Australia nails first spammer
April 19, 2006An Australian spammer has become the first person to be successfully prosecuted under that country's anti-spam laws.
The Western Australia-based spammer, Wayne Mansfield, and his company Clarity1, were found to have illegally sent more than 56 million spam messages to email addresses around the world during the 12 months since the act was introduced in April 2004.
Source: http://www.scmagazine.com/