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HelloFresh fined £140,000 for sending 80 million spam texts and emails

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Martina Lindberg

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Over 8,700 complaints were logged over spam messages from HelloFresh.

The food delivery company HelloFresh (trading as Grocery Delivery E-Services UK Limited) has been fined £140,000 ($178,645) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for sending 79 million spam emails and one million spam texts to customers in seven months.

Following an investigation, the ICO discovered that customers were not fully aware

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