Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-02-23-Speech-3-327"
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"Mr President, I too would like to add my congratulations to Mrs Bresso for ensuring particularly that we get this law to ban unfair commercial practices on the statute books at first reading.
Many of my constituents have written to me as the victims of bullying and aggressive door-to-door salesmen. I believe this law heralds the beginning of the end of the con merchants and the dodgy dealers who dupe and mislead our consumers. Thank you to Mrs Bresso for adding to the list of banned practices the bogus prize draws and scam lotteries
a scourge that is plaguing my constituents and relieving them of large amounts of their hard-earned cash and pensions.
One of my constituents paid out GBP 1 300 to a claims agent for transfer charges and tax to claim his non-existent EUR 630 000 winnings from the fake lottery
. Many of my elderly pensioners are being targeted by another bogus prize draw that promises winnings on return of a cheque paid for administrative costs. From premium rate telephone scams to property investment schemes; from door-to-door dodgy dealers offering building services, to the bogus lotteries and prize draws; the consumers in my country are being cheated out of GBP 1 billion a year. That is a lot of money lost to the economy.
This law must protect the vulnerable consumer. It must ban unfair practices. I welcome this new law on behalf of my constituents. I believe it is a great model of how we can deliver on behalf of citizens and consumers in a relevant and practical way."@en1
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