E-Mail Tracker Programs -- very interesting and a must read!
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!! 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. 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.
(HOWEVER, if it came from an organization u normally do business with, this is likely a fine method 2 use
2 communicate!! l have used it very successfully that way.)
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, 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 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.
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 no one is 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 to no longer have your name in their system!!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get 'ads' enclosed in any utility bill, return the 'ads' with your payment. Let the companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar junk mail, do not throw away the return envelope. Return it w/a note to remove you from their mailing list.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes. 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 in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes too.
One of Andy Rooney 's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they say e-mail cut into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again.
If enough people follow these tips, it will work. I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
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!! 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. 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.
(HOWEVER, if it came from an organization u normally do business with, this is likely a fine method 2 use
2 communicate!! l have used it very successfully that way.)
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, 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 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.
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 no one is 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 to no longer have your name in their system!!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get 'ads' enclosed in any utility bill, return the 'ads' with your payment. Let the companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar junk mail, do not throw away the return envelope. Return it w/a note to remove you from their mailing list.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes. 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 in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes too.
One of Andy Rooney 's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they say e-mail cut into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again.
If enough people follow these tips, it will work. I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
