[Nfbf-l] Fw: Help eliminate email trackers
Kitty King
joenkitty at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 25 21:36:03 UTC 2010
Sherri:
I need your personal email address. I thought I had it updated, however,
the message I sent, today, was returned.
Thanks.
Kitty
----- 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!
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> 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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