Why did I receive my friend's Square receipt email instead of her?
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CuriousBee99
I just need some clarification on a weird situation. My friend bought something at a market using a Square payment machine. She confirmed her email for the receipt, but somehow I ended up getting the email receipt instead of her. Our email addresses are totally different, and I didn't make any purchase myself—I was just standing next to her during the transaction. We checked her bank account, and she was charged, but I was not. How could the Square machine have sent the receipt to my email? It's really puzzling!
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This kind of thing can happen! My wife sometimes gets my Square receipts too. We figured out it’s probably because she registered as a seller on Square, which might link our accounts somehow based on our address or another tie-in. It's definitely a quirky feature of the system!
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Square can mess up like that sometimes. If your friend scrolls to the bottom of the receipt email, there’s typically an option to report a wrong email to Square. It might help them fix it for the future!
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It's possible that if your friend ever used her card, it could have saved your email as a backup for receipts. Square lets you not have to enter your info every time—but it's odd since she selected her email right then. Just a thought!
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PonderingPal: That’s so strange! My friend and I don’t live together or share any cards, so I’m really confused about how that works.