Almost daily, I receive e-mails at work that look like the one below:
To: Everyone
Subject: C***** I***** check
I'm looking for a check from C***** I***** in the amount of $1,681.00. It was mailed to the Support Center last week. Please let me know if you've received it.
Thanks for your help.
L***** *******
In truth, these e-mails really shouldn't bother me as much as they do, but they do. Big checks, small checks, checks from companies, individuals, municipalities, state agencies, vendors, customers. Why must the mismanagement of payment instruments clog everyones' inbox every day?
I do realize that there's a legitimate reason for these annoying e-questions. I am certain that certain doom will occur if we do not properly locate a check for $274.12 from Billy Bob's Fine Dining and Slaughterhouse Emporium, but why should I have to hear about it?
"Filtering should be the answer," I thought. "All I have to do is find e-mails with 'check received' or 'checks' or something like that."
Fat chance.
I was simultaneously bemused and flustered as the e-mail assault continued. How many ways can you misspell or abbreviate the word "check" (or variations thereof)? For that matter, why are you abbreviating a five letter word in an e-mail!??!
Time to implement plan B - if you can't beat 'em, help 'em. I have suggested on numerous occasions to several people both directly in the chain and those outside in the chain who had the ability to intercede that they simply create a distribution list for check senders and receivers. This has fallen on deaf ears.
So, here I sit, and, oh, by the way, if you have received a check from Perry Partners in the amount of $4,249.21 referencing invoice #1755, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF.
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2 comments:
lol... that is funny. I always thought we should build a kind of message board for the checks. Kind of a check lost and found... That way, if you were looking for a check or if you found one or if you just might be interested in all the checks that have come through that day, you would have a central place to go and look for them.
Mine Checker ...oh c'mon it's no more spoofed than Lindows.
There have been several games played by certain unnamed members of the unnamed company you speak of. The goal is to accumulate the most money by a specified date or time period, or to set the goal at a specific dollar amount. All players have to do is be the first to reply all (only to the people playing said game) with the word "Mine" in the response. If you are the lucky winner, you tag your email with a green flag for tracking, and jot down the dollar amount in a spreadsheet adequately named and available on whatever share drive you feel like hosting your game. Each person will have a tally column on the spreadsheet. You get the gist.
So there you have it, how to have fun with Corporate SPAM.
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