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Post by fretslider on Sept 30, 2015 3:06:46 GMT -5
A green energy company which made six million nuisance calls has been handed a record £200,000 fine.
Glasgow-based Home Energy & Lifestyle Management Ltd (Helms) was investigated by the Information Commissioner after 242 consumers contacted the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in two months to complain about the calls. The company blamed a third party firm it hired to make calls and said it was appealing against the ruling. The ICO said that Helms conducted a massive automated call marketing campaign offering "free" solar panels.
An organisation should have people's permission in order to make automated calls, the ICO said. The company admitted it did not know what the rules were. Steve Eckersley, head of enforcement at the ICO said that the company’s ignorance of the law was “beyond belief”. “It did not even bother to find out what the rules were and its badly thought out marketing campaign made people's lives a misery," he said. The ICO found that the company - part of the government's Green Deal initiative - was also misleading people in the calls as the solar panels were not free.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11900825/Green-energy-company-fined-record-200000-over-nuisance-calls.html
Another green scam
