American court poses fine to spammer Atkinson |
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| 12/23/2009 9:35:25 AM | |
A man from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast has been fined $210K Australian to send billions of spam emails. Atkinson was fined $16 million US by the Federal Trade Commission earlier in December and $100K previously by a New Zealand court. The report says that 26-year-old Lance Thomas Atkinson sent the emails offering male enhancement or weight loss drugs and claiming the products were being distributed legally from within the United States. Atkinson was banned from sending spontaneous commercial emails for seven years by the federal court in Brisbane. Herald reports that the operation was capable of sending 10 billion emails per day, calling it the world’s largest spam operation. Justice Andrew Greenwood, in handing down the sentence, said that there was completly no doubt that Australians found the volume of unsolicited emails to be really irritating and annoying. In explaining the sentence, Greenwood also described the need for consistent updating of spam filters to fight the ever increasing amount of spam, although it is not clear whether he attributed this need directly to Atkinson’s activities. Australian authorities tracked more than 100K mails received by Australian residents back to Atkinson. The penalty assigned was reportedly on the lower end of the scale of available punishments, but the Justice described that Atkinson’s cooperation has a significant factor in reducing the fine. The other sources give the maximum fine possible as $2.5 million, with the final penalty measuring approximately 7.8 % value. Tag Clouds: share web host, Share web hosting, share website hosting, web hosting, Free Web Hosting, Unlimited Web Hosting, Reseller Web Hosting, VPS Web Hosting, free website templates, Web Hosting news, Web hosting FAQ, Web Hosting Tutorials, Web Hosting Glossary, SEO TOOLS |
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