SpamCop Reporting Accounts
- Free Reporting Service Users:
- Paid Reporting (Premuim) / (Fuel) Service Members:
- A premium account gives you access to more features on SpamCop.net than are available to free reporting users. These features include:
- No advertising or delay (nag) screens;
- Access to the database to check reports you have sent in the past 30 days;
- Access to the database to check the history of any IP address or URL for the past 90 days; It does not provide any details or totals, but it does provide a list of the dates, reportid, and subjects of each spam that has been reported(source)∞.
- The option to appeal a website/URL issue in parsed spam that you find has been incorrectly reported as 'closed' or an innocent bystander
- Cost for an upgraded account is as little as $2.00 for one megabyte of reporting fuel. If you purchase more than two megabytes, the cost is $1.00 per megabyte (i.e. $25.00 for 25MB). These purchases are known as "fuel".
- Fuel is consumed each time you parse a message through your premium SpamCop.net account. Each byte in the message will consume one byte of fuel. While the paid reporting only system is still relatively new, early estimates are that 15 MB of fuel will last most users two years. (This was written back in 1998, long before the spammers went wild!)
- To upgrade to a premium SpamCop.net account, you must first sign up for and verify a free account. Then, from your SpamCop.net access page, simply click on the "Preferences" link and "Add Fuel" to your account. The "Add fuel to your account" link also appears near the top of the "Report Spam" Screen, just below Your average reporting time∞ listing.
- As long as there is fuel in your account you will not be nagged by ads or the delay screens. If you run out of fuel, your account will automatically revert to a free user account.
- SpamCop may fine, suspend or terminate the accounts of paid members who violate the rules.
Note: (Flat rate) Mail Service Subscribers are considered paid reporters and have access to all the features available to those with a separate paid reporting account.
- (Flat rate) Mail Service Subscribers:
- Tired of spam? For several years, SpamCop.net∞ has been the #1 tool on the internet for reporting spammers to the ISP's they use to send their email and host their websites. Now, we're giving individuals, companies, and ISP's the power to take control of their email by leveraging the experience we have accumulated, along with the largest database of in-progress spam around, to filter out spam. Finally, you can read your email again without being accosted for advertisements for gambling, pyramid scams, and pornography. For more information, please see Welcome to the SpamCop Email System∞
- SpamCop will revoke access to the reporting service, attached to their SpamCop Email Account, for subscribers to the flat rate mail system who break reporting rules. Subscriber's use of the mail service will be unaffected, except that they will no longer be able to access the attached reporting system.
- Mail Service Subscribers have a reporting account attached to their mail account that has all the features of a paid reporting account plus some additional reporting features that are part of the VER interface, which includes Quick Reporting without the need to request special access.
Users should consult the
Where to get Help page if they have any question about SpamCop.net policy. If in doubt, users should ask before acting. We do not want to take discliplinary action against our users.
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