WoW! Two entries from me in one day... I must be on a flipping roll! Well, after I made my little pet entry, I checked my email and what did I have there today?? Spam? Of course... a day without Spam is like a day without... erm SPAM! But that's not my gripe today. My gripe is about HOW I possibly got that stoopid spam.
I had a forwarded email from someone I know... one of those one's that claims AOL and Microsuck were tracking the email and were going to pay me billions of dollars if I forwarded it to all of the ppl on my list. Riiiight.... if I believed that I would own the Brooklyn Bridge and some swampland in Poland by now.
But anyways, their first mistake was thinking that I had anyone in my address book to forward it to, seeing as I am basically anti-social and don't have more than 5 ppl in my address book, most of which I don't bother sending email to. Much like my journal here, I don't send email unless I have something to say.
Their second mistake was believing that stoopid email in the first place. As if Bill Gates got rich by giving his money away. Get flipping real, ppl. He could care less about tracking emails... he doesn't need to.... he has like the number one most used crap in the cyberworld making him rich on a daily basis. He doesn't need to waste time or money tracking some stoopid email and giving his money away to morons nor would he bother.
Stoopid emails such as these are just another form of Phishing where someone sends out something so ludicrous just to get ppl to forward it and forward it and forward it.
As it gets forwarded to zillions of other ppl, it collects email addresses, which you can see as you scroll through the email. I now have the email addies of a lot of military ppl just from that one stoopid forward. Whoopie... I could spam the soldiers to death if I wanted to, or sign them up for all kinds of crap online, if I were ebil that is. ninja
Those email addresses are later sold by whomever collects them off of emails like that one to ppl who send out spam and junkmail. By forwarding this untrue crap to your friends list, you just gave out their email addresses to Gawd knows who, and I am sure they won't appreciate the garbage and crap emails that they get because of it.
The only person making any money here is the one who sells these email addresses to advertisers. They can get from 3 cents to a buck per valid, working email address they sell to those advertisers and they don't just sell their list to one, they sell to as many as they can find!! Yeah, sucks to be you right now, doesn't it?? You pissed off loads of your friends and aren't gonna get a penny from Bill Gates... bummer.
If you absolutely must send your friends crap like that because you are a moron who thinks you are doing them or yourself a favour, at least do your forwards the smart way and use the blind carbon copy option. On your email you are about to forward, just click TOOLS> SELECT RECIPIENTS and then pick the names and addresses you want to send it to and put them in the BCC box instead of the first or second (To: or CC smile boxes. At least the blind carbon copy will hide the addresses of the ppl you sent this to. If you have to have at least one email address in the TO: box for it to send then send it back to yourself by putting your OWN address there... after all, we already know your email address is being circulated by the fact you got the stoopid email in the first place.
Some ppl really hate having this crap come to their email box and being placed on mass forwards.... I am one of those ppl. I am sure at least a few of your friends probably are too. If not, they should be. YOU should be.
If you MUST send forwards to your friends becuz they are funny or cute or whatever, do the internet world and your friends a favour and practice safe forwarding!!
Til next time, happy emailing!
Regardz,
Mysteh
Mysteh Community Member 
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