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I've now received four of these emails which were sent to four different email addresses. I've called the telephone number in the email and confirmed the email is a legitimate email.

Without verbal confirmation, the links in the email, and the fact the emails were all sent from the same Australian location, would allow me to infer it was most likely not malware, had I not been able to contact someone.

The sender in this case is a political party. The spam Act as I read it, allows political parties to send spam. 

The emails however do raise a very interesting question for me. Where did the party obtain their email address list from?

Political parties have made it legal for themselves to send spam. It is however illegal for businesses to harvest email addresses and one of the addresses used, is only available via the Internet site and never given out by any other means. That begs the question, is the mailing list created internally, or purchased from a business who has harvested email addresses?

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- Kelvin Eldridge