The Truth About Email Petitions

I had mentioned this once before several months ago, but this story is important enough to bear repeating.

And besides, Carrie has a different source.

Just a word to the wise. Email petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other municipality.
To be acceptable, petitions must have a hand signed signature and full address. Almost all the email that asks you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to the hoax in Florida involving cards, a sick child and a record. That mass letter years ago had asked people to send business cards to the child in Florida in order to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards received. All it was, and all that these other emails are designed to do, is to collect names and tracking info (cookies) for tele-marketers and spammers to validate active email accounts for their own purposes. Any time you receive an email that tells you to "forward it on to 10 of your friends", "sign this petition", or "you'll receive good luck if", etc., it contains either an email tracking app attached that relays the cookie and email info of those folks you forward it to and/or the original host sender is receiving a blind copy each time it is forwarded to get lists of "active" emails to use in spam emails or sell to others that do. Please explain this to others and you will be providing a good service to your friends and will be rewarded by not getting 30,000 spam emails in the future. Give everybody a break by not forwarding all those petitions and return to sender emails, etc. The best thing to do with this type of email is delete them immediately.

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