Direct Selling: Fraud

(asked on 14th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to identify and prosecute cold callers claiming to represent a Government debt service.


Answered by
Lord Vaizey of Didcot Portrait
Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 19th January 2015
In situations where callers may claim to represent a particular organisation the ICO can take steps to try and identify the caller, so that enforcement action can be taken against them. Complaints can be registered online with the ICO at: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/marketing/20. Where cold calls are scams involving criminal matters, these are dealt with by the Police or Action Fraud: http://www.actionfraud.police.uk.
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