Spam news and updates
I recently got two certificates (which look like those stock or debenture certificates of old) in my PO box from Opportunities Unlimited Publications telling me I had won AUD15,000. All I have to is to answer a qualifying no-brainer question like – “If the Director of Prize Releases contacted You with a NOTICE OF AWARD [...]
Useless incoming fax messages may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to the Australian Communications and Media Authority. For a while fax communication was integral part of our business operation. We have a dedicated phone line to send and receive fax messages. The facility was great, communication was definitely faster than snail mails, [...]
Up to now, we still see people displaying their email addresses in their blog posts. And these include columnists of major news sites which we find very disappointing. The practice of displaying email addresses in web pages is an open invitation to spammers who use spambots which crawl on webpages to harvest anything that looks [...]
The Spamhaus Project, an international spam monitoring and tracking organisation, has issued a damning report on the world’s top 10 worst internet service providers (ISPs). The report listed Verizon.com as number 5. Verizon in its news release last 11 August announced that is the “highest-ranked U.S.-based telecommunications company” in ethical ranking based on study by [...]
I was surprised to read yesterday that the Commonwealth Securities Limited (CommSec) was complained against by customers for sending emails after the customers had withdrawn their consent, and that the email campaigns of CommSec did not provide an option to unsubscribe. I said “surprised” because I have known the company for many years now ~ [...]
In January this year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) issued infringement notices to the value of $110,000 to Optus Networks for allegedly sending electronic messages without accurate sender identification in contravention of the Spam Act 2003. Seven months later, the ACMA found SmartyHost guilty of breaching the Spam Act for continuing to send [...]
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