Suspicious balance due invoice in email

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I just received an email in the form of an invoice saying that I bought a $2200 earring from an online jewler in Canada. This is a balance due invoice. First of all, I never bought this or agreed to be billed. What's strange about this email is that the email address is not exactly mine. Let me illustrate:

My email is (I replaced the name with a generic one): johndoe@gmail.com. The email I received is addressed to John.Doe@gmail.com.

As you can see, they are similar, but not identical. But for some reason Gmail sent it to me.

The other suspicious thing about the invoice is that it only lists the name like "John Doe" (I fictionalized the name for privacy reasons). Whenever I buy something online, I never use "John"; I always use my legal name which is completely different. Also, this invoice has no address under "Billed to" or "Ship to".

I checked my FICO reports and I didn't see anything suspicious. What do you all think?

[haulingthescoreup]

Someone's going phishing.

[Anonymous]

It does look like phishing. Thanks for the reply!

[Anonymous]

With Gmail periods are ignored. That email could be sent to an address like j.o.h.n.d.o.e@gmail.com and it will still arrive in your inbox. Just like j.o.hndo.e@gmail.com would do the same.

[haulingthescoreup]

gmail is flat bizarre. I continually find emails in my spam box from senders which have been happily accepted for years.

[chasmith]

I assume any email like this is a fraud.  Never respond to an email from an unknown party.

[JonStur]

Yea most emails like these should be ignored...either that or every month I'm missing out on my $20 mil that some Sudanese banker has waiting for me in a
Foreign acct..all he needs me to do is wire him $10 grand to process and release it...oh the temptation...