E-Mail Tracker Programs -- very
interesting and a must
read!
�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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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.
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 of 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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T�ips for Handling
Telemarketers�
Three
Little Words That Work!!
�
(1)The
three little words are:�'Hold On, Please...'�
�Saying
this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up
immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that
boiler room sales would grind to a halt.�
�
Then
when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you know
it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed
its task.
�
�These
three little words�will
help�eliminate
telephone soliciting..�
�
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone
calls with no one on the other end?�
This is
a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time
of day when a person answers the phone.�
�
This
technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' sales person to
call back and get someone at home.�
�
�What
you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to
immediately start hitting your�# button on the phone, 6 or 7 times as
quickly as possible.�This
confuses the machine that dialed the call, and it kicks your number out of their
system.. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any
longer!!!�
(3) Junk Mail Help:�
When you get
'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these 'ads' with your
payment.�Let the
sending companies throw their own junk mail away.�
�
�When
you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from credit
cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return
envelope.�
�
Most
of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right?�It costs
them more than the regular 44 cents postage, 'IF' and when they receive them
back.�
�
�It
costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents
before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why
not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little,
postage-paid return envelopes.�
One of Andy Rooney 's (60 minutes)
ideas.�
Send an
ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to
Citibank.�If you
didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application
back!
If you want to remain
anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send
them.
�
You can
even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It
still costs them 44 cents.
�
The
banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk
back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what
it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for
it...Twice!�
�
Let's
help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting
into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs
again.�You get
the idea!
�
If
enough people follow these tips, it will work I have been doing this for years,
and I get very little junk mail anymore.�
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL
WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR
FRIENDS
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