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15 years ago

Subject: Very Interesting Note from Snopes!

I imagine you are familiar with the Snopes site. Whenever I get a message with a dire warning I check it out with Snopes - most of them are false. I think you will find the following interesting.

From Snopes.com

If you are going to pass something along . . . . let it

be THIS!

To

whom it all concerns:

Just

a word to the wise. E-mail petitions are NOT acceptable

to Congress or any other municipality. To be acceptable,

petitions must have a signed signature and full address.

Same with 'prayer chains' -- be wary!

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 Gui nness Book

of Records for the most cards.

All it was, and all this type of e-mail is, is to get names and

'cookie' tracking info for telemarketers and spammers

to validate active e-mail accounts for their own

purposes.

Any time you see an e-mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign this

petition, or you'll get good luck, or what ever,

it has either an e-mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and e-mails of those folks you

forward to, or the host sender is getting a copy. Each

time it gets forwarded, then it's able to get lists of

'active' e-mails to use in spam e-mails, or sell to others that do.

Please forward this notice to others and you will be providing

a good service to your friends, and will be rewarded by

not getting 30,000 spam e-mails in the future.

(If you have been sending out the above kinds of email,

now you know why you get so much spam!)

Check it out:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm

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Comments (3)

cherbo
15 years ago
Snopes says this is false.
Read Advice About Internet Petitions E-Mail Falsely Attributed to Snopes on following link.

Here is a link that might be useful: Snopes
sheilajoyce_gw
Original Author
15 years ago
Well, thanks, I thought my friend had checked it out. Ah well, I really would rather that no one else send me things I must forward to a certain number of people or bad luck will visit me. I never forward them.
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joyfulguy
15 years ago
Hi again, everyone,

Anyone interested in helping some bank exec. in Nigeria ... Oagadougou, Burkina Faso, or Hong Kong, Netherlands, U.K., etc. ...

... move several (usually 5 - 30 or so) millions of U.S. Dollars from their bank, that belonged to an upstanding citizen, who was tragically killed, with all of his family, in a plane crash ...

... and no one has appeared as next-of-kin to collect all of that money????

They'd love to have you collect it as next of kin, in partnership with them (as they can't), then help them invest it in your area ... and you can have 30% (and there'll be 10% for expenses, etc.).

I've received about 150 of them, to just one email address (the main one to which they come) ... if I'd followed up on them and they'd been successful ...

... I think that I'd be almost a billionaire, by now.

Couldn't think of doing that ... what would I ever do with all of the money??

(First thing - hire a bodyguard!).

Next ... don't visit Colombia ... Haiti ... or a few other countries. Or some parts of some of our cities!

I hope that you all have a super week.

Some of my garden's coming up.

Where I poured water over the peas, just after locating them ... and they floated ... there are some coming up in clumps ... other places where there are none.

Looks like some transplanting, soon!

ole joyful

P.S. No need to send this message to 10 friends (no untoward experiences can be expected to ensue for you) ...

... unless you think that it would/(might) do them some good!

Heck ... I can even offer them a suggestion that would help them make about 35% on their money ...

... guaranteed!

Where can you go to get a better deal than that?

(I know - late-night infomercials, no?).

(If they may be Canadian ... the possibility of single "taxpayer" making up to $46,345. annual income without incurring a cent of income tax liability!!).

o j

P.P.S. Those financial claims that I made above?

Straight goods!

Have I ever lied to you?

o j, O. K.?

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