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A record of press releases issued by the Department's Electronic Messaging Compliance team.Media contact: Sue Ingram – Phone: 04 494 0584, Mobile: 027 541 4696.
2013
- Spam warning 02/05/2013
- Mobile users dob in more text spammers 04/02/2013
2012
- Spammers hijack NZ company identities, 07/09/2012
- Minister of Internal Affairs Chris Tremain announced that a new mobi site launched by the Department of Internal Affairs will make it easier to complain about text (TXT) spam (13/06/2012)
- Internal Affairs takes action against spammer 22/05/2012
- Migrants targeted in phone calling scam 20/04/2012
- Ignore death-threat email 23/02/2012
2011
- Faxes now captured by anti-spam law 19/10/2011
- More High Court action against alleged spammer 14/09/2011
- Beware of RWC scams 22/7/2011
- Impact of anti-spam law surveyed 27/06/2011
- Anti-Spam team joins Twitter 24/05/2011
- PlayStation scam warning 29/04/2011
- High Court action against alleged spammer 17/02/2011
- Anti-Spam Compliance Unit enforcement action 11/02/2011
2010
- Scammers persist: not from Internal Affairs 24/11/2010
- Drivers' licence scam continues 28/10/2010
- Scam warning: Callers not from Internal Affairs 21/09/2010
- Beware-Mystery Shopper scam circulating 13/09/2010
- Computer scamster active 11/08/2010
- Don't get sucked in by cold caller 10/08/2010
- Beware using purchased email addresses 30/06/2010
- Keeping up with 'real time' scam threats 03/06/2010
2009
- Huge US fine for NZ spammer 01/12/2009
- Spammers penalised 02/11/2009
2008
- Spammer to pay $100,000 penalty 22/12/2008
- Christchurch spam raid has sequel in court 14/10/2008
- Anti-spam team to address global group 05/09/2008