E-MAIL TRACKING
Here is something everyone should read and take the advice.... If you don't,
you are hurting yourself and your email buddies.
By now, I guess 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 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 favour 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 favour 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, you are helping the spammers get rich! Let's not make it
easy for them!
Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to White House, 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.
