[Nfbf-l] Fw: Help eliminate email trackers

[Sherri]

Useful information we should take to heart!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: bill burgess 
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 5:39 PM
Subject: Fw: Help eliminate email trackers







       Help eliminate email trackers



            Hope this is helpful.  
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            Guess I won't be forwarding a lot of e-mails anymore--just cute jokes, or other info..KJ

            Thought this was very informative , I was glad to get it, hope you are too.


            Good Advice from Snopes  

            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!!!!
             
                                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. 

                                 
                                Advice from Snopes.com   Very important!

                                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!


                                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. 

                                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! 

                                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!

                                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: E-Mail 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're just helping the Email trackers.   
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                             
                       
                 
           




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