Thanks. This is great advice. Anna On 27-Sep-2015 5:30 pm, "Nochur Ramanathan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > *This is great, check it all out!* > > > > > > E-Mail Tracker Programs -- very interesting and a must read! > > The man that sent this information is a computer tech. He spends a lot > of time clearing the junk off computers for people and listens to > complaints about speed. All forwards are not bad, just some. Be sure you > read the very last paragraph. > > _________________________________________ > > He wrote: > > By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with snopes.Com > <http://snopes.com/> and/or truthorfiction.Com > <http://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 <http://snopes.com/> VERY IMPORTANT!!* > > 1) Any time you see an email that says "forward this on to '10' (or > however many) of your friends", "sign this petition", or "you'll get bad > luck" or "you'll get good luck" or "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 > is email tracking, and they are 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" --- email > tracking. *Ignore them and don't participate!* > > > > 2) 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 favor by sending this > information to them. You will be providing a service to your friends. And > you will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam emails in the future! > > Do yourself a favour and *STOP adding your name(s)* to those types of > listing regardless how inviting they might sound! Or make you feel guilty > if you don't! It's all about getting email addresses and 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 not > make it easy for them! > > > > *ALSO: Email 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 are just helping the email > trackers.* > > > > > > > > *Tips for Handling Telemarketers:* > > Three Little Words That Work!! > > (1)The three little words are: *'Hold On, Please...'* > > Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of > hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more > time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. > > Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, > you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has > efficiently completed its task. > > These three little words *will help* eliminate telephone soliciting.. > > > * (2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other > end? * > This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and > records the time of day when a person answers the phone. > > This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' > sales person to call back and get someone at home. > > What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is > to immediately start hitting your *# button on the phone, 6 or 7 times as > quickly as possible.* This confuses the machine that dialed the call, and > it kicks your number out of their system.. Gosh, what a shame not to have > your name in their system any longer!!! > > *(3) Junk Mail Help:* > > > When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these > 'ads' with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk > mail away. > > When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything > from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away > the return envelope. > > Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs > them more than the regular 44 cents postage, 'IF' and when they receive > them back. > > It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 > cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that > case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these > cool little, postage-paid return envelopes. > > > > Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail > is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to > increase postage costs again. You get the idea! > > > ALSO: Neither Fed Ex nor the FBI use email to contact people. Delete all > messages from them. > > > If enough people follow these tips, it will work. I have been doing this > for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore. > > *THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR > FRIENDS* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
