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Bedroom design outfit slapped with £160k fine for 1.6 million spam calls

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Re: Not likely

"using the TPS as a contacts sheet"

I worked at a company that brought a dodgy data dump around mid-2000s, or more accurately a CSV with name, number, address covering about 2 million business locations which were used to setup website.

The problem was, most of the data was fake, and the phone numbers were residential... the sole purpose was to abuse search engine rankings.

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