Spammers Fined A$5.5 million

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 27, 2006 @01:11AM 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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Coming up next... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-27 01:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Coming up next: Spammer gets US court to order australia to stop interfering with his business, and tries to get them to order Icann to remove the .au TLD.
Re:Is it enough? by uwnav · 2006-10-27 01:26 · Score: 4, Funny

YES! Jail! and the next time I seen them damn kids dropping flyers on my front porch.. I'll be waiting with my shotgun. Spam is annoying for me just as it is for the next person, but you still have to carry those flyers from the mailbox to the recycling bin (or put a recycling bin at my front door saying "Yes Flyers Please!") but that'd hardly the point.. I think jail-time would be somewhat extreme
I've been on the internet too long by Megaweapon · 2006-10-27 01:30 · Score: 2, Funny

I sort of read that "Fined A$$ Million" ala fined out the ass... *sigh*

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Australian spammers by krell · 2006-10-27 01:34 · Score: 5, Funny

A fine for these guys is too easy. They should serve some sort of hard time, like in a prison or penal colony. Or imagine exiling them to a whole continent set aside to imprison them.... Oh wait.

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1. Re:Australian spammers by Spacejock · 2006-10-27 02:06 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  like in a prison or penal colony
  
  Dude, this is Australia ...
  
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2. Re:Australian spammers by 1u3hr · 2006-10-27 02:08 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  A fine for these guys is too easy. They should serve some sort of hard time, like in a prison or penal colony.
  Oh, hilarious. An American making prison colony jokes about Australia. For us, that was 150 years ago. For you, it's Guantanamo Bay.
Hey, here's an idea.... by lottameez · 2006-10-27 01:35 · Score: 2, Funny

Can someone please post his email? I'd like to send him some great money saving offers.

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Re:NANI?! by Donniedarkness · 2006-10-27 01:40 · Score: 2, Funny

Just in case someone doesn't know, "nani" is Japanese for "what".
And no, your pen15 will never get larger. You're a slashdotter who throws Japanese into sentences at random. It's not even going to matter. Get used to it.

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Re:The gavel falls by Arancaytar · 2006-10-27 01:55 · Score: 5, Funny

> I wonder if he can pay the fine in e-mail promotion services? "c0ur1 dec1s1ons & 1njunct10n5! 100% gu4rant33d!"
Re:There's no apostrophe in its when it's possessi by enigma9 · 2006-10-27 01:57 · Score: 3, Funny

You are assuming they went to High School in the first place :-)

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Re:Why there are not box stuffing bots? by Hoi+Polloi · 2006-10-27 02:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Hello, I'm the son of General Nutumbo (retired) of the Nigerian Army. He was very happy to find out that thousands of honest Americans were willing to help him move his $43 million dollar oil renvenues out of the National Bank of Nigeria with their financial help. Now I find out it was all a trick. Shame on you!

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That headline by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-27 02:27 · Score: 1, Funny

To me it looks like an A$5 load of cash and then some.