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SPAM - the current law in SA

by Steve - Posted 11 July 2005

Thanks to Rob for his immediate support of the 30 day blog quest. He wanted a layperson's rundown of SA's current law on spam. 
So here it is without the legalese:

1)    You can send someone 1 unsolicited e-mail (or SMS) without their prior permission.

2)    If they then tell you that they don't want anymore of what you are flogging, you can't send anything else. If you do, you are committing a criminal offence!

3)    If the receiver asks you where you got his/her details, you gotta tell them. If you don't, you are committing a criminal offence!

The penalty for spamming in SA at the moment is a fine or up to 1 year prison time.