How we enforce this contract
It's all a matter of economics and common sense, really.
The fact is, anti-spam laws can't work because there's no single, univeral jurisdiction governing spammers. They can skip from mailserver to mailserver in country after country. So they laugh at anti-spam laws for the toothless, paper tigers they really are.
No... the only way to fight spammers is on their own turf — where the money is. We have to be able to hit them in the wallet – or worse. So here's how we use the numbers to justify the money we have to spend to track down and sue spammers.
In Australia, a bad debt is a tax write off for businesses like us. We just have to be able to prove that it's a legitimate business debt in the first place. That means tracing the spammer.
Every $1 of bad debt is a saving of 38 cents in actual tax that we won't have to pay. REAL money, not just figures on paper. If you extend that out, for every $1,000 of bad debt we incur, we save $380 in tax payments.
Just 40 spam messages from a single spammer is worth US$1,000 in bad debts to us — or US$380 in tax we don't have to pay. We're based in Australia, so at current exchange rates, that's more than AU$500 in tax savings for us. Not bad for LESS THAN HALF AN HOUR's spam messages to our domain.
But we still have to be able to prove that the debt is legitimate. So we have to trace the spammer in real life. That normally costs us less than AU$500.
Bottom line: it literally costs us NOTHING to trace a spammer.
So, if a spammer sends us just 40 messages, we can use our tax saving from those messages to trace him. And once we trace him, we publish his name and contact details on the Internet for everyone to see, as a public service (another tax deduction for us).
For AU$1,000 we can afford to initiate legal action against him in his own country to recover the debt. That's about 100 spam messages worth of tax savings for us, or roughly the equivalent of the spam we receive every hour.
If he sends us 400 messages, we can afford to spend US$5,000 to have him maimed. For 1,000 spam messages, we can save enough tax to have him killed in most countries. In some countries, we could do it for a whole lot less.Does a typical spammer send that many messages to this domain?
Absolutely. More than 40 harvested addresses from this domain receive the same spam messages from the same spammers, every time. (The brain-dead clients of spammers never figure out the reality of what they're paying for – USELESS addresses by the millions!)
It all hinges on us being able to trace the spammers, and that can easily be done for the right amount of money. So if you're planning on sending spam to this domain, bring it on. We'll be happy to have you either pay the US$25 per message fee we charge, or we'll be just as happy to use the tax savings to trace you and unmask you.
Of course, once your identity and home address are public knowledge, we can't answer for what happens to you from there. We're simply telling you now, in advance, so that you KNOW the potential consequences of your continued spamming of this domain.
It's your choice.
Of course, there's a third choice. Just don't send spam to any address on this domain. (We won't hold out breath on the chance that any spammer is capable of making a choice that smacks of common sense, of course... you have to have an IQ higher than your shoe size to achieve that distinction.)