Cold Emails Rejected by Server (?)

So I just started sending out cold emails (just finished freshman year) and it seems like at Credit Suisse and Citi no matter what formatting I use my email is rejected as "User Unknown". Didn't have a problem sending one off to Morgan Stanley. Currently working off of the formats provided by the attached spreadsheet I found in a thread here from 2012. Thoughts? Anyone else having this problem or advice for cold emailing in general?

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middle initials, nicknames, both are massive banks so could have two people with same name so they use numbers

there's so many possible reasons for the rejection

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