Getting emails (gmail) addressed to me, but not intended for me.

Hello reddit. I've noticed over the past 18 months or so, I'm getting emails to my gmail inbox (an email account I've had for over 10 years) that are addressed to [email protected], whereas my actual email address is [email protected].

I know Gmail ignores the periods in the email name, but here's where it starts to get interesting. About 18 months ago, I got a mail Thanking me for signing up for a Hilton Honors account. Knowing I didn't sign up, I took a look at the account, saw it was sent to [email protected].

After a few days, I went to the Hilton Honors website, tried logging in, but put that I forgot my password. I entered my email, and my "account number" that I received on the initial sign-up email. This sent me a temporary reset password link. Now, this means, that this Hilton Honors account was indeed setup with the email [email protected] I received that password reset, was able to change the password and login.

Once I logged in, I checked out the profile page. The account was indeed someone that shares my same name. So far, nothing out of the ordinary. However, the address is listed, and the phone number. Of someone in the UK. I'm in Phoenix AZ (USA).

Over time, I have received a few other emails, not just from Hilton Honors, but, I've received Airline Boarding passes (for a flight from the UK to Shanghai), and various password reset requests for adult dating sites.

This morning it culminated in receiving an email from apple, about setting up my appleid. See, I have an AppleID - it matches my [email protected] account. Yet, someone, (seemingly the same someone); is attempting to setup a new AppleID for [email protected], but the email is coming to me for verification.

So, is there anything I can do? Contacting Gmail seems like an enormous undertaking, so I thought I might seek out the communities help here.

I'm not concerned about anything being a Phishing deal, cause I've gone to these sites directly and able to login using the email without the period, and there's a phone number and address.

Has anyone else experienced this type of issue?

Thanks in advance.