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E-Mail Tracker Programs -- very interesting and a must read!
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Tips
for Handling Telemarketers
Three Little Words That Work!!
(1)The three little words are:
'Hold On, Please...'
Saying this, while putting down your phone
and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each
telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales
would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone,
you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has
efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate
telephone soliciting..
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other
end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes
phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real'
sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no
one there, is to immediately start hitting your
# button on the phone, 6 or 7 times as
quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the
call, and it kicks your number out of their system.. Gosh, what a shame
not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these
'ads' with your payment.
Let the sending
companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for
everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do
not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right?
It costs them
more than the regular 44 cents postage, 'IF' and when they receive them
back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage
was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the
weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and
put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney 's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send
an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza
coupon to Citibank.
If you
didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank
application back!
If you want
to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send
them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them
guessing! It still costs them 44 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their
own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let
them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're
paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are
saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why
they need to increase postage costs again.
You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work I have been doing this
for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
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Rogue security software
(or rogueware) is a form of computer malware that
deceives or misleads users into paying for the fake or simulated removal
of malware, or that installs other malware. Rogue security software, in
recent years (2008–2011), has become a growing and
serious security threat
in desktop computing.
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computers are being sold anti-virus software unnecessarily, according to a
new study.
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Scams and Alert 
