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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. Is it enough? by jmagar.com · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I wonder if he's made enough money from the spam to cover this fine. It could turn out that this just becomes the cost of doing business...

    I prefer to see jail time for these guys.

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  2. Coming up next... by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  3. Australian spammers by krell · · 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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  4. Re:The gavel falls by Arancaytar · · Score: 5, Funny

    > I wonder if he can pay the fine in e-mail promotion services? "c0ur1 dec1s1ons & 1njunct10n5! 100% gu4rant33d!"