Call centre fined £200,000
Help Direct UK has been fined £200,000 for sending thousands of spam texts that prompted almost 7,000 complaints in one month alone. Anne Jones from the Information Commissioner’s Office said: “This was a marketing campaign on a massive scale from a company who has already been warned by us to stop sending these marketing messages. Help Direct has deliberately broken the law by continuing to send these messages, which is why the company has received the first monetary penalty under our new powers.”
