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Spammers Fined A$5.5 million

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-lot-of-canned-pork dept.

Mick Bailey writes "A Perth company and it's director have been issued a A$5.5 million (approx. US$4 million) fine for breaching anti-spam laws. Australian IT watchers may be familiar with the director, Robert Mansfield — he's been personally fined A$1 million for the offenses. The Company, Clarity1, sent 280 million unsolicited emails of which 74 million hit mailboxes between 4/2004 and 4/2006."

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  1. Re:Australian spammers by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How much is A$6M? Is it enough to buy a couple candy bars?

  2. Not As Bad As It Sounds by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is not as bad as it sounds. After all, these are those puny Australian dollars, and not real Dollars.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."