One Of The Most Useful Chain Emails I Have Received In A Long Time!

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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He wrote:
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.

Advice from 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 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 are just help­ing the email trackers.

Finally, even when you for­ward a legit­i­mate e-mail to mul­ti­ple peo­ple, strip all of the address head­ers out of the mes­sage before you send it.  It’s easy to do: just high­light them all and hit ‘Delete’ or ‘Back­space’.  Also, place all of the addresses you are send­ing the mes­sage to in the ‘Bcc’ field.  This will pre­vent spam­mers and other ‘bad guys out there’ from see­ing and gath­er­ing the e-mail addresses for nui­sance or mali­cious pur­poses.  If you want to be sure the mes­sage was sent and received prop­erly, place your own e-mail address in the ‘To’ field.

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