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by eddd-ddde 614 days ago
I think this might be a lazy attempt to protect users from scammers trying to impersonate the company.

There are people that will read an email from "SamsungCeo@gmail.com" and think it's actually from the owner of the company...

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I would venture a guess that there is an equal proportion of company executives who would think that creating and using an email address like 'CompanyCeo@gmail.com' was completely fine - an awareness of internet scams is not correlated with business acumen!