4 Nuisance call firms fined over £1M in total - pressure begins to mount on others

[Michael Browne]

The ICO is taking action against two more cold call blocking companies, continuing the crackdown on nuisance calls.

 

Poole-based Nuisance Call Blocker Ltd has been fined £90,000 and Telecom Protection Service Ltd, based in Bournemouth, has received an £80,000 fine. Both companies were found to be making unsolicited marketing calls to people registered on the official Telephone Preference Service while trying to sell products and services to block the type of cold calls they were making.

 

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2015/11/ico-issues-fines-totalling-170-000-to-cold-call-blocking-companies/

 

 

Company fined £850,000 for millions of nuisance calls

 

The National Advice Clinic, based in Lancashire, which also trades as the Industrial Hearing Clinic or the Central Compensation Office, made nearly 6 million calls between October 2014 and April 2015 about noise induced hearing loss claims has been fined £850,000 by the Claims Management Regulator

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/company-fined-850000-for-millions-of-nuisance-calls

 

 

ICO fines PPI claims firm £80,000 over 1.3m spam SMS deluge

 

The Information Commissioner's Office has served up penalty of £80,000 to a PPI claims company that sent more than 1.3 million spam texts.

Brum-based UKMS Money Solutions Limited (UKMS) had bought numbers in bulk from list brokers which it subsequently spammed to encourage people to make compensation claims for mis-sold payment protection insurance.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/23/ico_fines_ppi_claims_firm/

[mikeymack2002]

More fines are needed and much more heavier too tbh.

[Teefenn1]

Fines of any amount against these type of companies will always be ineffective. They'll simply liquidate the company and reopen under a different name. There needs to be fines against individual directors of these companies, sufficiently punitive to bankrupt these scumbags, seize their assets and render them penniless and homeless.

[2tied2tango]

Im glad The National Advice Clinic finally got fined,

They used to ring me regularly, when i got fed up with them and told them where to go they phoned me back and threatened me.

These people shouldnt be in business in the first place

[mmfhater]

I've reported 2 in the last week