OTTAWA – An individual named William Rapanos has been dinged for $15,000 after the CRTC found that he committed ten violations of Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL).
The Commission said that it conducted an investigation after the Spam Reporting Centre received numerous complaints between July 8 – October 16, 2014 about emails that appeared to have been sent by Rapanos advertising a design, printing, and distribution service for commercial flyers.
Despite an appeal by Rapanos, the Commission said Thursday that it found, on a balance of probabilities, that he sent commercial electronic messages (i) that did not identify the sender, (ii) that did not include information that enables the recipient to readily contact the sender, (iii) without prior consent from the recipients, and (iv) that, in certain cases, did not include a functioning unsubscribe mechanism.
The $15,000 administrative monetary penalty is due by April 10, 2017.
