You've got (someone else's) mail

Last updated 14:05 19/03/2010

emailOne of Tiger Woods' mistresses has set up a website and posted a whole heap of text messages allegedly sent to her by old lover boy Tigey-pants. The lady in questions, Joslyn James, is an adult film star and about to get a whole lot more famous...

Before I link to the website, you should know that the homepage has a shot of naked boobies, and there is explicit content in the text messages - so if you're easily offended (or you work in an open-plan office) please consider yourself warned.

For everyone else, you can read the messages Tiger apparently sent to Joslyn James here.

Oh what a dangerous game Tiger was playing, and I'm not talking about golf. Being such a big star, it was only a matter of time before one of his lady friends went to the media, and given the prolific nature of his exploits I'm rather surprised it didn't happen sooner.

If you're the type who likes to get up to no good then I'm sure you've found it's a lot harder to cover your tracks these days than it was, say, 10 or 15 years ago. With text messages and emails leaving a trail of evidence behind you, all it takes is a jilted lover to reveal all or your devoted partner to stumble upon a message not meant for their eyes and BAM, the game's up, buddy!

This happened to a friend of mine. Mr Friend is a bit of a ladies' man and although we never knew for sure that he was seeing other girls while his live-in girlfriend was none the wiser, we sure as heck suspected it. A friend and I confronted him on several occasions but he wouldn't admit to cheating on his girlfriend and did his best to make us feel stink about accusing him of such atrocities. Except we didn't feel stink, because we were sure we had him pegged.

One day, while I was borrowing his computer (with his permission), an email alert popped up containing irrefutable email evidence that he was fooling around. Before I even had a chance to figure out what I was going to do with this information, the girlfriend found some proof of her own in the form of a text message and promptly moved out of the flat they shared.

Personally, the most trouble I've had with text messaging is accidentally sending a text to my ex-boyfriend which was meant for the new boyfriend. That was a bit awkward.

I have been on the receiving end of accidental emails, which is always amusing. Once I was sent an email slagging off something I had pitched to the sender. They had meant to forward the email to a colleague but had instead hit the "reply" button. The worst part was the other party was someone I had worked with for years at my previous job and had always got along well with. I was shocked, and yup, a little hurt too.

More recently, I was accidentally cc'd on an email exchange between two people at a publication I deal with for work. One of the people involved was leaving the publication and explaining to the person taking over his position that when it came to submitting album reviews the easiest thing to do was to copy-paste them from Amazon.

Needless to say, I don't send them albums to review anymore.

This should be a fun Friday discussion, I reckon. Have you ever got into trouble thanks to an email or text message being seen by someone other than the intended recipient? Perhaps you've caught someone else out? Tell me your stories, you know I love them so.

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Emme   #1   02:17 pm Mar 19 2010

A couple of times now I've text something a weeny bit mean about someone else and for some reason i get their name in my head and send it to them instead. I deserve it really - serves me right! On the other hand I once sent a post date text to a girlfriend filling her on the gory details but accidentally sent it to the guy...he thought it was great haha!

Fraser The Amazer   #2   02:24 pm Mar 19 2010

I once got some very odd replies to some lazy text messaging I sent out a text to the boys saying "Come round to my house to watch the semis tonight" however using the old predictive texting and not reviewing what I had sent the actual message sent was a bit different. A big high 5 to anyone who can look at their phone and figure how I ballsed up the word semis...

Amanda   #3   02:27 pm Mar 19 2010

Oh, yes, have I been in trouble! The best one was when the boyfriend (we worked together) did some 'IT systems testing' by screwing with my emails...and a *cough* very inappropriate email ended up in an important CEOs email box (who worked for a well known NZ company). Luckily his PA had a great sense of humour and gave me a call to sort it out. I seriously thought I was going to; be fired; have a heart attack; never work for govt ever again!

Lana   #4   02:28 pm Mar 19 2010

I managed to tell a girl (I didnt know her) that her boyfriend (who was my friend) cheated on her infront of my eyes... with another of my friends (its true he did).... the girl I told was very naive and is still with him...one day she will learn I guess. Although I lost him as a friend I still feel I tried to do the right thing even if I went about it the wrong way maybe I should have mentioned it to him instead.

My bad

Rachael   #5   02:32 pm Mar 19 2010

I dont feel the need to try to hide anything.

if my partner wants to read my email, all he has to do is pick up my phone, or any one of my laptops. same goes for facebook.

the only time you should need to hide something from someone, is when you are doing soemthing dodgy. and i trust him to keep his word that nothing dodgy is ever going to happen.

Sure i get worried when some girl pays him what i define as too much attention, but i know he has no intentions of checking out the other side of the fence.

i got in trouble not long ago, by sending someone a text saying i thought so and so was acting like a douche bag. so and so was this persons best friend, who picke dup the phone and read it. she still isnt talking to me. it was giggle worthy ;)

Leon   #6   02:34 pm Mar 19 2010

I've been sent all sorts of random texts by mistake, but never anything that made me worry! Mistakenly sending emails are far more of a concern though, as I can sometimes get caught out by putting somebodies name in the "to" field when in fact I am talking about them rather than to them. There have been some close run things here at work.

One of the better ones I have seen was from somebody at the very pointy end of the sport I belong to, that was mistakenly sent to somebody appealing to have a rule changed. The email rather disturbingly stated that the committee should do whatever they wanted, and to completely ignore the group making the appeal. The alarming bit is that the particular individual is now ever further up the food chain now than he was then [shudder].

Cilla   #7   02:39 pm Mar 19 2010

Oh my goodness. I once got an email, actually it was a series of emails as one email (a whole dialogue in fact where they had obviously just hit reply to each other's emails) accidentally sent to me from the computer of a very obnoxious and stuck up client. It must have been a virus or something that just sent out this one email containing the dialogue to random people in his address book. It documented the start of his relationship with a librarian, from him asking her if she wanted to go for a walk to a few emails later saying he had wanted to kiss her, to a few emails later spelling it all out as their emails got raunchier and raunchier. It arrived in my inbox one dull Friday avo, just when I had time to read it all too. I never acknowledged that I'd received it next time I saw him as he would only have hit the roof, but my guess is he would have got his IT person in quick smart to fix it and would not have been at all happy about it. Hehe.

Jane Yee   #8   02:39 pm Mar 19 2010

@ Fraser The Amazer #2 PENIS!

AndiNZ   #9   02:40 pm Mar 19 2010

@ Fraser the Amazer: P*nis?

Not the sort of show I'd want my man inviting his mates to watch - though others might? :)

Karlos   #10   02:40 pm Mar 19 2010

Ahhh yes txt messaging is probably responsible for quite a few break ups now days!

I busted an ex through reading a msg she received. I fully trusted her and had never read any of her txt's before that, but one day when I was still in bed and she was in the shower a little voice in the back of my head told me to pick up her phone and go through her inbox. Sure enough there were a few dodgy ones from some guy and when I asked her about them she broke down in tears a confessed everything!

Totally crap time of my life but it taught me to always trust my gut instinct if I'm undecided about something.


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