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1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of

your friends sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, or whatever,

it has either an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the

cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward. The host sender is

getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get

lists of 'active' E-Mails to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to others

that do.

 

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 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!

 

If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail,

now you know why you get so much SPAM!

 

Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(S) to those type

listings regardless how inviting they might sound!

You think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the

long run. Instead,! you will be getting tons of junk mail later in life!

 

Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other

organization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed

signature and full address of the person signing the petition. Read

the full story here:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp

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