Good Advice from Snopes!! Ever wonder why you get so much spam???
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Advice from Snopes.com MEMORIZE THIS!
1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, 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 list s of 'active' E-Mails addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.
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 friend s 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!
You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run. Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later! 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 otherorganization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and f ull address of the pers on signing the petition.
Read the full story here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp
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Subject: FW: Animal Rescue
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 00:09:11 -0400
From: Paula Glatz <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "Keith Cooper" <[email protected]>, "Lisa and
Mark Rasor" <[email protected]>, "Nancy Easter"
<[email protected]>, "Rick and Gina Bogaski"
<[email protected]>, "Bob & Lee Lambert" <bllambert@pulsenet.com>, "Jim
and Debbie" <[email protected]>, "John Simpson"
<[email protected]>, "Marci Razetea" <[email protected]>,
"Mum" <[email protected]>, "Ronald Razetea" <[email protected]>,
"Susie Woodfield" <[email protected]>, "Tammy Bone"
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Great tips Candy
Also another tip when sending out emails to more then one person put ALL the emails in the "BCC" area (Blind Carbon Copy). That way no one sees anyones email addy so that if the email is forwarded on that the emails in it are not spamed.