I’ve been approached by members of the Shuck family, twice now, believing that i’m a relative of theirs named Lauren (fair mix, i say).

First, jjjshuck wants me to join their family Yahoo! group. I send jjjshuck a letter where i explain why i kindly have to decline the invitation and introduce myself for the person i am. Inadvertedly, i manage to accept the invitation nonetheless. The result: i am kicked out of the Shuck family without a word. Fair enough, i say, but a little thankyou would have been appropriate, for the fact that they now are not having an eavesdropper in their group.

A week ago, i’m again approached by a Shuck, this time a Jack Shuck. This Jack seems the uncle of Lauren and the mail comes in form of an iTunes music store gift certificate. Since i am not the Lauren he is looking for, i intend to mail him back, and when i finally do, i get an SMTP 550: Mailbox unavailable.

I’ve mailed the original jjjshuck (just an hour or two ago), which currently is my last lead. I wonder what happens next, and how hard it can be to do the right thing.

Now i’m not the one who’d want to steal somebody else’s gift cert, but it’s getting damn near impossible to Do The Right Thing. If anybodoy out there knows Jack Shuck or Lauren — who may or not be Lauren Shuck (one works at the Early Social Development Lab at the University of Pittsburgh) but there’s no mail address and first.last at pitt.edu yielded another 550 — please gimme a holler.