This could mean that the data collected scanning your gmail can be combined with data on which websites you visit or which searches you conducted, all to build a better profile of who you are and what you like. This profile can be used to sell better and more relevant advertisement and/or a social network, Google+, profile for you.

I have a love/hate relationship with Google. I admire the company for their products and the innovation. I’m a little scared with the information Google is collecting and what it will be used for in the future.

[Note from Admin: Comment edited by admin due to keyword spam, next time use your real name instead of lame keywords. I'm sure your real name is not "Email Security Solutions"]

Honestly, I would not feel bad if you assume if this is an user error. I really don’t care if this is going to be solved, as long as this is not happening with my emails.

I have seen the emails that I have received, which were replies to an original email which originated with the person I got the email for. I let this person know, and his response was shocking. He had received all the emails I had in my inbox, so it was clear the emails were being delivered in both inboxes.

I’m not going to paste the header info here, as that will expose email addresses and more.

I will wait patiently for an answer from Google, but I doubt they will ever take on this case with the China nightmare they have on their hands.

My thinking is this. UNIX is 40 years old, and Linux is 15 years or so. And Google has surely delivered many billions of e-mail messages over several years. By now, surely that software has been VERY thoroughly tested.

On the other hand, it is not at all hard to imagine someone typing in smith@google.com instead of smith1234@google.com SOMEWHERE in the process. There are quite a few possibilities for entering a wrong address: the From address, the Reply-to address, forwarding address, or just a random address from an address book–and probably some none of us has thought about. In the absence of headers or ANY solid information other than the fact that you received some mail, I see no reason to assume anything other than human error.

I sent the header information and an explanation to the email address you stated above here on December 22nd.
I heard nothing back, I only got the standard auto response email that they have received my email.

Furthermore, I contacted the guy whose emails I was receiving. He has a new email address set up, and had to change all his auto delivery of emails again.

I looked it up for you. Google’s security page is here: http://www.google.com/corporate/security.html . That page explains what to do. You can send your e-mail to security@google.com . Don’t bother with a screen capture. Just copy and paste the damn headers, OK?

Now, since you already blogged about it without producing the evidence, I’d say you owe everyone a confirmed bug report. We don’t need the whole report. Just the number.

I argue that you should be careful using free email accounts, as your emails could be redirected to somebodies inbox based on eMail address similarities.

Apart from Google scanning your emails to match it with ads, more people might be reading your email. More than you might know!

That’s all I wanted to post here. You can do whatever with this information you like.
If you don’t like the message, I’m sorry, but that’s going to be your problem then.
My problem is that I’m getting more and more emails from this guy in my inbox. It’s cluttering my inbox, as I’m even getting read confirmations from the people he sends emails to.

But thank you for researching the case, and thank you for your comments.