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Think Twice before SPAMMING

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The next time you think about sending out dodgy advertisements to millions of unsuspecting people and hogging up Internet bandwidth, think twice.

Apparently a Dutch man was fined up to $97,000 for sending up to 9 billion unwanted advertisements around the world. Advertisements include advertisement for products such as erection pills and medication.

The Dutch telecommunications watchdog, OPTA, has levied the fine on the guy for trying to send out unsolicited emails containing sex websites and unapproved pills and they estimated that he sent out about 9 billion messages. That was just a rough estimate but the total amount could be even more. 

According to a study, an estimate of USD$10billion is spent annually just on SPAM. Storage space, internet bandwidth and hardware costs are increasing yearly and so is SPAM, a definite waste of money and resources.


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