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Protecting Others from Junk mail
Don't Be a Junk mail Junkie
Forward E-mail with Courtesy

Verify the Source

I recently received an e-mail about Walmart that I thought was worth sharing. Immediately, I forwarded the e-mail to a few friends for their information. One friend responded with some great advice that went something like this:

"This sounds legit. Go Walmart! The only question I have is - how have you verified this e-mail? I see so many e-mails from friends, which are forwarded or replied to blindly without verification. I think of several I've seen asking for prayer support for someone who was healed several years before - but the e-mail keeps circulating the globe. Based on this, I've made it my personal policy to stop responding to 'email solicitations' unless the originator (you in this case) can show a good source to the story."

One particular type of e-mail comes to mind. Make money if you forward this e-mail to a certain number of people. Folks, this is a get-rich-quick scheme that has yet to work, and in reality, serves as a nesting ground for gathering e-mail addresses. Soon these addresses find themselves in the hands of malicious, and normally pornographic, users who WILL bombard your e-mail with junk. With over 1600 known sites that scam people, verify the source first, and send the person who sent that e-mail
a sample letter explaining how to forward email.

For more information on website scams see ZDNet's article by clicking here or going to
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_4605.html

So, forward e-mail with caution, and do the research to verify the source.

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Section 1

Protection from
Junk Mail

Section 2

Protecting Others
from Junk Mail

Verify the Source

Do Not Forward
Copy and Paste

Use the BCC
for Many Recipients

Section 3

Protection
from Viruses