ACCC goes after Clarion
You remember those scratchcards from our friends at Clarion? (hint: scroll down!)
Well, that promotion has landed them in hot water with the ACCC who have ordered an interim injunction against the company requiring them to send a free SMS to all customers informing them of the costs of claiming their prizes.
From the ACCC website:
The ACCC [...]
The Luck of the Irish (part 2)
Here is the next update on the Irish Gavin and Iain McConnon broth
ers from “Clarion Marketing”, Moviestar”, “Global Billing”, “Prime Media”, “Promocom Ireland”, “Falcon Telecom”, “Puppy Promotions”, “Promotion Payments”, “Value Group”, “Parcel Plus” and all the other aliases they “work” under.
We were contacted by their Australian Lawyers, “Axis Legal Pty Ltd”, bragging about “Defamation” of [...]
Luck of the Irish
For legal reasons we have been asked to remove this post about the McConnon brothers.
We have decided to simply comply and let others speak for us.
ACMA issues formal spam warning
From Australia.to News:
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has issued a formal warning to Hyarchis Company Limited for alleged breaches of the Spam Act 2003. The alleged breaches were in relation to the sending of commercial electronic messages by SMS, without the consent of the recipient.
Commercial electronic messages can be sent by email, SMS, MMS and [...]
New Wixa Front 194060.com
TMG Company, the guys who brought the Australian public the ‘Wixawin’ and Woolworths scams that were recently featured in the media, have responded to public pressure….
…. by changing their marketing.
They’re not using the ‘Wixawin’ brand so much anymore, instead relying on a lot of smaller, less well known names. One of the bigger ones is [...]
XploraTones
We’ve had a few reports come in over the last couple of weeks of a company called XploraTones (or sometimes just ‘Xplora’) that captures customers by a variety of methods - either websites or print promotions.
In the course of our investigations we’ve been in contact with these guys and while their practice might be unsavoury [...]
More on Wixawin
Wixawin are just all over the place at the moment!
One of their more hardcore campaigns revolves around ‘winning’ a $500 gift voucher to spend at Woolworths.
As usual, the landing pages are non-compliant with carrier guidelines. Even worse, they don’t state what you have to do to claim the $500 voucher.
Now we have no objection to [...]
Wixawin in the UK
Looks like the Brits also have trouble with Wixawin.
We knew they were international, but had only tracked Spain and Canada so far.
The forum thread in the link above has multiple people complaining about Wixawin’s deceptive business practices.
