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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Levi Winchester

Cold callers fined £400,000 for selling insurance to vulnerable pensioners

Five companies have been fined more than £400,000 after they targeted the elderly with "predatory" marketing calls.

The UK privacy watchdog said the "coercive" calls pushed victims into buying unnecessary insurance that they didn’t need.

Some of the people who were targeted had dementia or were too elderly to manage their finances, according to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

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