Archive for October, 2009

Australia not in Top 10 worst spam origin countries, but home to #6 spammer

Daily updates of the independent spam-tracking organisation, The Spamhaus Project, are like a “Who’s Who?” in world economy and industrial power.
The United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and Japan. Yes, they are all there. Except Australia.
How Australia has been able to elude the Top 10 list is not due to its relatively smaller population [...]

Million dollar penalties issued in Australia’s first SMS spam case

In a landmark decision last 23 October, the Federal Court in Brisbane imposed $15.75 million in penalties for contraventions of the Spam Act 2003.
The decision was made against Mobilegate Ltd and Winning Bid Pty Ltd following the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s first court action taken against unsolicited SMS messages.
‘This is a significant outcome for [...]

MoneyGram ordered to pay $18m for fraud-related cases of agents

MoneyGram International, Inc., the second-largest money transfer service in the United States, will pay $18 million in consumer redress to settle FTC charges that the company allowed its money transfer system to be used by fraudulent telemarketers to bilk U.S. consumers out of tens of millions of dollars.
MoneyGram also will be required to implement [...]