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From Snopes.com
If you are 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
what ever,
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, then it's 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:
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