Bradford-based bank fined for illegal marketing
A Bradford-based bank has been fined £75,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for sending illegal marketing texts and emails.
Vanquis Bank, which is part of Provident Financial, instigated a campaign to send 870,849 spam text messages and 620,000 spam emails to promote its credit cards. Both the emails and texts broke the law because the recipients had not consented to being sent such messages. Vanquis Bank has now been fined £75,000 by the ICO.
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