Hi all! I hope you're having a good
day.
Remember when Phil wrote an article or two about
email messages that can put people in bondage? I got this from a friend,
and I think it's good advice. I've been getting upset when people continue
to forward messages that are old hats that we should know better by now not to
forward anymore. And I'm sure we screen reader users don't like to wade
through sendSemiSendSemiSendSemi...Anyway, here it is, below my
signature.
Sharon
SkypeName:
sharon.hooley43
If you already knew this, good; it's good to send
on to those who might not know.
Good Advice from Snopes
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 to read the very last
paragraph!
Please read :
By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with
www.snopes.com
and/or
www.truthorfiction.com
for
determining whether information received via email is just that:
true/false or fact/fiction.
Both are good sites.
Very important Advice!
1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says
forward this on to ' 10 ' (or however many) of your friends, sign this petition,
or you'll get bad luck, good luck,
you'll see something funny on your screen
after you send it, 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 acopy each time it gets
forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active ' EMail addresses to use in
SPAM E-Mails, 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's
E-mail tracking and they're
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"....E-mail
Tracking!!! Ignore them and don't participate!
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 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 will
be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails
in the future! Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types
of listings regardless
how inviting they might sound!...or make you feel
guilty if you don' t!...it's all about getting email addresses - 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:
When you forward a message do NOT
leave all the previous addresses in it! Once again, this simply provides
Spammers with a major source of good addresses.
If you consider a person
worthy of receiving a message and you feel the message is worthwhile forwarding,
treat the person you are sending it to with respect.
Don’t make them open
several messages to get to what you wish them to see. Take a couple of minutes
and clean up the message before forwarding it. AND
ALWAYS use Bcc when
sending a message to more than one recipient.