Below is the text of Amendment 19 of the Unfair Commercial Practices
Directive, tabled by Diana Wallis MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, which
introduces the ban on telephone and other similar scams by making them an
illegal practice under the terms of the Directive: Creating the false impression that the consumer has already won, will win,
or will on doing a particular act win, a prize or other equivalent benefit,
when in fact either:
- there is no prize or other equivalent benefit, or
- taking any action in relation to claiming the prize or other
equivalent benefit is subject to the consumer paying money or incurring cost
Local Liberal Democrats, Kaneez Akhtar, James Keeley and Judith Brooksbank
helped by sending Diana extra evidence: an article from The Keighley News
describing how a pensioner was conned out of £20,000.
Liberal Democrat campaigners Kaneez Akhtar, James Keeley and
Judith Brooksbank read the Keighley News article about the pensioner who was
conned out of £20,000
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