https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/06/spam_pay_day_loan_texts_get_welsh_firm_60k_penalty/ > A Welsh firm has been handed a £60,000 fine for spamming more than 270,000 pay-day loan texts around Christmas 2016. > The UK's data protection watchdog doled out the penalty to STS Commercial Limited – which is registered as an IT service provider – after finding that the biz didn't have consent to send the messages, which elicited 268 complaints.