Posted on 05/25/2021 1:16:43 PM PDT by dynachrome
Walmart Inc said on Monday it had blocked emails containing a racial slur from being sent from its domain, following backlash on social media.
Several Twitter users posted screenshots of emails, from the company's official 'help@walmart.com' address, that contained a slur instead of their names.
Walmart said a "bad actor" had created fake Walmart accounts using people's real email addresses and altered first names to fool its automated reply system.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
(Sign up for their website using the famous n-word as the first name)
So ... the lyrics to Elvis Costello’s “Oliver’s Army” is forbidden? I imagine they wouldn’t care for Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothin’”, either.
Several years ago the Word spell checker tried to change “black Mustang” to “African-American Mustang.”
A collogue was annoyed by our boss who over used such words as “utilized” so she went in and created an auto-replacement that changed it to “used.” It was hilarious watching him retype it over and over. He wasn’t techy enough to figure it out. After a while he didn’t notice. With that and other changes, she made him into a pretty good writer.
So their email system blocks any message containing the word “cracker”?
So where did these people get copies of the emails sent to the racist-named accounts? from the person who created the racist-named accounts.
In other words this is a HOAX not a prank.
The racist term was “wookie”.
Oh wait I read it wrong. The people received the emails at their real email addresses.
Apparently, they’re also blocking phone calls. No matter which dept. number we’ve called today, they haven’t answered.
“ Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)”
Really?!
Walmart said a “bad actor” had created fake Walmart accounts using people’s real email addresses and altered first names to fool its automated reply system.
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Most good websites don’t let you activate an account until you respond to an email sent to the address you setup in the account. This is confirmation you have access to that email account.
Nor John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band’s “Woman is the N-word of the World”.
“ Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)”
Really?!
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Fitting, as a vast majority of Walmart’s IT and software engineering workforce are Indian H1B scumbags.
Guess so is Yahoo’s reporting staff
LOL
Contra the headline, it looks more like Walmart failed to block the emails.
“I imagine they wouldn’t care for Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothin’”, either.”
Lots of classic rock stations play an altered version that has the offending words washed out.
That’s how the emails would get sent:
“Hi, Worthless Scumbag, thanks for signing up for a Walmart account. Click here to confirm your registration.”
That strange noise you hear is Sam rolling in his grave.
Indians worried about “Racism” in the US.
Most Indians in the US are upper caste Brahmans who not only see race but also see caste... they just keep it to themselves outside of India.
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