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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) 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 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!
Also: 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.
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