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A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal

MrBanana
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And be careful with the email address

That blunder with a single character can lead to many woes. A fellow worker, unsatisfied with his lot, decided to email his CV to a recruitment agency. Rather stupidly he did so from the work email system, something like - To: info@recruitment-agency.co,uk. Note the very subtle transposition of a full stop to comma, so the email bounced. But yes, there was a company wide alias called UK - so that everyone, except the recruitment agency, got a copy.

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