October 2008

Dear Friends:

This summer I had a terrible computer crash. It has taken months to fix the issues that resulted. Although I’m not quite up and running, but just up and hobbling, I wanted to pass on this excellent and helpful information about forwarding emails.

With the help of some websites and a little research, I’d like all my family, friends and students to know the best way to forward emails. It ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails so please take the time to read it.

So here goes, it’s worth the read….

1. 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 and names.
2. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for someone to get a virus. His or her computer can send that virus to every E-mail address that has come across his computer.
3. This list that is collected allows someone to 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.

If you haven’t already done this, here’s what we are told will stop this collection of valuable email addresses:

1. When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message(at the top). 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 on "Forward" first, you won't be able to edit the message at all.
2. Often when I want to send on an interesting email, I simply copy that portion I want to send and paste the content into a new email with a new subject and all the email address in the BCC section.
3. Whether you forward or cut and paste to send on an email to more than one person, Do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses of others. Instead, always use the BCC:(blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses and leave the “TO” field blank. This is the way the people you send to will 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.
4. Remove any "FW :" and re-name the subject.
5. ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading Ever get those e-mails 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 e-mails just to see what you sent.
6. About petitions that have you to add your name and address and then tell you 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 email addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. DO NOT put your email address on any petition.
7. More About supporting petitions: Rather than sign the list, send 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 email address on a petition. (And don't believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, we are told it isn’t so!)
8. About emails that say, "Send this email to 10 people…etc. This is a device to gain lists of emails. So if you do pass them along, do so without addresses showing.
9. About the “bad luck ones” – Just more list gathering.
10. About 'Amber Alert' , or 'Virus Alert', etc. check them out before you forward them.

Here are some website references about email scams and authenticating email information. Obviously I am not an expert on this but when I did a search the following websites keep popping up. There are many more to be sure, but these will give you a start to your own investigation:

1. If you want to question the authenticity of a statement, an email, an opinion, before you pass it on, then go to Snopes. According to Wikipedia, “Snopes, also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a web site that is the most widely-known resource for validating or debunking urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other such stories of uncertain or questionable origin in popular culture. Snopes is run by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a California couple who met on the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup. The Mikkelsons also founded the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society, and were credited as the owners of the site until 2005. The site is organized according to topic and includes a message board where questionable stories and pictures may be posted.”
2. This website tells you about software that tracks email addresses: http://find-emails.qarchive.org
3. To learn more about email etiquette visit: http://www.emailreplies.com/
4. Quick answers about email: www.freefind.com/library/ref/faq/email.html
5. Scamdex Email Scam, Internet Fraud, Identity Theft & Phishing Resource. Scamdex aims to educate and inform: www.scamdex.com
6. How to Avoid e-mail scams by Microsoft: Microsoft/AOL E-Mail Tracking
7. And when all else fails, try the FBI and get e-mail updates when new scams and warnings are posted there. If you have received a scam e-mail notify the IC3 by filing a complaint at www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm.
8. Internet Scams, Identity Theft, and Urban Legends: http://www.scambusters.org/
9. How to Avoid Internet Fraud: http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/cyberfraud.htm

Thanks for reading and hopefully no one we know personally will crash their computers from junk mail we forward. God bless. OM

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