Craig Whitmore wrote:

That should be 2004 :-(

See : http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/04/040429canspam.htm

It was the first company charged under the new US laws which cam into effect.

It says "The Global Web Promotions Pty case was brought with the assistance of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the New Zealand Commerce Commission."

Oh that one... Mike van Essen and Shane Atkinson's brother Lance, both based in Australia. Well, I wrote about them when the FTC first charged them, but as you can see from the default judgement, neither showed up to contest the case. They got hit for US$2.2 million though. Are they spamming again? The ComCom didn't do anything much in this case. I asked them. They didn't act against Shane Atkinson either. -- Juha

Simon Byrnand wrote:

At 18:27 29/01/2006, Craig Whitmore wrote:

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Hi there

Has anyone got any information on Global Web Productions and the NZ Commerce Comissions Involvement with them in getting them shut down in 1994 with the US CAN-SPAM? Seaching on the web and on the comcom website I cannot find any information at all what involvement they (the comcom) had or what they did or who the people in New Zealand where.

1994 ??

Yeah, quite clever of them considering the act only got signed into law in 2003.. :-) -- Steve.