Another one bites the dust: TPS abuser gets 5-year ban
Company director Jonathon De Sousa, whose business Xternal Property Renovations was found to have bombarded more than 110,000 people with…
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DMA fights off competition to retain £5m TPS contract
The DMA has retained the account to run the Telephone Preference Service and Corporate TPS – worth a tidy £5m…
5 million expunged from the TPS as clean-up continues
The Information Commissioner’s Office is continuing to purge inactive and invalid numbers from the Telephone Preference Service and the Corporate…
Jailed car crash data thief ordered to pay back £25,500
A former employee of Nationwide Accident Repair Services, who was banged up in jail for six months in November 2018…
Uproar as data rogue pays back £1 despite £1.4m haul
A rogue company director, who trousered an estimated £1.4m fortune from flogging illegal data and who left debts of over…
Cowboy firms face fresh crackdown on ‘data farming’
Rogue businesses which engage in “data farming” have been warned to expect a knock on the door after UK authorities…
Staffs firm joins TPS hall of shame with £90,000 fine
The war against companies which abuse the Telephone Preference Service has claimed yet another “collar”, with Staffordshire home security specialist…
Bungalow blight: High Court winds up rogue call firm
AMS Marketing, the company registered to an unassuming bungalow in the small seaside town of Peacehaven, has been forced into…
Rogue marketers gunning for equity release consumers
First they came for the pensioners, then they came for the PPI victims, and now, it seems, they are after…
‘Wolves of Wind Street’ gang are banged up for 12 years
A gang of four men, who called themselves “The Wolves of Wind Street”, have been jailed for a total of…