Alan Wylie's Web Site

Fri, 2006-12-29


A reply from CIMA permalink
They have referred me to the Information Commissioner.

Wed, 2006-12-20


Data Partnership Solutions and Satellite Direct permalink

From the Companies House Webcheck database:

DATA PARTNERSHIP SOLUTIONS LIMITED
168 CHURCH ROAD
HOVE
EAST SUSSEX
BN3 2DL
SATELLITE DIRECT UK LIMITED
168 CHURCH ROAD
HOVE
EAST SUSSEX BN3 2DL
Spooky coincidence or what?

DPS seem to be associated with the phone number 0870 240 2559 (08702402559)

The above address seems to be that of a company of Chartered Accountants

UHY Hacker Young

168 Church Road
Hove
East Sussex
BN3 2DL
UK

Tel: 01273 726445

Fri, 2006-12-15


The Information Commissioner has responded permalink
to my complaint about automated marketing phone calls despite my being on the TPS register.

Some interesting snippets: 15th December 2006

Thank you for your correspondence regarding telephone calls from Satellite Direct.

...

In this case we have received a number of complaints regarding these calls.

...

Although the Information Commissioner has no powers to punish any organisation or individual for any likely contravention of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, there is action he can take to bring about future compliance with the Regulations. So if people are still receiving these illegal phone calls from Satellite Direct, please complain to both the Information Commissioner (if they are automated) and/or the TPS (if you are on their register), so that they can get their wet lettuce ready to give Satellite Direct a good slapping.

P.S.
No response yet from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Fri, 2006-12-01


Spammed by a UK professional permalink

For a change, not your usual Stock pump'n'dump scams, or herbal Viagra, but an e-mail from a UK Accountancy firm. Why they think that I might have any interest in them I do not know, but then the e-mail address that they sent it to was actually a Message-ID that my MTA had created when it received a spam back in 2004. Try explaining that to the Data Protection Registrar.

Sending unsolicited marketing e-mail to an individual in the UK is an offence under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003

I'm not the only person to seen this spam - there is another report as well as mine in news.admin.net-abuse.sightings: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=vnaccounting

I've sent a complaint off to the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants which are mentioned on the spammer's web page. Let's see if a Professional body is prepared to take action against its unprofessional members.

The spam was sent from, and the spammer's web site is hosted by Fasthosts, who have in the past been less than co-operative in fighting spam: for some time they would not accept e-mail reports, and forced you to go via a web page, that enforced a 50 word limit on the length of the complaint.

The details of the spammer's company are:

vnaccounting.com

Vishal Nanda
VN Accounting Ltd
70 College Street
Portsea
Portsmouth
PO1 3HA
TELEPHONE

(044) 02392 298 255

COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 5029548

VAT REGISTRATION NUMBER: 833 6195 20

Sat, 2006-11-25


How to complain about phone abuse. permalink

If there is a premium rate phone number (beginning with 090 or 091) involved, ICSTIS are the people to complain to. ICTIS complaint form

If you are registered with the Telephone Preference Service, use their complaint form

If you have been annoyed by unsolicited automated marketing calls, use the Information Commissioner's Office Complaint form

Tue, 2006-11-21


Satellite Direct permalink
Satellite Direct
Imperium House
Ford Lane
Arundel
West Sussex
BN18 0DF

08702 402491
I've been getting a lot of phone calls from this organization, despite being registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS).

First they were automated calls, in violation of section 19 of The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

Despite complaining to the TPS a couple of weeks ago, I have now received a live call from an operator.

There is also discussion in the newsgroup uk.telecom of such calls dating back to July. Googling the web and groups for the phone number 08702402491 (without any spaces) seems to be the most productive search.

I would strongly advise against doing business with any organisation that flagrently disregards the law and the rights and privacy of individuals.

I'm not the only one fed up with this, either.

I presume that their domain is satellitedirectuk.com, in which case this extract from their whois record might be of interest. The two post codes are for locations only a few hundred metres apart.

Name.........: Satellite Direct Uk Limited
PostAddress..: Unit 5. Orchard Business Park
PostCode.....: BN18 0EH
PostArea.....: Yapton, UK
Country......: UK
Phone........: +44 01243555044
Fax..........: +44 01243844094

Sun, 2006-07-30


Imperial/Metric/Whitworth spanner sizes permalink
The Excel version is years old - no guarantees that it will still open. OpenOffice2 spread sheet (15Kb)
Zipped Excel 4.0 spread sheet (4Kb)
HTML


More playing around, hacking perl, learning CSS. permalink
The web site currently validates nicely at w3.org

Valid HTML 4.01 Strict



Getting started permalink
Just playing around with Blosxom

Sat, 2006-07-01


Thanks for the e-mail. permalink