The Information Commissioner's Office has fined a company called Boilershield for cold calling vulnerable people who were registered with the Telephone Preference Service.
The Croydon based company has recently changed it's name to Kwik Fix Plumbers. Many complaints were from the families of elderly people with dementia who had paid for insurance they did not need. Kwik Fix Plumbers said they had now fixed the problems the regulator highlighted. The Information Commissioner's Office issued the £90,000 fine when its investigation found Kwik Fix Plumbers had no processes in place to stop calls being made to people who had registered to not receive cold calls.
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