[Seekers] FW: WHY I WON'T BE FORWARDING SOME EMAILS

[Kathie C. Sherrill]

About #-Mails

 

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 back luck, good luck, or
whatever, it almost always has an e-mail tracker program attached that
tracks the cookies and e-mail addresses 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 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 "cookies" 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.

 

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 names to those types of listings,
regardless of how inviting they might sound.

 

You may think you are supporting a great cause, but you are NOT.  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 other
organization.  To be acceptable, petitions mush have a signed signature and
full address of the person signing the petition.

 

ALSO;  PLEASE REMOVER ALL EMAIL ADDRESSES STILL ATTACHED BEFORE YOU FORWARD
A MESSAGE.  IT IS PUTTING EVERYONE'S NAME OUT THERE.

 

Most people use a nickname for their email just so their real name is not
out there on the Internet, BUT...if you have listed their real name in your
contacts, it will also show up next to their email address.  Be a friend and
delete all the names before forwarding.  Even better, send everything by
BCC.  That's Blind Carbon Copy.  That way NO names will every show up on an
email.

 

BTW: NO large corporation is making charitable contributions for each person
you forward an email to/  They are also not giving away anything else free
for forwarding email to X-number of people.

 

Hope this information helps you and protects your identity.

 

NO...I am not forwarding this...lol...I actually took the time to type
it....so NO SPAM here...

 

 

 

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