[BITList] E-Mail Tracker Programs - Must read & follow the advice from now on.
franka
franka at iinet.net.au
Wed Jan 19 15:23:35 GMT 2011
By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with snopes.com
<http://snopes.com/>and/or truthorfiction.com
<http://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 <http://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!
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._*
*See below*
*_Tips 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*
*Also when forwarding on emails delete all the addresses and
when adding more than one email address use bcc, not to or cc
then each one only gets it with their address so you are not
sending everyones address all around the planet.*
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