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Aussie Spammer Faces Millions in Fines
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."
I think I read somewhere that like 1 in 10 people have responded to spam, so perhaps it's worth more than you give it credit for.
[BTW: My verification words is "ASSFOKR" Say it out loud.]
FTFA:
The Spam Act carries penalties of up to AU$220,000 per day for first-time corporate offenders and up to AU$1.1 million per day for repeat offenders.
So he'd have to make AU$1.1mln per day to break even. I don't think even the most successful spammer could earn that much.
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
I think the going flat rate for spamming is like $0.002 for each mail sent. There are different ways to purchase your campaign but as far as flat rates go...that's about accurate. So 56,000,000 * .002 = $112,000.00. So that particular batch of campaigns didn't make his fine money. But he could have designed his campaigns to get bonuses for click throughs and stuff like that.
You'll have that sometimes...
No, we do not have the death penalty.
Generally speaking, were not self-righteous enough to believe we hold absolute truth which gives us the right to take the right to take the life of another.
And considering our convict heritage, an understanding and empathy towards the potential falability of the law is not supprising.
So he'd have to make AU$1.1mln per day to break even.
To put that into perspective, I'll translate that into other prominent currencies: 1,100,000 AUD == 844,000 USD == 699,000 EUR == 463,000 GBP == 1,041,000 CAD