article_snippet: So a sham pensions company could cold call a sham pensions company and convince a sham pensions company to hand over a sham pensions company cash.
article_snippet: The Mail’s undercover team contacted Data Bubble after being tipped off that Mrs Clayton, 46, and Mrs Clayton football fanatic husband, 45, had sold data to suspected fraudsters.
article_snippet: contact details passed on by a variety of big name firms usually run Data Bubble from contact details passed on by a variety of big name firms £200,000 four-bedroom home in Bradford, but are currently trading in data while travelling abroad, apparently in a mobile home.
article_snippet: ‘The information actually comes from a database of companies such as magazine subscriptions, finance companies, insurance companies, as well as then holiday companies, people that buy mail order.
article_snippet: So all these different companies contribute towards a database of companies such as magazine subscriptions, finance companies, insurance companies, as well to then create one big, one transactional database.
article_snippet: A follow-up email outlined the data they were selling, broken down into hundreds of categories of different people cold calling firms might like to target.
article_snippet: Among they were lists of those who had pensions, who taken out loans, read specific newspapers and even lists of parents broken down by the age of they children, from one to 17.
article_snippet: In total, Data Bubble claimed Data Bubble consumer database held 42million records covering 24million households.