The Information Commissioner’s Office is expecting to issue a winding-up petition against cold-call outfit CRDNN Ltd and has now instructing solicitors to progress recovery of a half a million pound unpaid fine.
The fine was issued earlier this year after the Commissioner discovered the company had made over 200million nuisance calls on matters including windows, conservatories and scrappage in 2018, generating leads that it then sold on https://www.the-glazine.com/WeeklyFolders/glazine03march2020/a_company_recently_revealed.htm .
The business was formerly known as Contact Reach Digital Limited, which The Glazine had revealed as being behind a series of websites claiming to promote ‘windows scrappage’ and other supposed subsidies but supplying leads to Kairos-owned Clearwin Ltd on behalf of the group’s installer brands including Zenith, Weatherseal and St Helens Glass.
The cold calls which led to the fine were all made from so-called ‘spoofed’ numbers, which came up on caller ID simply as ‘International’. An automatic message would play inviting the recipient to press one key for further information or another to opt out.
The ICO says the company broke the law by not gaining consent from the phone owners to make those calls and by not providing a valid opt out.
A spokesperson confirmed to The Glazine in September that the fine was still outstanding and it had initiated formal action against the company and its then directors to recover the sum https://www.the-glazine.com/?p=832 .
A spokesperson said this week: “We have now instructed solicitors to progress the recovery and so anticipate issuing a petition for winding up in due course.”
