Advice from Snopes.com
1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign thispetition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker programattached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to. The hostsender 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 thatmass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida whowanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any ofthis type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketersand spammers - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitablepurposes.
You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this information tothem; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not gettingthousands of spam E-Mails in the future!
If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know whyyou get so much SPAM! Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those typesof 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 not make it easy for them!
Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any otherorganization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and fulladdress of the person signing the petition.
Read the full story here:
snopes.com: Internet Petitions
1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign thispetition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker programattached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to. The hostsender 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 thatmass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida whowanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any ofthis type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketersand spammers - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitablepurposes.
You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this information tothem; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not gettingthousands of spam E-Mails in the future!
If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know whyyou get so much SPAM! Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those typesof 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 not make it easy for them!
Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any otherorganization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and fulladdress of the person signing the petition.
Read the full story here:
snopes.com: Internet Petitions