An Australian company has been fined AU$5.5m after it was claimed they sent more than 200 million spam emails in a year.
The Perth-based spammer, Wayne Mansfield, and his company Clarity1, were found to have illegally sent out the unsolicited emails in the 12 months since Australian spam laws were introduced in April 2004.
Earlier this year, Justice Nicholson of the Federal Court in Perth rejected defence pleas that recipients had consented to receive the emails. Complaints about Mansfield's spam had been received from as far as the UK.
