"The National Westminster Bank admitted last month that it keeps personal information about its customers-such as their political
affiliation-on computer. But now Computer Weekly reveals that a financial institution, sadly unnamed, has gone one better and
moved into the realm of personal abuse.
The institution decided to mailshot 2000 of its richest customers, inviting them to buy extra services. One of its computer
programmers wrote a program to search through its databases and select its customers automatically. He tested the program with
an imaginary customer called Rich Bastard.
Unfortunately, an error resulted in all 2000 letters being addressed "Dear Rich Bastard." The luckless programmer was
subsequently sacked."
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