August 2007


Put simply, MessageLabs will protect your organization from Internet threats such as viruses, spam, spyware and other inappropriate content, more effectively than any other vendor in the world. MessageLabs can support this claim with a consistent track record of stopping threats long before the competition and through the industry’s strongest Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) that include an unrivaled 100% guarantee against known and unknown email viruses.

Or put less simply, when your clients use message labs and also use donotreply.com as an internal sending domain, I get the emails.

So companies like Pershing, which provides services for financial institutions, send their internal emails to me.

Subject: BREAK RESPONSE FOR CMI CUMMINS ENGINE INC TRD DATE 08/08/2007 MKT-BLT 8-1 TRD TYPE SOLD SHR BRK -300

CORR/NUM: 46E

SETTLE DATE: 08/13/2007
REPORT DATE: 08/10/2007
USER ID: REMOVED
USER PHONE: 212-REMOVED
PLEASE GO OUT ON ACT WITH ECEE

And a company that provides services for the travel industry, sends back their cancelled trips.

Reservation cancelled for : ELDAR REMOVED

Trip Purpose : Business
Estimated trip price : 1053.03 U.S. Dollar
Reservation number : 4AE8AC
Dates : Monday, July 23, 2007 to Thursday, July 26, 2007
City destination : Raleigh Durham
Ticketing/delivery information : As per agreement (Flight)

Vendor : US Airways Reservation number: REMOVED
Vendor : United Airlines Reservation number: REMOVED

Total fare for flight reservations : 519.70 U.S. Dollar (including tax)

[…]

CAR RESERVATION

Estimated price for car rental : 176.33 U.S. Dollar (additional taxes and charges may apply)
Pick-up : Monday, July 23, 2007 1:00 PM, Raleigh Durham, USA
Drop-off : Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:00 PM, Raleigh Durham, USA
Company : Budget
Vehicle type : Intermediate, 2-4 Door, AC, Automatic
Free kilometres : Unlimited
Booked for: : REMOVED
Status : Cancelled
Confirmation code : REMOVED

Lowest rate offered : 176.33 U.S. Dollar

I am sure hiring messagelabs to manage their emails made the executives feel safe. They were leaving it to the pros. Only one problem, even if you use an outside service to manage your emails, your own internal stupidity can still bite you in the ass.

TSYS combines superior data-processing technology with unsurpassed service and experience in electronic payments to provide exceptional value to business portfolios worldwide.

Good thing they only deal with electronic payments, nothing important. The cool thing with TSYS, they just don’t use tsys@ my domain, they also use tsyseurope! Way to spread the stupidity across the Atlantic.

Breaking the law, breaking the law!

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Subject:
Invoice Approval Email Gen Status Report
From:
MPNET13 at donotreply.com
Date:
10 Aug 2007 06:30:22 -0400
To:
ssundararajan@tsys.com, chaycock@tsys.com

Harvesting emails for org 09
Connection established sucessfully to the mainframe
Row count for First Page for org 09 is 6
Added Approver HARDAR1 from 09 to bucket
Added Approver SMIWAY1 from 09 to bucket
Added Approver BARBLA1 from 09 to bucket
Added Approver DIEMEL1 from 09 to bucket
Added Approver HANDEB1 from 09 to bucket
Added Approver BACBRU1 from 09 to bucket
Executing Fwd Command
Added Approver BRICHI1 from 09 to bucket
Page No. 2 The last Seq no. is : 12
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 3 The last Seq no. is : 18
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 4 The last Seq no. is : 24
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 5 The last Seq no. is : 30
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 6 The last Seq no. is : 36
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 7 The last Seq no. is : 42
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 8 The last Seq no. is : 48
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 9 The last Seq no. is : 54
Executing Fwd Command
Added Approver ELLPAT1 from 09 to bucket
Page No. 10 The last Seq no. is : 60
Executing Fwd Command
Added Approver STAPET1 from 09 to bucket
Page No. 11 The last Seq no. is : 66
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 12 The last Seq no. is : 72
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 13 The last Seq no. is : 78
Executing Fwd Command
Added Approver DAVPIN1 from 09 to bucket
Page No. 14 The last Seq no. is : 84
Executing Fwd Command
Added Approver SMIELA1 from 09 to bucket
Page No. 15 The last Seq no. is : 90
Executing Fwd Command
Added Approver WILKAT1 from 09 to bucket
Added Approver LANTRI1 from 09 to bucket
Page No. 16 The last Seq no. is : 96
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 17 The last Seq no. is : 102
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 18 The last Seq no. is : 108
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 19 The last Seq no. is : 114
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 20 The last Seq no. is : 120
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 21 The last Seq no. is : 126
Executing Fwd Command
Added Approver LANTOM1 from 09 to bucket
Page No. 22 The last Seq no. is : 132
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 23 The last Seq no. is : 138
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 24 The last Seq no. is : 144
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 25 The last Seq no. is : 150
Executing Fwd Command
Added Approver WEADOR1 from 09 to bucket
Page No. 26 The last Seq no. is : 156
Executing Fwd Command
Added Approver PIEKEI1 from 09 to bucket
Page No. 27 The last Seq no. is : 162
Executing Fwd Command
Added Approver CAIJOE1 from 09 to bucket
Added Approver HOLVIR1 from 09 to bucket
Page No. 28 The last Seq no. is : 168
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 29 The last Seq no. is : 174
Executing Fwd Command
Added Approver COCALA1 from 09 to bucket
Added Approver SMIDAV1 from 09 to bucket
Page No. 30 The last Seq no. is : 180
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 31 The last Seq no. is : 186
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 32 The last Seq no. is : 192
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 33 The last Seq no. is : 198
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 34 The last Seq no. is : 0
Executing Fwd Command
Page No. 35 The last Seq no. is : 0
The User Id’s for org 09
COCALA1
LANTOM1
BRICHI1
WILKAT1
HOLVIR1
STAPET1
PIEKEI1
ELLPAT1
SMIELA1
LANTRI1
HANDEB1
SMIWAY1
BARBLA1
DAVPIN1
DIEMEL1
WEADOR1
HARDAR1
SMIDAV1
BACBRU1
CAIJOE1
Getting email addresses for ApproverIDs for org 09
Connection established sucessfully to the mainframe
Sending email to ALANCOCHRAN@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to TLANGLEY@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to CBRIGHT@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to KWILLS@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to VHOLMAN@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to PSTARLING@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to KPIERCE@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to PELLIOTT@TSYSTSOL.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to ELSMITH@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to PLAND@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to DHANKS@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to WSMITH@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to BBARKER@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to PDAVIS@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to MDIETRICH@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to DWEAVER@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to DAHARRIS@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to DWSMITH@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to BBACON@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Sending email to JCAIL@TSYS.COM at ORG 09
Exiting application…

Other fun emails include:
Retail Limit Batch Report for Bank 129901
CreditLimit Batch Report for Bank 129901

And guys remember, Jamey Pate will not be returning to the office until 08/13/2007! If you need immediate assistance contact Tanya Deen. And if tsys’s lawyers want to threaten me, please contact me at chet at poe-news.com or just reply to one of your reports…

Since autonation.com is up to sending me an email every 12 seconds and their IT department doesn’t believe me it seems (I have talked with them on the phone). Here is a complete autonation.com email.

--9B095B5ADSN=_01C7D98D0142E1C800002FEAUS1EXBH02.US1.au
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Received: from us1web71.US1.autonation.com ([10.4.10.113]) by US1EXBH02.US1.autonation.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:12:08 -0400
Received: from US1ADMIN03 ([10.10.253.14]) by us1web71.US1.autonation.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:12:07 -0400
Message-ID: <28910606.1186935127783.JavaMail.SYSTEM@US1ADMIN03>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:12:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: <ITAssistant@donotreply.com>
To: ortegav@autonation.com
Subject: us1tcs229.us1.autonation.com - Critical System is down: us1tcs229.us1.autonation.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_Part_0_17900022.1186935127565"
Return-Path: ITAssistant@donotreply.com
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Aug 2007 16:12:07.0931 (UTC) FILETIME=[87F634B0:01C7DCFB]

------=_Part_0_17900022.1186935127565
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

us1tcs229.us1.autonation.com (IP: 10.169.1.109 and Service Tag: JGXWY01 ) has experienced a Critical System is down: us1tcs229.us1.autonation.com on 08/12/07 at 12:12:04:000
------=_Part_0_17900022.1186935127565--

--9B095B5ADSN=_01C7D98D0142E1C800002FEAUS1EXBH02.US1.au--

See the from field AutoNation? Notice something funny about the domain name? Do you own that domain? Do you think I care that you can’t keep your servers functioning?

I can understand not wanting to get all these emails, god knows I don’t want them either. But your brilliant fix to the problem of sending the bounces to me? Not so brilliant. Being so thick in the head that you cannot understand the issue? Really, really not so brilliant.

So what about it autonation? Do you believe me now? Can you figure this out on your own? Can you stop the system from sending me the emails?

I can understand mistakes, I cannot understand this continuation of stupidity.