E-Mail Tracker Programs -- very interesting !!!
I'm glad I got this one ...
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
and/or 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 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 favor 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.
I'm glad I got this one ...
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
and/or 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 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 favor 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.