Advice from Snopes
Here is a nice little tidbit of information
that came my way this morning. So if any of you are wondering why I didn't
return something to you that said something like "if I don't get this back
I'll"....or, "See how many flowers you can get back," or "Forward this to 10
people in the next 5 mins. Or something bad will happen to you," etc. The
following is why .. don't send them back:
Advice from Snopes.com <
http://snopes. com/ >
1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says
forward this on to "10" of your friends, or 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 lists of "active" E-Mails to use in SPAM
E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.
2) Al most 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 (PLEASE) 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!
Al so: E-Mail petitions are NOT
acceptable to Congress or any other organization. To be acceptable, petitions
must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing the
petition.
FINAL TIP: DELETE ALL EMAILS ADDRESSES
PLEASE, THEN FRWD, AND THEN SEND ALL MAIL BCC ONLY, THIS ALSO ELIMINATES
SPAM.
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