Petitions etc.
>
> 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 info rmation
> 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 you rself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of
> listings regardless how inviting
> they might sound! You may think you ar e 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.
>
> Read the full story here:
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