Subject: ADVICE FROM SNOPES - on "Sending e-mails"
(Please copy and paste this as a new email and tell them to do the same and send this to all of your email friends and help stamp out SPAM.)
ADVICE FROM SNOPES - on "Sending e-mails" (This very important information
to read and share with your family and other email friends.)
By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with www.snopes.com and/or
www..truthorfiction.com for determining whether information received via
email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction... Both are excellent sites.
Advice fromSnopes.com
1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says "Forward this on to 10
(or however many) of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck,
good luck, you'll see somethingfunny on your screen after you send it, or
whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks
the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to.
The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is
able to get lists of 'active' E-Mail addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, orsellto
other spammers. Even when you get emails that demand you send the email
on "...if you're not ashamedof God/Jesus" that's E-mailtrackingand they're
playing on your conscience. These people don't care how they get your email
addresses - just as long as they get them. Also, emails that talk about a
missing child or a child with an incurable disease- "How would you feel if that
was your child..." - E-mail Tracking !Ignorethem anddon't participate!
2) Free greeting cards from family members are not what they seem. They are
just another way they gather your addresses. They get two for each card sent
and retrieved.
3) Almostall E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others
are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business
cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of
Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is,
is a way to get names and 'cookie'tracking information for telemarketers and
spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes. .
You can do your Friends and Family members a GREATfavor by sending this
information to them. You will be providing a service to them, and will be
rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!
If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail,
now you know why you get so muchSPAM!
Do yourself a favor and STOPadding your name(s) to those types of listings
regardless how inviting they might sound or make you feel guilty if you don't!
It’s all about getting email addresses - nothing more!
You may think you are supporting a worthy cause, but you are NOT!
Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a
virus attached! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich!
Let's don't make it easy for them!
Also: E-Mailpetitions are NOTacceptable to Congress
or any other organization - i.e. social security, etc..
To be acceptableand legal, apetition must have a signed
signature and full address of the person signing the
petition. So, this is a waste of your time and you're
just helping the Email trackers.
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