[SC-Help] Spamcop can't process this.

[tedd]

Hi:

I received a SPAM and I tried to report it to SPAMCOP (yes, I included
the header) but, SPAMCOP rejected the spam and reported that it couldn't
be processed.

So I tried to report the incident to this newsgroup to find out why. In
doing so, I also included the spam as an attachment because I have seen
other posts stating they had problems with spamcop and in every
instance, the replies asked for the header information.

Okay, so now I expected that I would have at least one answer to my
question. However, to my surprise, I received the following email (at
the end of this post).

It sounds like I am being accused of sending a chain letter. What's up
with that? Can anyone explain what's happening and why?

Many thanks and I hope that I'm not being accused of anything.

tedd

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SpamCop - Report spam:
http://members.spamcop.net/sc?action=report&id=4892483

I have canceled one or more of your posts (sample appended below) because
it appears to be a "Make Money Fast" chain letter, which are considered
to be 'cancel-on-sight' for two reasons:

  1. They have been posted an excessive number of times.  "Make Money
  Fast" chain letters have been posted millions of times with scant
  variation and are a terrible nuisance when searching for useful
  information on the net.  Also, these posts take up considerable space
  on the news servers of the world and represent a needless waste of
  network bandwidth worldwide.

  2. The scheme that they describe is illegal in many countries.
  (Actually, I do not know of any country in which it is legal.)
  For example, the following document describes one of the statutes
  applicable in the United States of America:

    http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm

In addition, posting chain letters of any sort to Usenet usually
violates the acceptable use agreement between you and your network
service provider.

Some other informative pages about "Make Money Fast," including references
to laws applicable outside the U.S.A., are at:

    http://www.stopspam.org/usenet/mmf/
    http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/chainalrt.htm
    http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/chain-letters.html
    http://ga.to/mmf/ http://www.wco.com/~rteeter/pyramid.html

Most chain letters claim that they are perfectly legal and that they
are not actually chain letters.  Many claim to be legal because there
is a "service" performed, such as exchanging mailing lists, recipes,
or reports on making money.  All of these claims are false, as the
www.usps.gov site cited above indicates.

Please note that it is possible that someone has forged your name on a
posted chain letter.  If this is the case, you should contact your network
service provider and ask them to track down the person responsible.

It is also possible that my chain letter detector has made a mistake
and canceled your post in error.  If this happens, please let me know
immediately.  This is probably the case if you have posted a follow-up
article to someone else's chain letter and have included an entire chain
letter in it, or if you have posted a parody of a chain letter.

If you have any doubt as to the truth of the preceding, please discuss
it with the staff of your network service provider.

J. Porter Clark <jpc>

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