[Nfbf-l] Fw: Help eliminate email trackers

[Patricia A. Lipovsky]

Hmmm, quite interesting.  Although I don't usually pay too much attention to 
the types of emails referred to in this msg, I never thought about the 
possibility of those emails being used as tracking mechanisms!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
To: "nfbf-l" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:54 PM
Subject: [Nfbf-l] Fw: Help eliminate email trackers


> Useful information we should take to heart!
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> From: bill burgess
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 5:39 PM
> Subject: Fw: Help eliminate email trackers
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>            Guess I won't be forwarding a lot of e-mails anymore--just cute 
> jokes, or other info..KJ
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>            Thought this was very informative , I was glad to get it, hope 
> you are too.
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>            Good Advice from Snopes
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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 to read the very last paragraph!!!!
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>                                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 excellent sites.
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>                                Advice from Snopes.com   Very important!
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>                                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 a copy each time 
> it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active ' E-Mail 
> 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!
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>                                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.
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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 will be rewarded by not getting 
> thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!
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>                                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 on' t!...it ' s all about getting 
> email addresses - nothing more!
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>                                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!
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>                                Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable 
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>                                Congress or any other organization - i.e. 
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>                                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're just helping the Email trackers.
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