GET RID OF JUNK

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This is great, check it all out!

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.

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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.

manish kothari