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URBAN LEGENDS & SPAM
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ARE YOU SICK AND
TIRED OF THOSE TELEMARKETERS? Here are a few things
you can try to stop them.....
The Direct Marketing Association is an industry
group that represents telemarketers and direct
mailers. It maintains lists of consumers who
don't want sales calls, mail or e-mails.
Telemarketers who are members of the DMA
and who subscribe to this list are supposed to
refrain from calling anyone on the list. It won't
stop all telemarketing calls to your home
though.
To put your name on the Telephone
Preference Service, mail a request with your
name and phone numbers to:
Telephone Preference Service Direct
Marketing Association
P. O. Box 9014
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9014
To remove your name from direct mailing lists:
mail your name, variations of your name, other
names of household members and your address to:
Mail Preference Service Direct Marketing
Association
P. O. Box 9014
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9014
You can also register online to receive fewer
unwanted e-mails.
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NOW ON WITH HOAXES, URBAN LEGENDS, SCAMS, CHAIN
LETTERS, & SPAM
All there is to know about hoaxes, urban legends,
scams, chain letters, & spam, and how to combat the use
of such. Also a good resource to learn to spot them
with examples of each.
Hoax
= False, deliberately
deceptive information |
UL = Urban Legend
– a popularly believed narrative, typically false
|
Rumor = Anecdotal claims
– may be true, false, or in between
|
Junk
= Flotsam and jetsam of the Net
|
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If you forward ALOT of emails, you'll want to check
this out.........
A FORWARDER'S 12 STEP PROGRAM
FEEL FREE TO PASS THIS SITE ON SO THAT
OTHER PEOPLE MAY LEARN ABOUT AND/OR LEARN TO VERIFY A
LETTER BEFORE BLINDLY FORWARDING IT TO EVERYONE AND
ANYONE PLUS THEIR GRANDMOTHER
no offense GRANDMAS
PAGE LAST UPDATED ON
12-19-04
Please use this link to send me mail reporting
any dead links or sites you feel should be
included on this
HOAXES,SCAMS,URBAN LEGENDS & SPAM
site and to share any comment you may have.
RAILBIRD
THANKS,
MARK
SCAM BUSTERS
INTERNET SCAMS:
Internet ScamBusters Helps You Protect Yourself
From Clever Scams -- Online and Offline...
- PURPORTAL.COM
- a GREAT search tool to determine whether or not a letter is a Hoax, Scam, or Urban Legend
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE....use this tool BEFORE passing on any questionable letter! Added 9-5-01
-
Break the Chain: Stop Junk E-Mail and Misinformation
Another good resource to recognize and stop
MISINFORMAATION and other JUNK MAIL
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Top Ten Dot Cons
- The FTC maintains a number of
websites to help consumers understand their rights and
to give information about Internet fraud. This site,
Top Ten Dot Cons, contains a wealth of articles and
information about online scam techniques and how to
avoid them
- EMAIL
ABUSE.ORG
- EmailAbuse.org is dedicated to
informing users of this potential abuse and providing
them with the tools to avoid becoming a victim and to
fight back at Email Abusers!
- Vmyths.com- Truth
About Computer Virus Myths & Hoaxes
- Added
8-03-00
- HOAX ON FIRE
- Where we set to flame rumor and
lies.
- Hoax, Myth,
Fraud, Chain Letter and Anti-Spam Sites
- Internet
-101.com
-
THE BEST CHAIN LETTER EVER
- this says it all in
a very straight forward manner that no one could
misunderstand....rated PG
- HOAX
BUSTERS
You are the XXXXXXXXXth visitor to the CIAC Internet
Hoax and Chain Letter pages since February 1995.
Interspersed among the junk mail and spam that fills
our Internet e-mail boxes are dire warnings about
devastating new viruses, Trojans that eat the heart out
of your system, and malicious...
- Scams
- a list of common scams, 10 pages
worth
-
0SPAM
- Easy to follow instructions in reporting
spam to the correct authorities BECOME A SPAM FIGHTER!
- REPORT SPAM
- here are some additional places to
report spam Plus follow the links for helpful and
informative sites CREDIT to TOM
-
What to do if you recieve SPAM
- another site
listing addies to report SPAM
Done by BLUE FOX
- Urban Legends and
Foklore
- become familiar with Email Hoaxes and
HALF TRUTHS
- C-Net Hoaxes
- comprehensive
list also includes links to CIAC and Minning Co.
Urban Legends
-
DR. SOLOMON'S
- every thing you need to know
about viruses
-
Nerd Herd
- use to verify bogus letters, learn the anatomy of a
chain letter & check virus hoaxes
-
Hoax information in alphabetical order
- "Easy to find" list of Hoaxes
- Abuse.Net/Com addresses
- Use to look up abuse
addresses for different domains to report Chain letters
and other offenses
- Intenic.Net
- This site does the same as previous site
-
JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST SPAM
- I know I am
-
Death of a Spammer
- A GREAT SITE by Paul Ericksen
also has links to other resources
- Chain Letters
- what they are, what they do,
and different forms chain letters take
PLEAE REPORT ALL CHAIN LETTERS TO
ABUSE@WEBTV.NET
AND/OR THE POSTMASTER OF THE DOMAIN THE LETTER CAME
FROM...CHAINLETTERS ARE ILLEGAL!!!
-
One of the best pages for urban legends
- they have a great search engine
- FREE
- Forum for Responsible and Ethical Email
-
ELECTRONIC PETITIONS
- how could they be bad...find out by clicking here
-
How To Defeat A Chain Letter
- also with other
resources
-
Real Life
- the results of an internet hoax
- One of the
earliest pages of Urban Legends on the web
- has an archive, what is an Urban Legend?, and more
- LIBRARY OF URBAN LEGENDS
-
Use search engine on top of page to find what you're
looking for.
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Don't spread that hoax
- kinda slow loading but it's worth it
-
An interesting page in the Urban Legend pages is this
one
- It includes responses that can be sent as a reply
if you receive an urban legend email. In many cases Bob
Rankin (of Tourbus) has researched a hoax, and provides
background information.
-
What Net4TV has to say about hoaxes etc
- Net4TV is a bimonthly newsletter written by WebTv
users for WebTv users.
-
VIRUS HOAXES
-
This page is considered the industry standard
information source for new virus hoaxes and false
alerts.
Page authored by
Mark L at
RAILBIRD@WEBTV.NET
Co-authored by Larry at
SUPERBSAINT@WEBTV.NET
And thank you to P2 at
Pennington2@netscape.net for additional
links to informative and helpful sites.
It would be totally indignant of me if I don't give
a VERY SPECIAL "THANK YOU" to Momma Nightowl at Lady-Chat-A-Lot@webtv.net
I thank you for all of your help in
making people aware of and how to use this site, for
your diligant use of this site to determine whether or
not a letter is a hoax, urban legend, chain letter or
some scam. Plus for the individual effort and the efforts of your chikadees in the WAR
against
SPAM