A company owned by two phone shops located in Northern Italy received a sanction from 150 thousand euros. The fine was imposed by Privacy Guarantor and it arrived following aillicit activity conducted for some time. The victims were users who used both businesses, owned by Sigma s company.r.L.
The main accusation is that of having activated illegally subscriptions, charges And SIM. The aforementioned activations took place using the personal data of hundreds of people who had not however provided their authorization.
Fine of 150 thousand euros for illicit SIM activation
There Financial Police discovered the violation after receiving a complaint by one woman who had encountered some unrecognized charges on your credit card. Specifically, the payments concerned the activation of a new contract that was concluded on behalf of her husband that was it though deceased.
Investigations subsequently began and theinvestigation made it possible to find numerous serious violations. Stigma srl had exploited the systems of the telephone operator for which it had the operational mandate obtain data and documents
of users and activate 1300 SIM. Furthermore, the company had collected customer signatures using a tablet without clarifying the reasons for a turnover of 80 thousand euros.
The provision of February 22 was published on the official website of the Privacy Guarantor explaining what happened. The press release explains that the measure began on March 10, 2022 following a complaint from a customer Vodafone Italia S.p.TO. who complained about a series of charges on your card by the company. The charges, as anticipated, concerned the activation of a contract for some telephone services registered in the husband’s name, but it was deceased L’November 8, 2020.
Having uncovered a systematic activity by the Sigma company, which has control of two points of sale Vodafone in Trento and in Pergine Valsugana (TN). Aimed at activating SIMs and various telephone services without the knowledge of the users involved.
