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Telco First pays $79,800 penalty for spam text messages
Marketing company Telco First (trading as Compare With Us) has paid a $79,800 infringement notice after an Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) investigation found it sent more than 65,000 illegal spam text messages.
Telco First sent the messages through another business that used artificial intelligence so text messages could be sent out to more than 40,000 phone numbers between March and August 2019.
ACMA Authority Member Fiona Cameron said there are no excuses for breaches of spam laws, even if the breaches occur in messages sent by other businesses operating on their behalf.