01204375923

Just had a call from this company to my mobile, asked for Mr or Mrs and my name, Its a legal company wanted to act on your behalf for hearing claims against industry! We are just getting to the end of ppi and now this!! aargh!!!! do they not think that if I wanted to claim I'd do so on my own?

Had a call from this number, answered the phone but no one was talking. Guess it was a group call at a call centre about the above! Annoying!!

Old scam - after your data to sell onto other criminals who disregard the law. Just hang up. Good reporting them to the ICO. You don't even need to know their name, just their number. The criminal fraudsters like Anthony Simister who run scams like TAPA like to plant stooges on these forums to discourage honest folk from contacting the ICO or Ofcom. Ignore them. Data criminals don't want the hassle, bad publicity or fines, and have big payoffs to make to stay in business. Pay them back with hassle.  I've bookmarked the ICO complaint form and report each and every call now via the form on www.ico.gov.uk :
https://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=134674895144

Here's the latest fine for a dodgy company caught with its trousers down and breaking the law:

http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/latest_news/2013.aspx

News release: 20 March 2013

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served a monetary penalty of £90,000 to a company that has blighted the public with thousands of unwanted marketing calls.

DM Design, based in Glasgow, has been the subject of nearly 2,000 complaints to the ICO and the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). The company consistently failed to check whether individuals had opted out of receiving marketing calls – in clear breach of the law - and responded to just a handful of the complaints received.

In one instance an employee refused to remove a complainant’s details from the company’s system and instead threatened to “continue to call at more inconvenient times like Sunday lunchtime”.

The monetary penalty is the first the ICO has issued for a serious breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) relating to live marketing calls. This latest penalty comes after the joint owners of a company, which was responsible for sending hundreds of thousands of spam texts, received penalties totalling £440,000 in November last year.

The ICO has informed two more companies that it is intending to impose significant penalties over breaches of the law, with a final decision likely in the coming weeks. A further ten companies are subject to ongoing investigation for cold-calling and sending spam text messages.

Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said:

“Today’s action sends out a clear message to the marketing industry that this menace will not be tolerated. This company showed a clear disregard for the law and a lamentable attitude toward the people whose day they were disturbing. This is not good enough.

“This fine will not be an isolated penalty. We know other companies are showing a similar disregard for the law and we’ve every intention of taking further enforcement action against companies that continue to bombard people with unlawful marketing texts and calls.

“All of this work has been made possible thanks to the information we are receiving from the public, which has assisted our investigation team in identifying the companies making these calls.”

View a copy of the DM Design monetary penalty notice

The ICO and OFCOM, who are responsible for regulating silent calls, work closely together and will be publishing an open letter to the marketing industry reminding companies that they must comply with the legal and regulatory measures in place. Failure to do so will lead to enforcement action, with the ICO able to issue penalties of up to £500,000 for serious breaches of the PECR, and OFCOM having the power to issue penalties of up to £2,000,000 over breaches of rules linked to abandoned and silent calls.

The ICO has setup a online reporting tool which people can use to send us the details of any unwanted marketing texts and calls. View the reporting tool, which has already received nearly 140,000 responses since it was setup in March last year.



Notes to Editors

1. The Information Commissioner’s Office upholds information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.

2. The ICO has specific responsibilities set out in the Data Protection Act 1998, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003.

3. The ICO is on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and produces a monthly e-newsletter.

4. The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 support the Data Protection Act by regulating the use of electronic communications, including live and automated marketing calls and marketing text messages. The ICO has the power to issue monetary penalties up to £500,000 for serious breaches of the regulations.

5. OFCOM is responsible for regulating abandoned and silent calls under the Communications Act 2003. OFCOM has the power to serve persistent offenders with financial penalties up to £2,000,000 pounds.

Got a phone call from this number 01204375923 answered it no one there then it said Goodbye?

Me too, just had a call from this number 01204375923 answered it with hello, I was greeted with silence and then a beep like a end of recording tone, then a recorded female voice said Goodbye?

Just had another call from this firm in Bolton asking if I had ever worked in industry as I could claim for hearing loss, if it's not this it's bloody PPI claims. Getting really fed up with these calls now I'm x directory and registered with the telephone preference scheme but it's not stopping these calls.

Just had a call from this number. Guy said he was from a firm called Connect. Wanted to find out if I was eligible for a free Industrial hearing test. Told him Not interested. I am with TPS so why do we get these cold calls. Tome the law was tightened up and something was done about these cowboy firms

Had a phone call yesterday from someone about PPI Claim, after they phoned 4 times I just went along with call and made up a name, informed them I had never had credit, loan mortgage or anything else associated with PPIs they were not getting the message I wasn't interested, it was a with held number..  Today I received call off this number asking to speak to my made up person... No point in signing up for any of these  telephone preference schemes or going x directory...

Got call from this number when to automated and then hung up...

A real pain there should be a block to put on thease numbers and a jail term with the misarey they cause

If we are ever to achieve that, you need to make sure your MP is aware of your views.

Claimed to be from Prudential, selling an "all of life" policy. Apologised and rang off when I asked how they got my number, and pointed out that I'm registered with TPS.

Silent call. Answered the phone, silent for a few seconds then I hear "goodbye." This is the 4th or 5th time I've had this happen with this caller.