A rogue sales firm has appealed a ruling which said it pestered householders with more than half-a-million unwanted cold calls.
Dial A Deal Scotland Ltd was last month fined £150,000 by the Information Commisioner’s Office (ICO) after a near-record number of complaints about it.
The firm, jointly run by social media “influencer” Yvonne McCuaig, was said to have set up a series of fake companies to try to sell non-existent government grants for green deals on household items like boilers.
The ICO also stepped in to stop McCuaig and business partner Calum Kirkpatrick from shutting the company in what was seen as an effort to avoid paying the fine.
But before the deadline for payment passed on Friday, the pair submitted an appeal, meaning a further hearing is likely to take place.
An ICO spokesman said: “We’ve been advised that an appeal has been submitted to the First-tier Information Rights Tribunal.”
Nobody from Dial A Deal Scotland – which is registered to a rundown industrial site in Glasgow – has responded to several requests for comment from the Sunday Mail.
