What you can do if you receive Paedophile Spam.

    An Orewa reader has asked a question that has been bothering us too for a while. While what happens between consenting adults -- and offered to you on Internet -- is up to the individual, when this involves children, the matter is quite different.
    If you receive Spam that appears (or purports) to provide occurrences involving small children  there are a number of places where it can be sent.
    You can forward it to a government department which has jurisdiction on matters where the source is within NZ but with contacts overseas..
    You can just <FORWARD> without any covering email to censorship@dia.govt.nz and then delete it from your computer -- remember to empty both the <Deleted Items> and the entry in your <Sent> file to the censor afterwards.  Add this email address to your <Addresses> list.

Jon Peacock, Inspector of Publications, Department of Internal Affairs Censorship Compliance Unit told VillagePRESS,
    " With regard to email spam there are a couple of difficulties we face. First, it is very rare that the messages will have come from a source within New Zealand, and therefore be under our jurisdiction.
    "Where the material is clearly illegal content ie child pornography, we can refer it to the jurisdiction from where it originated. However we do not have the authority to enforce standard adult material from outside New Zealand.
    "If readers do receive material which refers to child pornography they are more than welcome to send them to censorship@dia.govt.nz.
    "We are happy to receive anything dealing with objectionable material so we
can refer it  to the  jurisdiction for action."

Another organisation, ECPAT, is worldwide and ECPAT NZ INC is NZ part to it. There website is www.ecpat.org.nz and a list of other organisations similarly involved at www.ecpat.org.nz/links.htm 
    There phone number is 09 846 2629 Auckland'