EMAIL TRACKING

Subject: EMAIL TRACKING Sun Jun 13, 2010 6:15 am

As Salaam 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi
wa Barakatuh.

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.

He
wrote:

By now, I suspect everyone
is familiar with [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and/or

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] for
determining whether information received

via email is just that:
true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent sites.

Advice from [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] 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 of 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.