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Automated calls company stung with £100,000 fine
News Premium rate regulator Icstis has issued a £100,000 fine to a company accused of making unsolicited recorded calls promising exotic prizes. Icstis had received a number of complaints about the firm,... [19 Sep 2005]
UK spam scammers escape punishment
News Instead the 190,000 recipients who called the premium rate prize line at a cost of around £7.50 were rewarded with less spectacular prizes such as holiday vouchers, or in some cases a family portrait. [06 Jul 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Your PC will never be safe
Comment The market leaders in a software sector are therefore the most tempting prizes. The category therefore includes everything from keyloggers that monitor your every stroke and diallers that take you to... [05 Jul 2005]
Leader: Phone spammers - at least they get 'done'
Leader Often the prizes include cars, holidays or major cash awards but like email spam the offers are either wildly trumped-up or straightforward lies. UK premium rate phone regulator ICSTIS has announced a... [04 Apr 2005]
Record fines for landline 'phone spam'
News ICSTIS has noted a dramatic increase in the use of automated caller equipment (ACE) often used to spam users with trumped up competition prizes or special offers and has moved to quash 16 organisations abusing the... [04 Apr 2005]
Ernie: The fastest premium bonds machine in the north-west relaunched
News With the number of monthly prizes set to rise from over 785,000 to one million, each worth between £50 and £1m, the new Ernie was commissioned by NS&I because of a need for a "faster, more innovative machine", according... [17 Aug 2004]
SMS and online ads draw record complaints
News Unsurprisingly, none of the complainants ever saw any fabulous holidays or big cash prizes turn up. The type of text ad that merited the most ire was misleading texts for premium rate services that told... [23 Apr 2004]
How to avoid falling for text message scams
News Prizes are expressed in foreign currency Warning that criminals are increasingly turning to the internet and mobile phones to fleece the public, consumer affairs minister Melanie Johnson said that many rip-offs try to... [12 Nov 2002]
Mobile spam regulators spank the Monkey for £50,000
News Those who made the call discovered, after several minutes, that the mystery prizes were holiday discount vouchers that were subject to various terms and conditions. A company that sent large numbers of unsolicited text... [29 Aug 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: The death of free email, Linux databases and P2P prize-giving
Comment The winners of major prizes included JBoss for Best Application Server, and Sun's Forte For Java winning the JavaWorld Editor's choice award for Best Java IDE. With the majority of email sites putting in place... [08 Apr 2002]
