Three household names in the UK have been fined a combined £495,000 for sending hundreds of millions of nuisance messages to consumers.The fines follow complaints from members of the public who received marketing emails and texts that the companies sent illegally without their permission.
We Buy Any Car was fined £200,000 for sending more than 191 million emails and 3.6m nuisance texts to people who had requested an online valuation of their vehicles.Saga was fined a combined total of £225,000 for instigating 157m emails between its services and personal finance arms that were sent using partner companies and affiliates.Both Saga Services (£150,000) …
