Topic: E-mail/spammers
catchme_ifucan's photo
Sun 05/06/07 05:24 AM
Good Info.

From Snopes.com

If your going to pass something along?, Let it be THIS!

To whom it all concerns:

Just a word to the wise. E-mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress
or any other municipality. To be acceptable, petitions must have a
signed signature and full address. Same with "prayer chains" -- be wary.

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 this
type of e-mail is, is to get names and "cookie" tracking info for
telemarketers and spammers to validate active e-mail accounts for their
own purposes.

Any time you see an e-mail that says forward this on to "10" of your
friends, sign this petition, or you'll get good luck, or whatever, it
has either an e-mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies
and e-mails of those folks you forward to, or 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.

Please forward this notice to others and you will be providing a good
service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting 30,000 spam
e-mails in the future.

(If you have been sending out the above kinds of email, now you know why
you get so much spam!)

Check it out: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm

CATBW56's photo
Sun 05/06/07 05:28 AM
thanks for sharing (((((catch))))) I delete the silly things and move
on:smile:

catchme_ifucan's photo
Sun 05/06/07 07:25 AM
grumble I'll send them back to the person

& say don't send me this voodoo cursed crap! explode

COME ON!! THEY CURSE THE PAYERS!! HOW TWISTED IS THAT!
grumble