Virgin Mobile Australia Fined For Spamming
March 19, 2010Virgin Mobile in Australia has been fined for spamming. And what spamming!
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) investigated alleged breaches of the Spam Act by the mobile phone company when it was made aware of an email being sent to customers who had opted out of receiving promotional material.
“To make sure you’re still certain about this choice, we just wanted to quickly show you some examples of recent offers that we’ve sent to customers”, the text of the message read.
In other words, we’re spamming you to see if you really don’t want to receive our spam. Wow, what a concept.
This is not the first time Virgin Mobile in Australia has popped up in the news for some controversy. There was that Flickr fiasco from a couple of years back (which Virgin won, if I’m not wrong).
