Email Forwards... Don't do them!!!!!!!

[TimGelvin]

Here is something everyone should read and take the advice. If you
don't, you're hurting yourself and your email buddies.



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 from Snopes.com Very important!

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 something funny 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, or sell to other spammers. Even when you get
emails that demand you send the email on if you're not ashamed of God/
Jesus ....that's E-mail tracking and they're playing on our
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!!! Ignore them and
don't participate!


2) Almost all 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 GREAT favor by sending
this information to them; you will be providing a service to your
friends, 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 much SPAM!

Do yourself a favor and STOP adding 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 GREAT 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-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other
organization - i.e. social security, etc. To be acceptable, petitions
must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing
the petition, so this is a waste of time and you're just helping the
Email trackers.

Please read the full story here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp

[JustMe]

thank you Tim
justme