By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with snopes.com
and truthorfiction.com
for determining whether information received is just that: true, false, fact or
fiction. Both are excellent sites.
Following is some good information about spam emails, sales calls and
junk mail:
Any time you see an email or FaceBook posting that says
"forward this on/share”, "sign this petition”, “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. You have an email address associated with your
FaceBook page – they’re getting that.
Even when you get emails or see posts that demand you
send them on if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus --- that is email tracking, and
they are playing on your 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!
Ever notice that some of those “shared” pictures on
FaceBook come from sites with offensive language in the title? If you see something you like – right click
on the image, save it to your computer and repost it from there. Voila!
No more offensive link!
You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you
are NOT – you are supporting spammers, who are getting rich! Otherwise, why would they keep doing it?!? You could very well be exposed to a virus,
which has forced many of us to have to change passwords and take other
measures.
Tired of telemarketers?
Try this:
If you actually get a real person, tell them, “Hold on, please...”
and then put the phone down – DON’T hang up.
This will 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's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you
know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently
completed its task.
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.
To stop these calls, once you discover that no one is
there, immediately start hitting the ‘#’ 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!!!
Sick of Junk Mail?
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. Only if it comes with
the prepaid envelope, though.
When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for
everything from credit cards to second mortgages and similar type junk, do not
throw away the return envelope. Most of
these come with postage-paid return envelopes and it costs them more than regular
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.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American
Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't have anything to send,
then just send them their blank application back! You will be making revenue for the Postal
Service and we need that! 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 60 cents. I stuff mine with the
ads that come with the Sunday paper. (Weighs more and uses more postage.)
The banks and credit card companies are
currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail but let’s 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!
One of Dad's favorite snacks is canned sardines and crackers. Whenever we asked for a snack, that was always his first suggestion. You know, like answering a kid who wants to know what they're having for dinner with, "Liver and onions." YECH!
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