National Accident Helpline - Go **** Yourselves with a rusty coat hanger
My reaction to the National Accident Helplines third cold call in two days. (and before you ask yes I am registered with the telephone prefference ...
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Text spammers from 'shady' firms will face fines of £500000
Sending
such texts can be a lucrative business – a lead generated by text can
be sold for £5 to a claims management firm, which in turn can sell it
for £300 to claims solicitors, says the Direct Marketing Association,
whose members use texting to market services legitimately. A survey by
Royal Bank of Scotland showed that 11 per cent of all accident claims
came from text spamming.
But
from this month, the Information Commissioner’s Office has the power to
fine organisations that send texts to consumers who did not agree to
receive them.
Simon
Entwisle, director of operations at the ICO, said: ‘We believe there has
been a huge increase towards the end of last year in sending texts to
randomly generated numbers.’
In its own survey it quoted several victims of text spamming. One said: ‘The text was sent to my 11-year-old son and to at least two of his school friends. I texted back STOP and received
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