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They may be blowing smoke about a lot of that but the bottom line is that nothing prevents a lawsuit from being delivered to your door. And once that happens you get to pay an attorney a barrel full of money to properly defend you.

I suggest you profusely apologize to these people and remove the email account. If they then want to continue doing business with you, you can create an email with your business name followed by a numerical code to identify the customer.

I'm surprised that you've done hundreds of these without getting smacked yet.

In the future get written consent before you create the email address or use the numerical coding that I suggested.
With all due respect that's BS. The OP is reacting exactly like they want him to react. Mission accomplished for them.

There is no law forbidding the use of a company name in private domain email setup. For example, if you set up an email that had mcdonalds at hotmail ,or costco at hotmail , or paypal at hotmail, or whatever... it's not against the law.

It's only illegal if you or anyone uses that email/domain to conduct illegal activity.

Apologize to the company? You must be joking!!!


Many of these companies have full time counsel on their payroll. They have nothing better to do than harass innocent consumers. That letter is what we call a scare tactic.

An attorney is not the police. Unless there is a court order saying you are forbidden from doing "XYZ."

Anyone can accuse a person of whatever. Nobody is going to trample over your 1st Amendment rights.

They would have to provide evidence and prove damages. None exist!

"In the future get written consent before you create the email address." - HaHaHa - that is funny!!