Business Services Industry
Spammer's $5.5m fine a warning: watchdog.
Australasian Business Intelligence, October, 2006
Byline: Daniel Emerson and Neale Prior
Oct 29, 2006 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Wayne Mansfield and his enterprise Clarity1 have been fined a combined $A5.5m by the Federal Court of Australia. The Australian Communications & Media Authority had brought charges relating to breaches of the Spam Act, after Clarity1 was found to have sent over 213 million separate pieces of unsolicited electronic marketing messages. The Internet Industry Association says while the penalty certainly is being used by the regulator to make an example of the offender, the crackdown on junk email is to be applauded. Mansfield is likely to be bankrupted by the judgment, while his Business Seminars Australia already went into liquidation in 2004 with debts of over...
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