u/Kardawe12

As we all know, the obvious answer is just completing practice problems, but I don't have the time for that (I acknowledge it is my fault, I procrastinated a lot). My exam date is the 30th of May.

I understand the basic concepts and am able to do a considerable amount of practice problems with little to no problems, but the issue is the exam itself. This'll be the first time I'm taking an official ETS exam as opposed to mock or practice exams. I guess it's the time pressure or fear that I'm going to fail, but every time I start a practice exam, all the information that I learned through Gregmat or Magoosh doesn't just jump out the window it fully somersaults out my dome. Then, when I go back to see the solution I'm like, "I definitely knew that, and I should've gotten it" (although this may just be hindsight bias).

Of course, with the little time I have, I intend to do more and more practice problems, but what else more can I do? To compensate for my lack of retaining information, I'm trying to save some time by skipping through all the more difficult quant questions and going back to them later, but that doesn't really help - it doesn't magically make the information come back. Even with the verbal section; I'm typically pretty swell at vocabulary, and I make flashcards to learn the definitions of words and come up with conversations in my head to reinforce the contextual definitions too, but when it comes to the exams, I suddenly forget the meaning of like 50% of the vocab words.

TLDR; My work email is being used to sign up for fishy shit, I'm getting random texts from "Trump" and conservative groups from different area codes across the country, and now I'm getting sent deliveries to my home address.

I apologize if this isn't appropriate or my point isn't coming across clearly as I don't use Reddit often, so I don't even know if this is the correct subreddit, but this is kind of getting to a point where I need to ask for advice before I call the police or anything.

So, this first started with my work email being used to sign up for 1) A porn website 2) A conservative campaign and they apparently donated $5. Yes, interestingly, the first thing they did was sign up for a porn website. I checked my bank account and all is good there, MY MONEY IS NOT BEING USED. So, I figured I would just ignore it.

Then, I started getting spam messages from said conservative campaigns. Some examples are like, "Thanks for your donation" to "Did you hear about what happened at the Correspondent's Dinner? DISGRACEFUL". Cool, so I of course reported the number to my carrier, and they blocked the number. I don't know how, but these guys apparently found out I blocked them, so now they sent me another message from a different phone number with a different area code (I'm seeing some from Florida, New York, West Virginia, and California).

At this point, I called the IT department at my work and they didn't really tell me much. They just blocked those emails, and they looked up login locations and traced IP addresses and stuff, and he said all was normal. He then asked if anyone I knew would do something like this, and I lowkey have a coworker who doesn't like me that much - they do know my email, phone number, and home address - but I don't want to go pointing fingers unless I know for sure it's them.

Okay, so I figured I would just ignore emails and continue to report the spam messages to my carrier, I don't mind. HOWEVER, during work today, there were two deliveries made to my house. The first delivery was at 3:30 PM, it was prepaid, and it was from a local grocery stores. It was condoms. The second delivery was at 6:00 PM after I got home from work, it was also prepaid, and it was from a DIFFERENT store, and that one was tampons + vaginitis creams - I'm a dude. Here's the thing about those two deliveries, if it was from Doordash, Instacart, or any other delivery system, there should be a name and receipt in the bag should there not? Interestingly enough, both of those deliveries did not. I don't know why or how, if whoever is using my likeness is telling these deliverers to take the receipt out the bag, so I can't find out the name, email, or credit card number on them, but it fucking sucks. Then, an hour later, there was another Doordash for food. It was not prepaid, so the dasher asked for cash when I opened the door. I told them the situation, and they showed me the account and order. It was my name just spelled slightly incorrectly. For example, if my name was John Smith, the name on the account would be like John Kiss. So, this was the confirmation I needed that all this shit that is happening to me, my family, and my home is because of me. There was a phone number on file for that order and lo and behold it was from fucking Nevada. I have never set foot in Nevada and MY area code is one in Ohio. Of course when we called the number, it immediately went to voicemail.

As far as y'all know, would this start because of my work email? How is my address and phone number tied to my email? I lowkey don't use my email for anything, I don't sign up for shit using it, I don't press any emails or links unless I know it's from people in my organization (typically I look at the email address of course, and their portrait is right next to the damn email), and I have literally never sent a message to anyone or anything using that email. The only thing I can think of is I lowkey go on fishy websites to get ROMs for like ps2 games for my emulator, and I go to those free movie websites, but how would those be linked to my work email y'know, and how would they find my address if I didn't make an account?

Any thoughts? Again, IT blocked those emails, but I thought they would've shut it down and made me a new one. I was going to ignore the text messages, but everyone around me has been telling me to get a new phone number, and I guess I might just do that. As for my address and the deliveries, I mean there's not really anything I can do other than either sell the house and move or contact police, but again I don't really want to do that.