Boss of ‘lamentable’ cold call firm banned for 8 years
The boss of a home improvements firm which made more than 600,000 calls to people who had signed up to…
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Firm claiming to block dodgy calls guilty of dodgy calls
A Cardiff-based company which deliberately targeted elderly people to promote call-blocking devices, claiming they were trying to protect them from…
Legitimate firms face double whammy from robo-calls
The rise of AI telemarketing tools could with see legitimate companies being caught with their trousers down and trigger a…
Two firms spanked for torrent of scare-mongering calls
Two home improvement companies have been fined a total of £370,000 for making hundreds of thousands of unlawful marketing calls,…
Manc firm whacked over 5.5m calls to people in debt
A Manchester-based company, which sent over 5.5 million unsolicited direct marketing texts to people who were already in financial difficulty…
Ex-RAC data theft duo ordered to pay back £118,000
Two former RAC employees, who pleaded guilty to unlawfully copying and selling over 29,500 lines of personal information, have been…
Boss of Horsham rogue call firm hit with six-year ban
The boss of a West Sussex firm which triggered almost 38,000 complaints for unlawful nuisance texts has been banned as…
Car crash data thief ordered to pay back over £355,880
A motor insurance worker who unlawfully accessed personal information about car crash claims has been slapped with a £355,880.10 confiscation…
Scots energy firm coughs up for 700,000 rogue calls
The Information Commissioner’s Office has battered a Glasgow-based company with a £160,000 fine for making over 700,000 unsolicited marketing sales…
Car finance marketing sparks 100,000 complaints a day
The Information Commissioner’s Office has been inundated with complaints about unsolicited marketing activity for motor finance compensation claims, with 100,000…