Vanquis Bank Limited (Monetary penalties, Finance insurance and credit) [2017] UKICO 2017-56 (09 October 2017)

Date
09 October 2017
Type
Monetary penalties
Sector
Finance insurance and credit

Vanquis Bank Limited, based in Bradford, instigated a campaign to send 870,849 spam text messages and 620,000 spam emails to promote its credit cards. Both the emails and texts broke the law because the recipients had not consented to being sent such messages. Vanquis Bank has now been fined £75,000 by the ICO.