Cold email addressed to wrong person

I sent out a cold email to a random investment banker. The problem is that I addressed the email to the wrong person. I accidentally adressed it to his collegue.

It is a stupid mistake and out of all the cold emails I have sent I have never made a stupid mistake like this.

Do I send an apology email or do I just ignore it?

The last thing I want is for my email to be forwarded around especially if it has my CV attached.

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Honestly I would ignore it, mistakes happen. I did this to someone as well, got his name wrong. It was late and I just forgot to change my template to include the correct name. You could email him to correct yourself, totally up to you. I'm sure someone with more experience in situations like these will chime in.

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