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The crackdown on illegal marketing has claimed yet another scalp, with recruitment firm Join the Triboo the latest to incur the wrath of the regulator after sending millions of spam emails over a 12 month period.

The move follows an Information Commissioner’s Office investigation that found Join the Triboo sent more than 107 million spam emails to 437,324 people between August 2019 and August 2020, meaning each individual would have received on average 244 emails during that year.

Join The Triboo describes itself primarily as an operative of job search websites. The company operated five websites, four of which were job advertisement websites including ‘uk.job-search.online’; ‘uk.jobinaclick.net’; ‘uk.jobs4you.website’; and, ‘findajob.website’. It is through these websites that they sourced the data for their spam email campaign.

The ICO has whacked the firm with a £130,000 fine for breaching the Privacy & Electronic Marketing Regulations (PECR) which govern email, telephone and mobile marketing.

ICO head of investigations Andy Curry said: “It’s an issue many of us face – opening up our email inboxes and it being filled with emails we did not ask for or consent to. This shouldn’t just be considered a fact of life – it is against the law.

“We provide advice and support to legitimate companies that want to comply with the law. Last year, we released updated direct marketing guidance to help those very businesses.

“That is, however, not what was happening in this case. This company did not properly seek permission from the people it chose to bombard with spam emails. The company used job seeking websites as a key component in its unlawful campaign.

“In taking this action, we say to the public that we will continue to be on your side and protect you, and we say to any other organisation operating outside of the law that we will pursue every case like this brought to us to the fullest extent.”