A cabaret company has been fined $2500 for breaching the anti-spam act with an old-fashioned fax campaign.
Encore Cabaret used an external company to send out a fax campaign in May last year advertising a mid-winter Christmas party event for businesses to 4960 recipients.
But the campaign backfired when the Department of Internal Affairs began an investigation two months later.
Internal Affairs said the Auckland entertainment company was issued a $2500 civil infringement notice after sending almost 5000 unsolicited commercial facsimiles.
Encore Cabaret had already had a warning in September 2013 for breaching the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007.