Cold Callers

Pension cold-calling has been made illegal from today, in a bid to tackle pension scams – here's what you need to know. 

Pension cold-calling will be banned from Wednesday 9 January, in a bid to tackle pension scams.

Pensions cold-calling will be made illegal this autumn, the Government has confirmed.

TalkTalk is to charge £2 a month for its Anonymous Caller Reject service, which automatically blocks calls from withheld numbers. 

If you're fed up with unsolicited calls, texts, emails and post from charities asking for donations, a new service launching this week will let you opt out.

A cold-calling firm has been handed a record £400,000 fine after it made nearly 100 million nuisance calls in just 18 months.

A proposed ban on "cowboy" cold-callers who telephone households to target savers' pension pots will be extended to include emails and texts.

A parliamentary petition calling for an end to cold callers selling pensions and investments has been backed by almost 3,000 people so far - and MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has urged as many people to sign it as possible.

Mobile phone users plagued by annoying marketing and sales calls can now send a text to join a register that makes unwanted calls to your number illegal – but while it's free for many, some people may be charged to use the service.

Cold callers who continue to bombard people with unwanted calls from withheld numbers could face fines of up to £2.5 million following the Government's introduction of new laws.