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In February, Brighton-based firm Prodial was fined £350,000 for cold calling by the ICO for making more than 46m automated marketing calls – the largest ever fine for what was described as one of the worst cases of nuisance calling ever investigated.
While payment protection insurance (PPI) and accident claims are still the most common cause of cold calls, figures from the ICO – and, separately, from Citizens Advice – show nuisance calling has branched into new areas in the last year.
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In response to such nuisance calls the Office of Fair Trading and the Information Commissioner have promised to get tough.
Nuisance calls to mobile phones have also soared with seven in 10 people reporting they had received at least one nuisance call to their mobile compared with more than half in 2013.
A company that bombarded households with millions of nuisance calls about hearing loss claims has been fined £850,000.
"On top of that, there's the nuisance calls, emails and texts from claims management firms," he adds.
So popular have my columns about nuisance calls been that I thought I would prepare a special guide to confounding them.
"Each day we have to block over 170m scamming emails to our customers, and we block over 1m nuisance calls to our customers each day.
Last week a company that bombarded households with millions of nuisance calls about hearing loss claims was fined £850,000 by a separate regulator.
managing director of home and legal services, said: "This is a massive victory for the hundreds of thousands of people who supported our nuisance calls campaign.
All implausible feature-lust aside, though, the main obstacle to attaining all of this in a single camera is a little nuisance called physics.
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