Stephanie McLaughlan, 22, of Aberdeen, certainly has. She had simply asked her bank to send her a copy of her statement.
She was then understandably rather astonished, and alarmed, when Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) sent her the private banking details of some 75,000 other customers.
The details - customer names, sort codes, account numbers - were in five large packages which were "just dumped on my doorstep one day", she told the Daily Mirror.
The bank, which has launched an investigation and apologised, clearly did not have a clue that they had sent her the information by mistake, she said.
David Wulff, writing on a forum on the Code Project website, wonders how nobody at the bank thought it was a "little odd that they would be sending out several large packages of statements to a residential address in Scotland?"
He goes on: "If you don't think this incident is that serious, consider that she could use any ... [and] every one of those statements to obtain all sorts of credit and open additional bank accounts to launder crime money."
Guardian Unlimited's Sarah Phillips tells News blog of a similar story when a friend was somehow confused with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe ...
Phillips writes:
"When we were at university, a group of my friends shared a house in Chalk Farm in north London. Shortly after moving in, they began to notice that rather a lot of letters were arriving for a Mr D Radcliffe. They didn't twig as to who the post was for, and came up with a theory that they were love letters from a girl whose heart had been broken by evil Mr Radcliffe - at least four letters a week in candy coloured envelopes covered in slightly psychotic handwriting gave it away. So after a few months of it, they decided to open a letter and write her a comforting reply, hoping to end the mail bombing.
It turned out someone in Turkey had published their address as a contact for the Harry Potter star, and the post was in fact rather disturbing fanmail from an obsessed army of teenage girls. They received photographs, quite often of the sender in a swimsuit, small gifts (including a chain with a 'D' for Daniel), lots of cuttings of the actor in Turkish magazines, and from the more forward of the fans, invites of a place to stay when he was next in town."
