Rachael Baby Scam

[Ioman]

I had a site reader e-mail me this morning asking if this is a scam. What do you guys think?

Of course it is.

[senoryoshio]

Has there ever been an 'email tracking' thing ever worked? Plus, a quick Google Image Search turned up that picture in several locations.....People like babies, myself included, but how does a company track email forwards.

[Ioman]

They can't. There is no way to do it. Its funny how people fall for these things.

[llbbl]

No company anywhere has agreed to funding something based on how many people you can spam the letter too.

[llbbl]

Well a reputable company at least...

[llbbl]

Has there ever been an 'email tracking' thing ever worked? Plus, a quick Google Image Search turned up that picture in several locations.....People like babies, myself included, but how does a company track email forwards.


If the image is hosted remotely they could trak how many people connect to their machine to download the image via your IP address.

[senoryoshio]

If the image is hosted remotely they could trak how many people connect to their machine to download the image via your IP address.
If they did it that way, and I know you're not saying they are, the company sponsoring the deal would be scammed quite easily.

[Archon]

never even bother with that stuff, seriously now

[dang]

the message expressly says emails are tracked. there is no way to do this. this comes from the oldes spammail forward email, where they said bill gates was testing out a new email program, and for participating you would get $1000 or something like that. So ridiculous.

[ECA]

If you look into the Scource info, if its forwarded, it contains ALL the info, to each person...
this can be taken out and used for adverts....Its a scam...

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STARTED HERE.
<20041001091235.7CEA03E00@xprdmailfe8.nwk.excite.co m>
SENt to her..
X-Sender: estom@excite.com
Forwarded HERE:
To: PACALI@aol.com, Send an Instant Message kcc_hnr2001@yahoo.com, Send an Instant Message hjeanp1@yahoo.com, vic6935@hotmail.com, edwardcharlesash@yahoo.com, Send an Instant Message agirl_n4boyz@yahoo.com, Send an Instant Message drpierce3102@yahoo.com, michin68@hotmail.com, drservice@comcast.net, dvsjetta457@aol.com

I have seen this reach PAGES...

[ECA]

List the header info on that...take a look.

[llbbl]

Hey ECA u might not want to post all those email addresses to this thread you know.

Also just because all that info of where the email has been is in the header of each email, doesn't mean that its accurate since header info can easily be changed and emails can be spoofed, IP addresses don't always point to the right person and people have more than one email address.

If they want to keep track of who its sent to, can you imagine the thousands to hundred of thousands of copies of the same email that have different header info and the programming task requried to corroberate all this info into one consise list? Also in order for all the data to be "gathered" if you will, people would have to send copies of that email out to the company of where it supposedly originated from.

Now how probable is that?