Email blocking inbound credit card numbers -- PCTECH

Subject: Email blocking inbound credit card numbers
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:38:44 -0500
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I've noticed something kind of interesting on the mailing lists recently.

Some mail servers are blocking inbound email that appear to contain credit card numbers.

I can understand restrictions on filtering outbound mail that might contain credit card numbers. While it's obviously not a good idea to send a credit card number in email, why would a company block mail that does contain one?

david

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