Anti-bullying educational firm closed for bullying SMEs
A Manchester firm that employed dubious marketing techniques to press-gang SMEs into handing over cash with the promise they would…
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Agency bosses banged up for evading £5m HMRC bill
Two elderly men, who pheonixed a marketing agency six times over a 16-year period to avoid paying more than £5m…
Show us the money: £7m in ICO fines still outstanding
Over £7m in fines issued for breaches of data protection and telemarketing laws in the UK over the past four…
‘Rip-off’ telemarketing firm forced to shut up shop
A telemarketing company which targeted elderly consumers to flog them health supplements at “astronomical” mark-ups has been wound up in…
Solar firm bosses scorched with six year director ban
Two bosses of a Stockton-on-Tees solar panel company, who caused their business to make almost 75,000 calls to people registered…
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…
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…
ICO hails rogue call victory as director bans top 100 yrs
The Information Commissioner’s Office is bigging up its achievements in the ongoing war against rogue telemarketing bosses, after revealing its…
Out in the cold: two more rogues banned for 10 years
The bosses of two lead generation firms have been barred from holding company directorships for a total of ten years…
Disgraced DM agency chief finally signs creditors’ deal
Direct marketing agency chief Chris Stoddard, who was banned from being a company director for 9½ years in June this…