The Australian Communications and Media Authority is ramping up its fight against computer virus telemarketers who try to convince a consumer that their computer has a virus they can remove for a fee, announced ACMA. “In the first three months of 2011, nearly half of all complaints about telemarketing calls made to numbers on the [...]
Photo attached spam
August 7, 2010 By 3 Comments
In our earlier post, we reported about “shortened url links” spam. Another form of “shortened” spam has been flooding our mailbox during the last few days. These are the emails with subject “Your private photo attached” — with attached zip files. No, we don’t know what’s on those zip files. We really don’t care even [...]
International telecommunications training program in Melbourne
November 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For the first time, senior representatives from regulatory agencies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and the Republic of Korea will attend and present at this year’s Australian Communications and Media Authority/International Telecommunication Union (ITU) International Training Program. Chris Chapman, Chairman of the ACMA, and Dr Eun-Ju Kim, Head of the ITU Regional Office for Asia and [...]
A big year for Australia against spam
November 18, 2009 By 3 Comments
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 [...]
Are Internet Service Providers the key to the world’s fight against spam?
September 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
In its latest compilation of the world’s 10 worst spammers, Spamhaus reported that spam continues to plague the Internet because “a small number of large Internet Service Providers sell service knowingly to professional spammers for profit, or do nothing to prevent spammers operating from their networks.” Although all networks claim to be anti-spam, Spamhaus continued, [...]
Sending emails to addresses with request for opt-out is an offence
August 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
SmartyHost, a business division of MYOB Australia, was found guilty of breaching the Spam Act 2003 for continuing to send commercial electronic messages in the form of emails to people who had already requested to be taken off its mailing list. The investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) established that these unsubscribe [...]
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