09/03/08 Advice from Snopes.com
Newk's Nook: Frank forwarded this to me. I thought it important enough to pass it on to you.
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 inFlorida 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
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.
Read the full story here: <http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp>
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