Truth about petitions
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I'm sending this as an FYI for those who get those email petitions and wonder if you should add your name and send on. Email petitions are NOT acceptable to the US Congress, President or any municipality nor are they legally acceptable in Canada. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address. Almost all the email that asks 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 this other email is designed to get names and "cookie" tracking info for tele-marketers and spammers to validate active email accounts for their own purposes. Any time you see an email that says forward this on to "10" of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get good luck, etc., it has either an email tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails of those folks you forward to or the original host sender is getting a copy each time it is forwarded and then is able to get lists of "active" emails to use in spam emails or sell to others that do. 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 even though they try to make you feel guilty if you don't forward them immediately !!! Click below to check it out with Truth or Fiction & Snopes.