How Big is YOUR Signature?

Not your signature that you might use to sign a check or a job application. I'm talking about the lines that you can add automatically to the bottom of your emails. People will usually put their name, company, contact info, website or some kind of combination thereof. Some of you in the bureaucratic corporate world might even have a fax #, division of your company, title, office #, direct #, cell #, etc.

If someone has your cell and direct number, do they even care what your office number is? Just wondering.

Some people even use the signature to promote a business they're growing or fundraising effort they are supporting. I used the second option when I was fundraising for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. It actually worked pretty well. I got quite a few donations from people that didn't receive any marketing emails. The only way they could have known about it was because of my email signature.

However some people take the signature to a whole new level. I just received an email from someone with the following signature added to the end of an email (I'm keeping their information confidential since they don't know I'm posting this. It wasn't spam, otherwise I wouldn't care):


[Their name is here]
[company name is here]
[work address]
[work address]
[work number]
[fax number]
[cell number]
[email address]

OK, no big suprises. Pretty standard signature.....but then...below this...

***********************************************************************************

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE:
This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be protected by legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by returning it to the sender and delete this copy from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.


IRS CIRCULAR 230 NOTICE: Recent revisions to IRS Circular 230 require that certain steps be taken by a tax advisor before his or her written tax advice may be relied upon to avoid IRS penalties. Those steps, which generally are time-consuming and result in substantial additional legal fees, were not undertaken in connection with any tax advice which may appear in this communication. Accordingly, this communication was not written or intended by the sender or their company, to be used, and cannot be used, by any taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding tax penalties that may be imposed. Further, any written statement contained in this communication relating to a federal tax transaction or matter may not be used by any person to support the promotion or marketing of, or to recommend, any federal tax transaction or matter addressed in this communication.


some company LLC
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What's the big idea? It's ok for most of the world to send regular emails with regular signatures but I guess some people need to have an 8 page legalese signature. I'm surprised I didn't have to sign something and fax it to their office before being able to just open the email.

So now I'm going to start paying attention. If anyone sees an even bigger signature than this send it to me and I'll post it...hopefully without breaking any sort of law or gigantic signature addendum.

Cyrus
blogging4burgers.blogspot.com

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IRS CIRCULAR 230 NOTICE: Recent revisions to IRS Circular 230 require that certain steps be taken by a tax advisor before his or her written tax advice may be relied upon to avoid IRS penalties. Who knows what any of this means. Do you really think any normal person is going to have a f***king clue as to what the IRS Circular 230 notice is? Much less the recent revisions! Accordingly, this communication was not written or intended by the sender or their company, to be used, and cannot be used, by any taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding tax penalties that may be imposed. However if you use this communication for other illegal activities that is probably still no ok. Further (because you know this signature isn't done yet) any written statement contained in this communication relating to a federal tax transaction or matter may not be used by any person to support the promotion or marketing of, or to recommend, any federal tax transaction or matter addressed in this communication. So pay your stupid taxes already and stop trying to use this communication aka blog to promote your tax evasion! You got all that! Good.