Hi TCILover, welcome to the forums!
@TCILover wrote: Hi, My guess is in the first or second posting it says it is legal because you are selling/creating a mailing list
I'd like to clarify a little. The place where you're seeing that it says that "it's legal" is in the text of the illegitimate posting. We've determined that it is not legitimate, so it's important to take all of the claims within that pasted message with several grains of salt.
If you follow the first link in my first response on this thread, you'll see that it leads to the website for the Federal Trade Commission, and some information about Chain Letter Scams, including their illegality. Here's that link again:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt075.shtm
I hope this helps!
Olivia
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