Fw: Good InformationOT

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Thought this might help the group in many ways emails and helping with scams

  Ann Fultz

 

 

Subject: : Good Information

 

This is really good info especially about deleting addresses and proving things

before we forward them.  THERE IS NO WAY Microsoft OR ANYONE ELSE CAN " TRACK "

EMAIL TRAFFIC.  THAT SCHOOL CHILD WHO WANTS THE EMAIL TO GO AROUND THE WORLD

SEVERAL TIMES IS ALSO A SPAM SCAM.  THERE ARE SO MANY HOAXES IT IS BETTER TO BE

SCEPTICAL OF EVERYTHING.

Good Advice about emails

A friend who's a computer expert received the following from a system

administrator for a corporate system.  It is an excellent message that

absolutely  applies to all of us who send emails.  Please read the short letter

below, even if you're sure you already follow proper procedures. Do you really

know how to forward emails?  Only 50% of us do.

Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail and hate it?  Every time you

forward an email there is information left over from the peopl e who got it

before you, namely their email ad dresses and names.  As the messages get

forwarded along, the list of addresses build and build, until all it takes is

for some poor sap to get a virus and his/ her computer can send that virus to

every email address that has come across his computer.  Or, someone can take all

of those addresses and sell  or send them junk mail in the hopes that you'll go

to the site and he'll make five cents for each hit.  That's right, all of that

inconvenience over a nickel!  How do you stop it?  There are several easy steps.

T ry the following if you aren't doing it already:

(1)  When you forward an email, delete all of the addresses that appear in the

body of the message (at the top). That's right, delete them< /U>.  Highlight

them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to

do.  It only takes a second.  You must click the 'Forward' button first and then

you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the

message.  If you don't click 'Forward' first, you won't be able to edit the

message at all.

(2)  Whenever you send an email to more than one person, do not use the To: or

Cc: fields for adding addresses.   Always use the BCC:(blind carbon copy) field

for listing the addresses.  This way the people you send to will only see their

own email address.  If you don't see your BCC: option click on where it says To:

and your address list will appear.  Highlight the address and choose BCC and

that's it, it's that easy.  When you send to BCC your message will automatically

say 'Undisclosed Recipients' in the 'TO:' field of the people who receive it.

(3)  Remove any 'FW '  in the subject line.  You can rename the subject if you

wish or even fix spelling.

(4)  Always hit your Forward button from the actual email you are reading.  Ever

get those emails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the

information on it?   By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to

view, you stop them from having to open many email screens just to see what you

sent. 

(5)  Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition?  It states a position and

asks you to add your name and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire

address book.  The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of

names and addresses. & nbs p; A FACT: The petition is actually worth a couple of

bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of names and addresses

contained there. Do not put your email address on any petition.  If you want to

support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended

recipient.  Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a

laundry list of names and addresses on a petition.  (And don't believe the ones

tha t say that the email is being traced, it just ain't so!) 

 

Some of the other emails to delete and not forward are:

 

1. The one that says something like, 'Send this email to 10 people and you'll

see something great run across your screen.'  Or sometimes they'll just tease

you by saying 'something really cut e will happen.'  IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!

(We're still seeing some of the same emails from 10 years ago!)  

 

2.  Don't let the bad luck ones scare you either, they get trashed. 

 

3.  Before you forward an 'Amber Alert', or a ' Virus Alert', or some of the

other emails floating around now-a-days, check them out before you forward

them.  Most of them are junk mail that's been circling for YEARS!  Just about

everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at

Snopes.  Just go to www. snopes.com.  It's really easy to find out if it's real

or not.  If it's not, don't pass it on.

So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses.

Finally, here's an idea!  Let's send this to everyone we know (but strip my

address off first, please).  This is something that should be forwarded, so do

it. p; Thanks

 

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