[SOC] Fw: E-Mail Tracker Programs

[Bob Krueger]

Subject: Fw: E-Mail Tracker Programs



Just a bit of info for the members:
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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 Florida 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 or 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.























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