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hey guys, i hope this is not one of those it just claims it is NOT!!!!!!
By now, you may be
familiar with : www.snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/>
and/or www.truthorfiction.com http://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 email that says,
“Forward this on to '10' (or however many) of yourfriends”;
“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
email tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails 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' email addresses to use in SPAM emails, 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
email tracking and they're playing on your conscience. These people don't
care how they get your email addresses - just as long as they get
them.
2..
Also,
emails that talk about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease –
"how would
you feel if that was your child?"
....Email Tracking!!! Ignore them and
don't participate!
Almost all emails 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 email is, is a way to get names and
'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers - to validate
active email 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 emails in
the future!
If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of email, 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 stop making it easy for them!
Also: email petitions
are NOT acceptable to Government, or any other organisation –
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
And here’s another take on
the subject:
IMPORTANT!! HOW TO FORWARD
EMAIL APPROPRIATELY
A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly from a system
administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that
ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send emails. Please read the short
letter below, even if you're sure you already follow proper procedures.
“Do you really
know how to forward emails?
50% do;
50% DO
NOT.
Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it?
Every time you forward an email there is information left over from the
people who got the message before you, namely their email addresses &
names. As the messages get
forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all
it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send
that virus to every email address that has come across his computer.
Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to
them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for
each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience over fivecents.
How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps:
(1) When you forward an email, DELETE all of the other addresses that
appear in the body of the message (at the top). That's right, DELETE
them.
Highlight them and delete them, backspace
them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes
a second. You MUST click the 'Forward' button
first and then you will have full editing
capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you
don't click on 'Forward' first, you won't be able to edit the message
at all.
(2) Whenever you send an email to more than one person, do NOT use the
To: or Cc: fields for adding email addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind
carbon copy)field for listing the email addresses. This is the way
the people you send to will only see their own email address.
If you don't see your
BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will
appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's
that easy.
When you send to
BCC: your message will automatically say 'Undisclosed Recipients' in the
'TO:' field of the people who receive it.
(3) Remove any 'FW :' in the subject line.
You can re-name the
subject if you wish or even fix spelling.
(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual email you are
reading.
Ever get those emails that
you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on
it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to view,
you stop them from having to open many emails just to see what you sent.
(5) Have you ever got an email that is a petition?
It states a position and
asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or
your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can
collect thousands of names and email addresses.
A FACT: The
completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional
spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained
therein. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal
letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as
a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a
petition.
(Actually, if you think
about it, who's supposed to send the petition in to whatever cause it
supports? And don't believe the ones that say that the email is being
traced, it just ain't so!)
(6) One of the main ones I hate is the ones that
say that something like, 'Send this email to 10 people and you'll see
something great run across your screen.' Or,
sometimes they'll just tease you by saying something really cute will
happen.
IT AINT GONNA
HAPPEN!!!!!
(Trust me, I'm
still seeing some of the same ones that I waited on 10 years ago!) I
don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed.
(7) Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some
of the other ones floating around nowadays, check them
out before you forward them.
Most of them are
junk mail that's been circling the net for YEARS! Just about
everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at
Snopes.
Just go tohttp://www.snopes.com/”
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