Forwarding Emails
As you all know, I'm an advocate of 'checking out' everything on 'Snopes'. I received the following just a few minutes ago from a dear friend, and instead of 'forwarding' it, I 'copied' it and 'pasted' so you wouldn't get 'another forward'...... I went to Snopes to try and find the origin of this message, and could not 'quickly' discover it. However, I think it's really good advice. Anything that's really good, helpful, etc., you can 'copy and paste' it instead of forwarding. Also, I DID find the 'petition' info on snopes.com. The 'link' is in the last line of the info, but I actually went to this site: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/Internet.asp
Just food for thought, and for your info. Maggie
Advice from Snopes:
1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, or whatever, it has either an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets for warded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mails to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to others that do.
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 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 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 type listings regardless how inviting they might sound!
You 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 in life!
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 storyhere: Http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/Internet.asp
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