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MSE News: £500,000 fines for cold-calling
Former_MSE_Helen
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This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story:
"New laws to fine firms for bombarding consumers with unwanted marketing calls and messages have been introduced ..."
"New laws to fine firms for bombarding consumers with unwanted marketing calls and messages have been introduced ..."
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Does this still only apply in the UK? We get bombarded with junk calls from Ireland.:heartpuls Mrs Marleyboy :heartpuls
MSE: many of the benefits of a helpful family, without disadvantages like having to compete for the tv remote
Proud Parents to an Aut-some son 0 -
I doubt if they have any jurisdiction in Ireland. If only these were applied to India!
However this is good news, I can frighten the hell out of UK cold callers now!!:eek:
Hell why not try it on foreigners as well!0 -
Hopefully this will stop Fredrickson International pestering me. They are vicious nasty people.0
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I had six automated calls from nationwide concerning an unknown persons flex account last week,every time I chose the, not at this number option. Two of these were after calling them and asking for them to stop. I then had a further call from a nationwide employee asking for the same unknown person.
I enjoy accident management calls from india. I once convinced them I had been injured in the street by a bear!. They only cottoned on when I gave the name postman pat.0 -
They get away with it though and always will. I once called the MOJ about cold calls on PPI reclaiming and they told me that if I had ever signed anything that allowed my data to be passed around (which I doubt I have ever done) then they are not exactly cold calling. This to me said that there was nothing I could do unless I could find the source of whoever was passing data about and ask them to stop. Needle in haystack.0
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I have had loads of call recently from 3 mobile, can I report them0
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500k isn't enough of a fine, how about a penalty of 1 billion pounds per verified complaint?0
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The idea's great but what am I supposed to do if I get a cold call or text?0
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What a waste.
This is the same toothless ICO that didn't prosecute BT/phorm, TalkTalk/Huawei, Vodafone/Bluecoat, BT/ACS:Law... etc etc.
The same toothless ICO that is giving the industry a year to obey the EU law on setting cookies etc.
This blog sums it up.
Meh, Dave0 -
MothballsWallet wrote: »500k isn't enough of a fine, how about a penalty of 1 billion pounds per verified complaint?
Personally I favour capital punishment for such offenses.0
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