article_snippet: For while pensioners are targeted every day by cold callers, the man who sold their personal data is apparently relishing the spoils.
article_snippet: – is among a group of bosses at the firm who have got rich quick by selling people’s most personal information .
article_snippet: Most recently, as sales director of B2C Data, A 23-year-old student at Manchester Metropolitan University at the time asked an undercover reporter from the Mail to buy data off the books as a ‘favour to a friend’.
article_snippet: Cold callers use a wide range of tricks to obtain people's personal data (picture posed by model)
article_snippet: Computer updates: Scammers try to hack into PCs by pretending to be from Microsoft.
article_snippet: ‘updating’ instructions can allow Scammers to take control of Computer remotely and capture personal data.
highlights_snippet: Nick Sayer got rich quick selling people's most personal information .
  