Anonymous text marketing - the punishment isn't enough

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/crime/s/1594803_stockport-marketing-company-bosses-fined-after-sending-thousands-of-spam-text-messages

So these guys are fined £440K but they were making about £50K per week so the fine is chickenfeed to them.

Many years ago when the government were offering free IT training, someone used my details to make free money from the government.

The Romanian guy who was skimming credit card details and could have take over £3M from accounts (don't know how much he actually took) MIGHT get a prison sentence.

These scams/frauds go on all the time. Until we punish the perpetrators heavily they will continue. Go through their accounts, find all the money they have stolen and make them pay it back. If they can't or refuse, take away all their assets (I accept that they may be in another country and not touchable), but hit them as hard as possible. Send them to prison for a very very long time.

These scum can make innocent peoples' lives miserable so they need some proper punishment.

Fine um, stick um in prison, strip them of their assets, shut their businesses down and ban them from owing/running a business again..........simple.

Measly fines to millionaires are no deterants whatsoever.

I don't know how long these guys were running this scam, but it seems for a few years at least. This fine comes after an 18month investigation so I'd be surprised if they hadn't been running this for at least 3 years.

50k per week is over £2.5M a year. 3 years and these guys 'earned' nearly £8M.

£440K fine is like going for a piss.