{"id":8068,"date":"2025-10-31T02:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/spam-text-scammer-fined-200000-for-targeting-people-in-debt-after-sending-nearly-one-million-messages\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:03:29","slug":"spam-text-scammer-fined-200000-for-targeting-people-in-debt-after-sending-nearly-one-million-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/spam-text-scammer-fined-200000-for-targeting-people-in-debt-after-sending-nearly-one-million-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam text scammer fined \u00a3200,000 for targeting people in debt, after sending nearly one million messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Spam text scammer fined \u00a3200,000 for targeting people in debt, after sending nearly one million messages<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The UK Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) has levied a fine of \u00a3200,000 against a sole trader who sent almost one million spam text messages to people across the country &#8211; many of whom were already struggling with debt.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/spam-text-scammer-fined-200-000-for-targeting-people-in-debt-after-sending-nearly-one-million-messages\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam text scammer fined \u00a3200,000 for targeting people in debt, after sending nearly one million messages The UK Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) has levied a fine of \u00a3200,000 against a sole trader who sent almost one million spam text messages to people across the country &#8211; many of whom were already struggling with debt. Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,155,164,275,599,300],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-8068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-mobile","category-sms","category-spam","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}