steve in so la
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Any time you see an email that says "forward this on to '10' (orhowever many) of your friends", "sign this petition", or "you'll get badluck" or "you'll get good luck" or "you'll see something funny on yourscreen after you send it" or whatever --- it almost always has an emailtracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails of thosefolks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time itgets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' email addressesto use in SPAM emails or sell to other spammers. Even when you getemails that demand you send the email on if you're not ashamed ofGod/Jesus --- that is email tracking, and they are playing on ourconscience. 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 toothers are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people tosend business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break theGuinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any ofthis type of email is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' trackinginformation for telemarketers and spammers -- to validate active emailaccounts for their own profitable purposes.
2) Almost all emails that ask you to add your name and forward on toothers are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people tosend business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break theGuinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any ofthis type of email is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' trackinginformation for telemarketers and spammers -- to validate active emailaccounts for their own profitable purposes.
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