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Dave Fitch (david@die.spammers.au) wrote:
>I just rang the 1800 number and got a receptionist who said they bought
>a list of email addresses (as you said), she didn't know from whom.

I called as soon as I got the spam. The guy who answered appeared (from
the way he spoke) to be the one who actually sent out the UCE. I was
totally disgusted by his claim that he knew better than me when it comes
to bulk email because he had "been on the net for a couple of years", but
had didn't know what and RFC was and didn't know what newsgroups were.

He also said they bought a list of email addresses of "people who would be
interested in our products" from a company, but refused to tell me the
name of the company. It seems so far only Australians have been receiving
the modem spam. If there is an Australian company collecting .au addresses
and selling them purporting to be a list of people interested in
advertising (which is false), we might have a case for invasion of privacy
or even fraud. Certainly it could be taken up with Professor Fells.

Cheers
David