[anti-abuse-wg] how to detect spambots - SPAMTrusted

Hi,

Ian Eiloart wrote:
> Under article 13 of EU DIRECTIVE 2002/58/EC, I think that the sending of
> UCE is illegal in every member state of the EU, which exemption where
> the recipient is an existing customer of the organisation sending the
> email. Even then, the sender has to give an opt out option with every
> email, and may only market "similar products or services".
> 
> I don't know anywhere that this is properly enforced, though.

The OPTA[1], regulator of electronic communications in The Netherlands,
has a website[2] where Dutch private persons can complain about spam
received from Dutch sources.

Quickly looking back, I see that in the past they have fined an
organisation for 510.000 euro [3] and another ruling was confirmed by a
court, for a 75.000 euro fine[4]. I can't find an English reference to
that though.

So something is definitely happening there :)


[1] http://www.opta.nl/asp/en/
[2] http://www.spamklacht.nl/ (only Dutch)
[3] https://www.spamklacht.nl/asp/nieuws/id/51
[4] https://www.spamklacht.nl/asp/nieuws/id/54

cheers,
Erik Romijn