Another company fined for sending spam sms

[adamtemp64]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34647068

More reason for everybody that gets these sms to report them to the ico and network operators.

As per the help guide https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Pay-Monthly-and-Pay-Go/Are-you-fed-up-with-spam-calls-and-texts-Follow... (just been updated  for correct links)

[Bambino]

Good article and link @adamtemp64. Thanks for posting it.

[adamtemp64]

Form the ico enforcement it proves that forwarding spam to 7726 is actually used

17. Attached at Annex 2 is a spreadsheet detailing the 6,758 (six thousand

seven hundred and fifty eight) complaints made by individual

subscribers to the 7726 service. This list includes the subscribers’

telephone numbers with the date and time of the text, together with

the telephone number of the sender and mobile phone operator

network.

Full enforcement notice https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/mpns/1560036/help-direct-uk-ltd.pdf

[Toby]

Hi @adamtemp64,

A question I'm personally wondering about. Are there clear processes a business can take for spam calls if they receive lots of B2B calls or have you experienced such a thing? I'd imagine there would be different regulations. I'm not sure if I'm making sense!

[Cleoriff]

This made news last night and again today. The ITV show 'This Morning' ran a section on it yesterday. I am really pleased you have updated your link @adamtemp64

[adamtemp64]

@Toby well the tps registers business numbers to prevent them from uk companies the same as consumer.

As most companies now have websites and info@ or sales@ email addresses we had more email contact rather than telephone calls from companies trying to sell us there services as obviously it is much cheaper to send out an email than a call

It never impacted on us as if we wanted a new product or service we found them (if we got new product emails from abroad they were deleted) niche market

Hope that helps in your query

[Toby]

Perfectly @adamtemp64, thanks