This is about the current owner of forumw and projectw, megamoldy, who's real name is Scott Mark Moles from Australia.
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Sunshine Coast man faces fines over email scam
(Australian IT online magazine)
Jobspy senior executive Scott Moles (left). Pic: Channel 10
A SUNSHINE Coast man has admitted to being the mastermind behind the world's biggest email scam and faces fines of up to $200,000 next week.
In a separate action, a Queensland man and a company were fined $6.5 million for a mobile phone texting scam that targeted users of dating websites.
For that scam, fines have yielded the Federal Government's anti-spam body, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, more than than $22 million in the past year.
Lance Thomas Atkinson, 26, yesterday admitted in the Federal Court he was part of scam that sent "billions" of emails to websites in India, posting false advertisements offering lifestyle drugs to computer users and claiming the drugs were being legally dispensed from the US.
Atkinson's assets are currently frozen by US authorities.
Earlier this month, authorities in the US fined Atkinson $16 million over the operation.
The Australian authority yesterday said it pursued Atkinson after it received complaints from more than 100,000 computer users over unsolicited emails linked back to him.
It was alleged Atkinson also co-opted other computer users around the world to send spam emails.
Justice Andrew Greenwood reserved his decision until Tuesday.
Brisbane's Federal Court also yesterday imposed a $6.5 million fine against a sham mobile telephone dating company and a senior executive.
The penalties, as well as a further $15.75 million imposed on five other defendants since October, bring the total of fines imposed this year to $22.25 million.
Mobile phone dating company Jobspy was fined $4 million and its senior executive Scott Mark Moles ordered to pay $2.5 million.
The court was told Jobspy and Moles were involved in a complicated scheme whereby they, with other respondents, established fake dating website profiles to obtain mobile telephone numbers of genuine dating website users.
Mobile phone users were sent messages from people pretending to want to meet them.
Users who responded to the messages were charged about $5 per message.
ACMA said the scheme had cost Australian phone users more than $4 million since it began in late 2005.
The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network has appealed for greater education of technology users, saying there were "high levels of digital illiteracy" among sections of the population.
"These two cases . . . show how easy it is in our system for people to be deceived in the online world," network CEO Allan Asher said.
The hearing in relation to the final Jobspy executive, Scott Gregory Phillips, is scheduled for February 8.
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megamoldy was facing court action a while ago and he was found guilty and he is now bankrupt.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/sunshine-coast-man-faces-fines-over-email-scam/story-e6frgakx-1225811240282Sunshine Coast man faces fines over email scam
(Australian IT online magazine)
Jobspy senior executive Scott Moles (left). Pic: Channel 10
A SUNSHINE Coast man has admitted to being the mastermind behind the world's biggest email scam and faces fines of up to $200,000 next week.
In a separate action, a Queensland man and a company were fined $6.5 million for a mobile phone texting scam that targeted users of dating websites.
For that scam, fines have yielded the Federal Government's anti-spam body, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, more than than $22 million in the past year.
Lance Thomas Atkinson, 26, yesterday admitted in the Federal Court he was part of scam that sent "billions" of emails to websites in India, posting false advertisements offering lifestyle drugs to computer users and claiming the drugs were being legally dispensed from the US.
Atkinson's assets are currently frozen by US authorities.
Earlier this month, authorities in the US fined Atkinson $16 million over the operation.
The Australian authority yesterday said it pursued Atkinson after it received complaints from more than 100,000 computer users over unsolicited emails linked back to him.
It was alleged Atkinson also co-opted other computer users around the world to send spam emails.
Justice Andrew Greenwood reserved his decision until Tuesday.
Brisbane's Federal Court also yesterday imposed a $6.5 million fine against a sham mobile telephone dating company and a senior executive.
The penalties, as well as a further $15.75 million imposed on five other defendants since October, bring the total of fines imposed this year to $22.25 million.
Mobile phone dating company Jobspy was fined $4 million and its senior executive Scott Mark Moles ordered to pay $2.5 million.
The court was told Jobspy and Moles were involved in a complicated scheme whereby they, with other respondents, established fake dating website profiles to obtain mobile telephone numbers of genuine dating website users.
Mobile phone users were sent messages from people pretending to want to meet them.
Users who responded to the messages were charged about $5 per message.
ACMA said the scheme had cost Australian phone users more than $4 million since it began in late 2005.
The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network has appealed for greater education of technology users, saying there were "high levels of digital illiteracy" among sections of the population.
"These two cases . . . show how easy it is in our system for people to be deceived in the online world," network CEO Allan Asher said.
The hearing in relation to the final Jobspy executive, Scott Gregory Phillips, is scheduled for February 8.
(end of article)
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megamoldy was facing court action a while ago and he was found guilty and he is now bankrupt.
Sources
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/sunshine-coast-man-faces-fines-over-email-scam/story-e6frgakx-1225811240282
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_311986
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/06/01/1243708408133.html
http://www.thescambaiter.com/FORUM/showthread.php?p=323375
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,26692807-3102,00.html
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/41114.php
http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=9426
http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/news/phone-sms-spammers-fined-15m-in-brisbane-court/story-e6frg2qu-1225790619536
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/07/2764233.htm
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/lonely-heart-spammers-hit-with-huge-fine-20091216-kwtx.html