Oh, I met someone once who did that (not so quite egregiously). Must have been 15 years ago, or nearly so.
It was really weird, because my only previous encounter with him was selling him something on eBay (and meeting him in person because he was local). And then half a year later I got this email saying that he'd died, apparently emailed to everyone he'd ever had email contact with. And a few days later a reply-to-all alleging that actually he hadn't and was faking it. I never did get any more of the story, and it was a bit odd being on the periphery of it.
(Edit to add: I just looked and found I still had the emails. They're incredibly sketchy. Let me know if you'd like a copy!)
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Date: 2012-10-18 08:00 am (UTC)It was really weird, because my only previous encounter with him was selling him something on eBay (and meeting him in person because he was local). And then half a year later I got this email saying that he'd died, apparently emailed to everyone he'd ever had email contact with. And a few days later a reply-to-all alleging that actually he hadn't and was faking it. I never did get any more of the story, and it was a bit odd being on the periphery of it.
(Edit to add: I just looked and found I still had the emails. They're incredibly sketchy. Let me know if you'd like a copy!)