Nuisance-call bosses face £500,000 fines

摘要

Bosses of companies that illegally pester people with nuisance calls could be fined up to £500,000 under government proposals to make them personally liable.The scale of the problem remains immense. Around 3.9 billion nuisance calls and texts were made last year.A company breaks the law if it calls someone who has subscribed to the Telephone Preference Service (www. tpsonline.org.uk), which lets you opt out of "unsolicited sales or marketing calls".