[SOC] Fw: E-Mail Tracker Programs

[Dana Browne AD5VC]

Let me see if I get this straight.

This email is about not forwarding broadcast emails because they just provide a mechanism to verify email addresses to spammers.  These emails typically sound very authoritative and urgent, but in fact are hoaxes.

This email comes from a source of authority who urges you not to forward emails, and at the end it encourages you to, uhh, forward it to all your friends.

Hmmmmm.  I think my head hurts.

Dana
AD5VC


--- On Sun, 5/9/10, Bob Krueger <wb9ukq at ticon.net> wrote:

> From: Bob Krueger <wb9ukq at ticon.net>
> Subject: [SOC] Fw: E-Mail Tracker Programs
> To: "SOC post" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Sunday, May 9, 2010, 12:55 PM
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> Subject: Fw: E-Mail Tracker Programs
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> Just a bit of info for the members:
> submitted by wb9ukq  /   bob
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are
> NOT!
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> 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!
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> 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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