MCMC Malaysia Have To Arrest Email Mailing List Suppliers

MCMC stands for Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Communications and they are the government body responsible for the deployment of spam laws including SMS and email in Malaysia. I know about them because I literally took an hour plus trying to find more information about the spam laws in Malaysia.

And as you may have guessed, we don’t exactly have a CAN-SPAM act in Malaysia. Without this plus the legal guidelines of mailing lists, there are local companies openly selling email mailing lists. I know this for a fact because some Malaysia company spammed me with their…

SURE REACH EMAIL ADDRESS!!!! IMPROVE YOUR EMAIL MARKETING ACTIVITY…..

100% sure reach valid email, come with warranty.

Arrest companies like these already for crying out loud. Or at least, complete the CAN-SPAM act requirements and forward them officially to existing Malaysia businesses. If some bright person inside says, “We’re going to waste money because they’ll throw them away” then send the guidelines to all ICT companies instead.

Because those responsible to control and moderate (besides MCMC) mailing lists are the ICT companies. Especially those offering bulk email marketing or services allowing clients to blast out thousands of emails in a short time span.

Bad enough there were exposed emails during the Youth Malaysia incident, there are companies now selling email mailing lists in Malaysia like this:

.my email address – RM300.00/copy

• Collection of 20K non repeat email address with .my domain.
• Tested with our mail server on promotion email.
• Purely email address only, 100% valid email, 1 to 1 exchange if not valid email found.

In addition, the company is also promoting the availability of Singapore emails. So what is MCMC really doing about problems (involving privacy policies) like this?

[tags]MCMC, Malaysian Communications, Multimedia Communications, CAN-SPAM, Malaysia[/tags]

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