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 child 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 an d spammers to validate active e-mail a! cco unts 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 bad luck, or what ever, it has either an
e-mail
tracker
program attached that tracks the cookies and e-mails of those folks you
forw a r d to, or
the host sender is getting a copy.
Each time it gets forwarded it is then 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 -m ails 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:/w.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm
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