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From: "jechi...@aol.com" <jechi...@aol.com>
To: jechi...@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 9:35 PM
Subject: Good Hints
I heard of returning all the credit card applications back in their own
self addressed envelope several years ago. I was receiving so much junk mail it
was worth the few minutes it took to put everything I received from them back
in
that envelope they included along with the one it came in adding extra
weight... I did however use a black marker to cross through the offer and
boldly
told them to take my name off there list... it took about 5-6 months of
faithfully returning everything that came to me and they did stop coming...
what
a relief... so I know that one works...as for several of the others I just got
tired of them... I would read them and forget sending them on to all of you...
interesting info... jan
This is great, check it all
out!
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
snopes.Comand/or truthorfiction.Com for determining whether information
received
via email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent
sites.
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
profitablepurposes.
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 STOPadding 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 or 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.
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!!!
(3) Junk Mail
Help:
When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or
utility bill, return these 'ads' with your payment.Let the sending companies
throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in
the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type
junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes,
right?It costs them more
than the regular 44 cents postage, 'IF' and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away!
The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to
the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and
put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney 's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your
local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to
Citibank.If you didn't get anything else that
day, then just send them their blank application
back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure
your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you
want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 44
cents.
The banks and credit card companies are
currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need
to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail,
and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that
e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to
increase postage costs again.You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work I have been doing
this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT
YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR
FRIENDS
