Check that address before sending an email

Everyone has sent off an email to the wrong person. After all, we're all human and make mistakes. But it's time to rethink how quickly you may shoot off an email, IM or tweet because if it's sent to the wrong person, you cannot get it back.

We've all sent emails to the wrong address before, but hopefully the message didn't include confidential information about 1,300 customers.

That happened recently to a bank employee in Wyoming who sent an email with an attachment that contained information about more than 1,300 individuals. What a headache! The employee sent the information to the wrong Gmail account and didn't realize it until after he hit the send button.

The bank emailed the recipient, asking that the message be deleted without reading it, but there was no response. The bank then asked Google about the Gmail account but Google refused to provide any information because of privacy.

Then it went to court but lost out when it tried to get the judge to order the information kept secret. The bank lost. That is why there is plenty of information out on the Internet that had been sent to the wrong address and could be used against any one of the 1,300 people.

For more on mis-sent emails:
- see this Docucrunch.com article

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