This is the man who plagues half a million Britons a day with illegal spam texts telling them they are entitled to a refund for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI). The IT boss makes millions by selling the numbers of British mobile phone users who respond to his spam messages to claims management companies for as little as 90p each. The claims firms then pursue banks for PPI refunds on behalf of the customer, but take a hefty fee. He told an undercover reporter: ‘Often you must be receiving [PPI] SMS on your mobile... that is my company.’ Then he boasted: ‘If I was not making millions, I would not be doing this business.’

Jayessh Shah has flooded mobile users with hundreds of millions of pest texts over the past four years. What he is doing is illegal but the authorities are powerless to prevent him because his company is based overseas. For every PPI text you receive and reply to, Shah pockets £7.50 by selling your mobile number to a British-based claims management company (CMC) whose salesmen then harass you with repeated calls....Read more here: Unmasked: The Indian text pest bombarding Britain with 500,000 spam messages a day