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VISITING
AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE
OCTOBER
2010
EMAIL
TRACKER PROGRAMS
VERY
INTERESTING
AND
A
MUST READ
Forwarded
By Eddy Palffy
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. 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.
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
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