Have you ever received an email from a company that told you not to reply? Chances are the email address included the domain “donotreply.com”. Many companies use this thinking it’s fake and will cause any replies to bounce back. Still more customers ignore the instructions and reply to it anyway, and their emails don’t bounce back at all. They end up in the inbox of a man named Chet Faliszek, he happens to own the donotreply.com domain.
Along with various customer service inquiries and complaints, and large amounts of spam, he’s gotten emails containing information that might surprise or even shock you. For example, PDFs from a bank detailing every computer they had that wasn’t secure, emails from Capital One customers including various details of their accounts, and even documents from an engineering firm containing details of their business dealings in Iraq. Does Faliszek contact these companies to let them know what’s going on? Only in the most extreme cases, because he says most companies respond with anger rather than gratitude. Instead, he blogs about them. Companies who want their entries removed can do so for a small fee, which he then donates to a local animal shelter.
The moral of the story? Next time you get an email from a company you do business with, read the instructions and double check the address before hitting send!
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