The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) wants people to support their elderly relatives or neighbours if they are receiving nuisance marketing calls. The appeal came as a company selling funeral plans was fined £80,000 for making unlawful marketing calls to people who had made it explicitly clear they didn’t want to receive them. The ICO launched an investigation after a national newspaper had reported allegations of illegal practices at a call centre at Handforth Dean in Wilmslow, Cheshire, run by a company which at the time was called Plan My Funeral…
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ICO fines firm £90,000 for nuisance emails about pre-paid funeral plans
The Information Commissioner has fined London-based marketing company, Boost Finance Ltd (BFL), a company responsible for millions of nuisance emails about pre-paid funeral plans. Trading as findmeafuneralplan.com, BFL was behind 4,396,780 emails that were sent from January to September 2017. The emails were sent to people who had subscribed to websites operated by BFL’s affiliates, but who had not given their consent to receive them. The ICO investigation found that in all but one of the websites, it was not made obvious who the emails were from – although they…