The man who 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.
Not all email "forwards" are bad---only some.
Not all email "forwards" are bad---only some.
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He wrote:
By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with snopes.com and/or truthorfiction.com to determine whether information received via email is true/false or fact/fiction. But . . .while both are excellent sites, also keep in mind that just like the news media, they do not always tell the truth!
Some helpful advice:
1) Ignore and delete any email that says:
> "forward this on to 10 (or however many) of your friends",
> "you'll get bad luck. . ."
> "you'll get good luck. . ."
> "you'll see something funny on your screen after you send it"
> "if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus. . ." --- This is called email tracking, in which the original sender attaches a "cookie" trailer which would keep track of all active email addresses that "forward" the message. This is how spam or junk email senders build up their database of email addresses, and who also sells the list of email addresses to other spammers and junk email mailers.
Do yourself and your email friends a favor by not forwarding any of the above type of email.
The same is true of emails that:
> ask you to add your name to a "mass" letter or petition and forward the letter/petition to others in your address book;
> ask 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 any similar type of email--- is just a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers to validate active email accounts for their own profitable purposes.
Again, do yourself and your email friends a favor --- stop forwarding and/or adding your name to any type of "mass" letter or petition regardless how inviting it might sound! Those types of email are nothing more than just ways to get email addresses.
You may think you are supporting a "great cause", but you are NOT!
Instead, you are merely helping the spammers and junk email senders to get rich, and you will just be getting tons of spam and junk email later, and very possibly even a virus attached!
Also, keep in mind that email petitions are not acceptable in Congress or any government organization or agency---such as, Social Security, etc. In order for a petition to be acceptable and valid, it must contain the petitioner's full address, typed full name, and the person's actual [signed] signature.
So to add one's name to an email "mass" letter or petition is a total waste of time, and is only helping the email trackers and spammers.
Tips for Handling Telemarketers:
1) If you have caller ID, do not answer a number that does not look familiar or is unknown to you.
2) If you have no caller ID, let your answering machine screen your calls. Do not pick up the receiver or answer a call, if the voice is unfamiliar/unknown to you.
But, if you have the habit of "automatically" picking up the phone and promptly answering a call, and the caller happens to be a telemarketer (unless you are really interested to know what is being sold), there are two ways to save you:
hang up immediately; or
(b) use the "three little words" method. The three little words are: 'please hold on...' And here is what you do:
> tell the caller: "please hold on..."; then
> put down the receiver on the table or counter;
So to add one's name to an email "mass" letter or petition is a total waste of time, and is only helping the email trackers and spammers.
Tips for Handling Telemarketers:
1) If you have caller ID, do not answer a number that does not look familiar or is unknown to you.
2) If you have no caller ID, let your answering machine screen your calls. Do not pick up the receiver or answer a call, if the voice is unfamiliar/unknown to you.
But, if you have the habit of "automatically" picking up the phone and promptly answering a call, and the caller happens to be a telemarketer (unless you are really interested to know what is being sold), there are two ways to save you:
hang up immediately; or
(b) use the "three little words" method. The three little words are: 'please hold on...' And here is what you do:
> tell the caller: "please hold on..."; then
> put down the receiver on the table or counter;
> walk away from the phone;
> wait until you hear the phone "beep-beeping" --- it's the signal that the caller has hung up; and
> wait until you hear the phone "beep-beeping" --- it's the signal that the caller has hung up; and
> then put the receiver back in the phone cradle.
By doing "(b)"above instead of hanging-up immediately, it would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming and that will hopefully help "boiler room sales" calls to grind to a halt.
Do you get annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
By doing "(b)"above instead of hanging-up immediately, it would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming and that will hopefully help "boiler room sales" calls to grind to a halt.
Do you get annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing ploy 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 if you "accidentally" answer such a call is--- after having said "Hello" a couple of times and there is no response from the other end, immediately press the # button six or seven times in rapid succession [as rapidly as you can]. This confuses the machine that dialed the call, and it kicks your number out of their system, which also means that your name/number is no longer in their system!
Dealing with junk mail in the regular mail:
When you get 'advertisements' with your bills --- electric, gas, phone, water bill, etc., return the 'ads' with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
2) When you get 'pre-approved' letters for credit cards, bank loans, 2nd mortgages, etc., do not throw away the postage-paid return envelope.
It would cost them nothing if you just throw away the postage-paid envelope.
But it will cost them more than the regular 44 cents postage, if/when they receive a "mail back" to their advertisement---the postage was around 50 cents before the last increase, and they are charged according to the weight.
In that case, you can get rid of some of your other junk mail by mailing them in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
Here is what you can do:
If the postage-paid return envelope is from, let's say: American Express, Citibank, or whatever advertiser it might be. . .
> put a coupon from Pizza Hut or a local shoe repair shop in their postage-paid return envelope and mail it back to them; --or--
> send back their own letter and the enclosed application form completely blank. If you want to remain anonymous, make sure your name does not appear on anything you send them: --or--
> send the envelope back empty if you want them to just to keep guessing!
The banks and credit card companies put out a lot of junk mail. They are also getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but they need to be to overwhelmed with their own junk. Let them know how it feels to get lots of junk mail, and best of all, if you do the above, they'll be paying for their junk twice!
This will also help to keep the U.S. Postal Service busy since they claim that e-mail has cut into their business profits, and that's why they keep increasing the cost of stamps and other postal services.
If enough people follow the above tips, it will help reduce (if not completely eliminate) junk mail.
Author’s Name Unknown
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 if you "accidentally" answer such a call is--- after having said "Hello" a couple of times and there is no response from the other end, immediately press the # button six or seven times in rapid succession [as rapidly as you can]. This confuses the machine that dialed the call, and it kicks your number out of their system, which also means that your name/number is no longer in their system!
Dealing with junk mail in the regular mail:
When you get 'advertisements' with your bills --- electric, gas, phone, water bill, etc., return the 'ads' with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
2) When you get 'pre-approved' letters for credit cards, bank loans, 2nd mortgages, etc., do not throw away the postage-paid return envelope.
It would cost them nothing if you just throw away the postage-paid envelope.
But it will cost them more than the regular 44 cents postage, if/when they receive a "mail back" to their advertisement---the postage was around 50 cents before the last increase, and they are charged according to the weight.
In that case, you can get rid of some of your other junk mail by mailing them in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
Here is what you can do:
If the postage-paid return envelope is from, let's say: American Express, Citibank, or whatever advertiser it might be. . .
> put a coupon from Pizza Hut or a local shoe repair shop in their postage-paid return envelope and mail it back to them; --or--
> send back their own letter and the enclosed application form completely blank. If you want to remain anonymous, make sure your name does not appear on anything you send them: --or--
> send the envelope back empty if you want them to just to keep guessing!
The banks and credit card companies put out a lot of junk mail. They are also getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but they need to be to overwhelmed with their own junk. Let them know how it feels to get lots of junk mail, and best of all, if you do the above, they'll be paying for their junk twice!
This will also help to keep the U.S. Postal Service busy since they claim that e-mail has cut into their business profits, and that's why they keep increasing the cost of stamps and other postal services.
If enough people follow the above tips, it will help reduce (if not completely eliminate) junk mail.
Author’s Name Unknown
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