| (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Australian operator of an Internet marketing company faces the federal court next month on allegations he sent millions of unsolicited bulk emails. Wayne Mansfield and his company Clarity 1 allegedly sent at least 56 million commercial emails, most of them unsolicited, in the 12 months after the Spam Act was passed in April 2004, according to the Australian Communications Authority.
The ACA also claims the company "harvested" email addresses for spamming purposes, using a network of global servers to send the emails. The ACA has appealed for an interim injunction against Clarity 1 before the court hearing in his native Perth on July 20.
Mansfield, who has previously been accused of spamming, was warned several times before the ACA finally raided his company premises in April. In 2002, he unsuccessfully tried to sue anti-spam activist Joey McNicol for publishing the IP addresses of T3 Direct, a company that Mansfield owned, claiming that McNicol's actions blacklisted his online marketing operations.
In Australia, the Spam Act carries penalties of up to 0,000 Australian per day for first-time corporate offenders and up to .1 million per day for repeat offenders. |
