A bit long but worth the read!
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 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 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 of 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.
T ips 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.
One of Andy Rooney 's (60 minutes)
ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express.
Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that
day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to
remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send
them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to
keep them guessing! It still costs them 44 cents.
The banks and credit
card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the
mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's
like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for
it...Twice!
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!
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
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