The boss of a Sussex-based home improvement company which ‘plagued’ households with cold calls and masqueraded as Citizens Advice has been banned as a director for four years.
Callum Jones, 39, of Oban Road in St Leonards, was the sole director of Colourcoat Ltd, which specialised in roof cleaning, wall coating and insulation services.
Colourcoat made 969,273 unsolicited marketing calls between August 2019 and April 2020.
A total of 452,811 of the nuisance calls were made to people who had opted out of receiving such calls by registering with the Telephone Preference Service.
The company also used false names and made repeated calls which were described by some customers as being aggressive and abusive – and even pretended to be…
