{"id":259282,"date":"2021-05-25T19:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/walmart-blames-fraudster-for-racist-emails-sent-to-customers\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T19:37:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:37:31","slug":"walmart-blames-fraudster-for-racist-emails-sent-to-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/walmart-blames-fraudster-for-racist-emails-sent-to-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Walmart blames fraudster for racist emails sent to customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Walmart blames fraudster for racist emails sent to customers<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A fraudster created false Walmart accounts to send emails with a racist slur to customers, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrator found other people\u2019s email addresses and signed them up for a Walmart account. The company sent an auto-generated \u201cWelcome to Walmart\u201d email, but the email replaced the person\u2019s actual name with the slur.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"759\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"A woman was emailed from a Walmart account calling her the N-word.\" class=\"wp-image-18336694 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/walmart-racist-emails-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/walmart-racist-emails-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/walmart-racist-emails-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/walmart-racist-emails-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=759 759w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/walmart-racist-emails-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1518 1518w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 759px\"\/><figcaption>A woman was emailed from a Walmart account calling her the N-word.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear how many people received the email, but dozens complained about the \u201cvery disturbing email\u201d on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart spokeswoman Molly Blakeman said in an email that the perpetrator \u201ccreated false Walmart accounts with obvious intent to offend our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were shocked and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>alled to see these offensive and unacceptable emails,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re looking into our sign up process to ensure something like this doesn\u2019t happen again. We\u2019re also looking into all available means to hold those responsible accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"402\" alt=\"A Walmart spokeswoman says that a fraudster \u201ccreated false Walmart accounts&quot; that sent people emails containing slurs.\" class=\"wp-image-18336695 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/walmart-racist-emails-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/walmart-racist-emails-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/walmart-racist-emails-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/walmart-racist-emails-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/walmart-racist-emails-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A Walmart spokeswoman says that a fraudster \u201ccreated false Walmart accounts\u201d that sent people emails containing slurs.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There\u2019s no evidence of any internal hacking at Walmart, and all falsely created accounts were shut down on Tuesday.\u00a0\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The perpetrator found other people\u2019s email addresses and signed them up for a Walmart account. The company sent an auto-generated \u201cWelcome to Walmart\u201d email, but the email replaced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/walmart-racist-emails-hp.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[107165,4937,32332],"class_list":["post-259282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-25-21","tag-racism","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}