Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 484D

    A sender identification is a spoofing sender identification if:

  (a)   the sender identification is a message header that:

  (i)   identifies, or purportedly identifies, an entity covered by subsection   484F(2); or

  (ii)   identifies, or purportedly identifies, a thing or matter; and

  (b)   if that message header were used in a communication, that use would be likely to cause a reasonable person to believe that:

  (i)   if subparagraph   (a)(i) applies--the entity sent the communication or authorised the sending of the communication; or

  (ii)   if subparagraph   (a)(ii) applies--the purpose of the communication is to give information that is true in relation to the thing or matter; and

  (c)   that belief would be incorrect.