Fines threat for credit text messages

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Fines threat for credit text messages

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 28th January 2012 09:15.

Firms face raids and fines of up to £500,000 for sending unsolicited text messages about credit or compensation. The Information...

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Text spammers from 'shady' firms will face fines of £500,000......
From ‘sympathetic’ enquiries about car accidents to concern that you may have been mis-sold an insurance policy, text spammers – mass senders of unsolicited texts – come in many guises. But from this month they face fines of up to £500,000 as the authorities attempt to clamp down on a fast-growing problem. One survey found that an astonishing 20 million mobile phone users had received messages such as: ‘Free Msg: Important! Records indicate you are entitled to £3,700 from Mis-Sold Loan Insurance (PPI). To claim reply YES to this message. Thank you.’ Many recipients of this message have never taken out loan insurance....Read more here--: Text spammers from 'shady' firms will face fines of