Snopes advice

Hi   this makes even clearer what my husband has already explained to 

me………..  DONE!

*Advice from Snopes:

  Here is a nice little tidbit of information that came my way this 

morning, so if any of you are wondering why I won’t return something to 

you that said something like ‘if I don’t get this back I’ll….or, ‘See 

how many flowers  or hugs you can get back’, or ‘Forward this to 10 

people in the next 5 mins. Or something bad will happen to you’, etc.

  The following is why I will not send them.

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* 1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to ’10′ of 

your friends, or sign this petition, or you’ll get bad luck, good luck, 

or whatever,  it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached 

that tracks the cookies and E-Mails 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’ E-Mails to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell 

to other spammers.

  2) 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 any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get 

names and ‘cookie ‘ tracking information for telemarketers and spammers 

- – to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.

  You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor (PLEASE) by 

sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to 

your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam 

E-Mails in the future!

  If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, 

now you know why you get so much SPAM!

   Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(S) to those types of 

listings regardless how inviting they might sound! You may think you are 

supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run. Instead, you 

will be getting tons of junk mail later! Plus, we are helping the 

spammers get rich! Let’s don’t make it easy for them!

  Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other 

organization.   To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature 

and full address of the person signing the petition.

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