The NTS Scams Team has provided intelligence and investigative assistance to the Information Commissioners Office as part of a wider crackdown on rogue companies using pressurised sales techniques to sell insurance for white goods. The ICO has issued fines of half a million pounds against five companies making these nuisance calls to elderly and vulnerable consumers. This makes a total of £1.45 million in fines against 16 companies. See: ICO issues half a million pounds in new fines as fight to tackle illegal nuisance calls continues | ICO
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About National Trading Standards
National Trading Standards delivers national and regional consumer protection enforcement. Its Board is made up of senior and experienced heads of local government trading standards from around England and Wales with an independent Chair. Its purpose is to protect consumers and safeguard legitimate businesses by tackling serious national and regional consumer protection issues and organised criminality and by providing a “safety net” to limit unsafe consumer goods entering the UK and protecting food supplies by ensuring the animal feed chain is safe.