as a result. ( Pippin instead of apple for example. Note - not my real one just an example.) This made me wonder if sharing the Wifi links our devices.