Sunday, July 30, 2006

Spammers and Frauds flourish in Greece

"A new program that has a database of over 40.000 emails and faxes that you can use to promote your products!"

I received today this fax at work and was alerted. I am 99% sure that if my director saw it, he would not understand the gravity of the situation and dismissed it at once.

It is illegal to sell email adresses.

This program has features to send mass email and snail mail.

It is illegal to send mass email for advertising products, without the written consent of the receiver.

And yet, these people sent open emails and faxes to all major greek companies advertising their illegal program. And nobody does anything?

Why?

Because we live in a country with no internet consciousness, where the law does not seem to apply anywhere, even if it exists. Greece is something like China for spammers and frauds.