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Aussie Spammer Faces Millions in Fines

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-bills dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An alleged Australian spammer could face millions in fines if he's found guilty of breaking the country's anti-spam laws, reports ZDNet. The Australian Communications Authority alleges that Wayne Mansfield and his company, Clarity 1, sent at least 56 million commercial e-mails in the 12 months after the Spam Act was enacted in April 2004."

3 of 173 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Glad by Aussie · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm glad that I don't live in Austrailia.

    I'm glad too.

  2. Re:Death! by tobiasly · · Score: 5, Funny
    Anyone know if there's a death penalty in Australia?

    Please list suitable tortures for spammers.

    Have you people heard of the notion of "innocent until proven guilty"? It says an alleged Australian spammer. Let's make sure he really is Australian before we start jumping to conclusions.

  3. Re:Theres some email in my spam by Bvardi · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Anyone who sends bulk spam emails should be rounded up and shot. Well, maybe publicly humiliated first and then shot.

    Slowly."

    It's rather difficult to shoot someone slowly - pretty much it works like this....

    Not shot.... Not shot..... Not shot..... *BANG*
    Shot.

    I suppose you could push the bullet in with some kind of stick if you were particularly vicious and/or desiring to save on gunpowder.....