Payday loans company fined for mass spam texting

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 17th December 2013 12:10.

Payday loans company, First Financial, has been charged with a £175,000 penalty by the Information Commissioner

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I received a text message from Cabot it said my name and asked me to contact them urgently with a reference number .

I am ignoring it but it annoys me that they have found my number and are harassing me , i can do without these muppets texting me i have my mobile to stay in touch with my...

For many years we have 2 dogs, one small, one largish. We now have a giant 2 year Los who gets lonely as everyone is scared of him! 80 kilos running to play with a human or dog can be scary
our little JR tartar died in January.
2 weeks ago I bought a 10 week old JR puppy from a farm;...

Thousands still hassled by unwanted cold callers

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 2nd July 2012 11:17.

*... despite Government scheme to block them* Thousands of households are still being hassled by unwanted cold callers, despite signing up to a new...
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now i have the time i decided that i wanted to work out how many texts i and the missus use on our respective contracts.

So i went online to save pdf.s of all bills

So shock horror that in 1 month to 1 number there was 1664 messages from her to another bloke.

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Hubby checked his credit file and amongst the known marks he noticed the following for his Barclaycard:

Taken out 17 November 2007 (Balance is £6082)
File shows ok for Nov 07 , Dec 07, Jan 08 and Feb 08
March 08 - 1
April 08 - 2
May 08 - 3
June 08 - 4 ...

hi all im new to this site been taking advice from cag ,but was directed here by one of there members.

my problem is that i have approx £14k[edited] in credit card debts which until january last year i was paying comfortably ,but as i run my own business my income has gone down and i have...

Thought it would be good for me to start one of these as everything is getting a bit hairy again.

Background: I had to give up my job due to ill health in Feb 08, my UE journey began in Jan 09 - since then my health has got dramatically worse, and we have had to endure so many blows along...