{"id":75968,"date":"2018-01-08T07:01:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/government-urged-to-ban-nuisance-calls-and-texts-from-claims-firms\/"},"modified":"2018-01-08T08:03:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T01:03:06","slug":"government-urged-to-ban-nuisance-calls-and-texts-from-claims-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/government-urged-to-ban-nuisance-calls-and-texts-from-claims-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Government urged to ban nuisance calls and texts from claims firms"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nStudy finds UK consumers bombarded with 2.2bn calls and texts from pensions, PPI and insurance claims firms in 2017British consumers were bombarded with 2.2bn nuisance phone calls and texts from pensions, PPI and cash-for-crash claims firms last year, according to an analysis of Ofcom data. More than 40% of those calls and texts (nearly 900m) came from ambulance-chasing firms asking if the recipient had recently been involved in an accident or some other insurance-related matter, said Aviva, which on Monday urged such calls be banned. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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