FORWARDING EMAILS
Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% do NOT.
Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail?
Do you hate it?
Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses & names. Not to mention that some people never open Forwarded emails, so your message gets lost anyway. And did you know that merely receiving some viruses is enough for them to do their dirty work? That’s right, today’s virus-senders are so insidious they have found ways to infect your computer, even if you delete the email WITHOUT reading it!
And even though your computer runs all incoming email through a virus software program, the more times an email has been forwarded, the more junk it picks up, the more names that are added, and the harder it is for your virus, spyware and adware software to catch all the incoming garbage. No software is perfect!
As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every e-mail address that has come across their computer.
Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit.
That’s right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel!
How do you stop it? Well, there are two easy solutions:-
Solution 1
Before forwarding an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message.
That’s right, DELETE them.
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, then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message.
If you don’t click on “Forward” first, you won’t be able to edit the message.
Or alternatively -
If you want to forward something “cut” and “paste” required text/ HTML`s–onto a “new” message and then send that to your selected addressees.
Solution 2
Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: columns for adding e-mail address.
Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) column for listing the e-mail addresses.
This is the way that people you send to only see their own e-mail 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.
So please, in the future, let’s stop the junk mail in its tracks and the viruses!
I have received the following information from Angie Sanchez which enhances, endorses and reinforces the information given above:-
PLEASE READ THIS. FOLLOW THE SUGGESTIONS, ESPECIALLY WHEN FORWARD SOMETHING.
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.
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He wrote:
By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with snopes.com and/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 “your prayers will be answered” — 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 profitable purposes.
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 STOP adding 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!
AND don’t forget to get rid of ALL these forwarded addresses!!!
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.
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