Managing personal Outlook.com account settings, security, and privacy
I had received e-mail form businesses in the area of California that this person lives in the last few months ... Please explain how this can happen.
Many people are careless when entering information into forms at websites. They intend to type their own email address but type yours instead, and don't notice that they've done so. Mistakes are also often made at one end or the other when giving email addresses over the telephone.
I just blocked them and thought no more about it until today.
That's a pretty brutal way of dealing with it. It would perhaps be more good-neighbourly to inform the sender that his message was sent to the wrong address.
Please read my earlier post about this phenomenon.