Virgin Media fined for spamming users
 

That will be £50,000 and a ton of bad publicity

For a while now, at least in Italy, mobile phone companies have believed that they can ring or text you when they like, but now it seems regulators are starting to order them to put the brakes on.

British telco Virgin Media is facing a £50,000 financial penalty after spamming more than 400,000 opted-out customers.

A customer complained to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) about receiving the spam -- but that was enough to spur the regulator into investigating.

In a message disguised as a routine communication about tariff prices, Virgin told 451,217 recipients it knew full well they'd opted out of marketing emails but wanted them to opt back in.

Unfortunately, that is not how the spam opt out rules work. If you are opted out, a company cannot spam you to opt in. In fact if you have opted out, the company should have destroyed your data.

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