MSE News: £500,000 fines for cold-calling

Former_MSE_Helen · 26 May 2011 at 12:39PM

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 ..."

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£500,000 fines for cold-calling

Tigsteroonie · 26 May 2011 at 12:41PM

Does this still only apply in the UK? We get bombarded with junk calls from Ireland.

cepheus · 26 May 2011 at 12:51PM

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!

char1iecha1k · 26 May 2011 at 1:01PM

Hopefully this will stop Fredrickson International pestering me. They are vicious nasty people.

Norman_Castle · 26 May 2011 at 2:12PM

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.

marshallka · 26 May 2011 at 3:05PM

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.

photome · 26 May 2011 at 5:00PM

I have had loads of call recently from 3 mobile, can I report them

MothballsWallet · 26 May 2011 at 5:47PM

500k isn't enough of a fine, how about a penalty of 1 billion pounds per verified complaint?

damo24 · 26 May 2011 at 8:34PM

The idea's great but what am I supposed to do if I get a cold call or text?

Dave_C_2 · 26 May 2011 at 11:19PM

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, Dave

Degenerate · 27 May 2011 at 5:56AM

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.

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