E Mail about E Mail's and Telemarketers.

Ken N Tx

Ken N Tx

MALE
Location
Texas
Interesting
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. Sometimes a good idea to check out something on one of the two sites before forwarding to check validity!

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 favour 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 favour 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 government or any other organization - e.g. 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.

And another important point is to delete all previous names from your emails before forwarding!!! Send emails to your entire address list BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) then everyone after you doesn't get your friend's email address Search the help if your email program doesn't list this. Sometimes have to do special things to blind copy.
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!!!



If enough people follow these tips, it will work I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.




 

I'm glad I've followed my "gut instinct". For years, I've always had a bad feeling about these types of emails and have just deleted them. I didn't trust them period! Another place I don't trust any of this type of posts is on Facebook. It has so many "guilt" type of posts from "if you love God, etc." to pictures of children, etc. but I don't share or "like" these types for the same reason.
 
For Sure...I run a program called BLUR, and over the past 3 or 4 years, it has blocked well over a half million "tracking" attempts on my computer. As I type, there is one trying to follow what I am doing on this forum. Any of these "forward to your friends", or "sign this petition" e-mails will most certainly contain a tracking/spyware/etc., trojan. The hitting of the pound key repeatedly on these robo calls does work....or checking the Caller ID before answering the phone call from some unrecognized number can also be effective.
 

Good advice there Ken, thanks! I rarely get spam emails, but when I do I don't open them or forward them. The phone's been ringing off the hook lately with scammers/spammers, now we don't pick up. I've made a listing near the phone of the numbers that call, after looking some of them up on 800notes website, so I get an idea of where they're from.
 
Nice information. Thanks for sharing. I've always ignored junk email since I know take any action other than delete it will only make me get more junk email. Related to cold-calling, other than a telemarketer, nowadays, there are also many phone scam attempt.
From what I see, most of them are targeting seniors. There are also some cases where the scammer intentionally made a scheme to deceived seniors like this one. Some people already fell for this scam. We need to remain vigilant. There are so many people out there that try every possible way to make easy money by deceiving other people.
 

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