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Allan Gould

2008-03-26, 7:33 am

Unwanted text tricked people to respond
Premium rate watchdog fines firm £100,000

A crackdown on unsolicited text messages has seen one company pick up a
massive £100,000 fine.

Premium rate watchdog PhonepayPlus described the breaches by service
provider Netsize UK Ltd as ‘very serious’.

https://www.which.co.uk/ reports_an..._557_134730.jsp
or http://tinyurl.com/3d34rd

PhonepayPlus (previously ICSTIS) http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/
Steve Walker

2008-03-26, 10:34 pm

Allan Gould wrote:
> Unwanted text tricked people to respond
> Premium rate watchdog fines firm £100,000
>
> A crackdown on unsolicited text messages has seen one company pick up
> a massive £100,000 fine.


Which they won't pay, of course. They'll just dissolve the company and
reform overnight.


Chris Davies

2008-03-27, 7:33 am

Allan Gould wrote:
> A crackdown on unsolicited text messages has seen one company pick up
> a massive £100,000 fine.


Steve Walker <spam-trap@beeb.net> wrote:
> Which they won't pay, of course. They'll just dissolve the company and
> reform overnight.


If the Inland Revenue are allowed to "see through" one person limited
companies and directly tax company revenue as if it were personal income,
then why can't the Courts do something similar and claw back the monies
directly from the Directors. Or bankrupt them. Or whatever.

Chris
Mike

2008-03-27, 7:33 am

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:25:40 -0000, "Steve Walker"
<spam-trap@beeb.net> wrote:

>Allan Gould wrote:
>
>Which they won't pay, of course. They'll just dissolve the company and
>reform overnight.


Why should they bother? "Premium rate watchdog fines firm £100,000"
is entirely an empty PR exercise. Phonepayplus has no way of making
the company pay this imaginary "fine".

Mike.

Ivor Jones

2008-03-27, 10:33 am



"Mike" <mike@kempston.net> wrote in message
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news.kempston.net
: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:25:40 -0000, "Steve Walker"
: <spam-trap@beeb.net> wrote:
:
: >Allan Gould wrote:
: >> Unwanted text tricked people to respond
: >> Premium rate watchdog fines firm £100,000
: >>
: >> A crackdown on unsolicited text messages has seen one
: >> company pick up a massive £100,000 fine.
: >
: >Which they won't pay, of course. They'll just dissolve
: >the company and reform overnight.
:
: Why should they bother? "Premium rate watchdog fines
: firm £100,000" is entirely an empty PR exercise.
: Phonepayplus has no way of making the company pay this
: imaginary "fine".

And if they do pay it they've got to recoup the money from somewhere,
guess where..?!

Ivor

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