One can take that risk and do something like that, but I personally dont recommend it at all.
If a department has 7-8 professors with quit similar research interest (70-80 % similarity), it simply means they should work in a larger research group together. If they have different research interests but all cover what I like, it simply mean I dont have any specific research interest, and I am interested in everything!
About talking together about emails that they receive from students, the answer is "for 99.9% of emails that they receive NO, they wont talk to other professors" , but when they want to make a serious decision about a student like admit him/her for graduate program, they usually talk about their prospect applicants with each other and for case with several professors in a large research group, for sure they will do that and discuss the quality of different students that they were keep in touch with.
So, consider a case in which two professors talk about a person and of course those two professors dont plan to work on exactly the same topic! be sure that that person wont have any chance for getting admission if something like this happen.
You may say something like this has a probability like 0.00001 to happen, it is fine, up to you to take this risk or not.
But by re-writing our research interests in more details and ranking professors again based on detailed interests and some patients, we can decrease this risk to zero.
Good Luck
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