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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:Is it enough? by AoT · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm just happy that laws such as these have reduced the amount of spam I recieve.

    Oh, wait.

    Damnit, they haven't.

    Maybe someone needs to starts DOSing the sites that are advertised for in spam, then people would be afraid to go to spammers for advertising.

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