News
Find below press releases that have previously been issued by the Consumer Ombudsman.
09. May 2005
Mailbox Media, publisher of a Danish mail order catalogue distributed nationwide, has now assured the Danish Consumer Ombudsman that no more ads promoting the "famous" fortune-teller Marie France will appear from the catalogue.
02. May 2005
Beware of handing out credit card information to American travel agents!
19. April 2005
24 February 2005 saw the release of a new guideline on ethical and environmental marketing claims – the latest of joint guidelines issued by the Nordic Consumer Ombudsmen.
19. April 2005
The Danish Consumer Ombudsman [ DCO] has reported a major player in the Danish retail market, Coop Denmark, to the police for use of misleading price information in their Christmas catalogue in 2004.
09. April 2005
Today the Maritime and Commercial Court in Copenhagen rendered a judgement on what it should cost the Danish telecom supplier Debitel to send unsolicited marketing messages by email and SMS to roughly 48,000 recipients without having obtained prior consent.
09. March 2005
The February scams campaign has now come to a close. Throughout the month consumers forwarded their scams to the Danish Consumer Ombudsman’s special fraud mailbox.
07. March 2005
Telia can no longer make use of children and young people below 18 to recruit new subscribers for Telia Mobile without their parents’ consent. This is the central message of Telia’s commitment to the Danish Consumer Ombudsman [ DCO] .
07. March 2005
"If you have fewer than twenty cheap tickets for sale per day, then make it clear!" This is one of the messages aired by the Danish Consumer Ombudsman [DCO] in a newly released guideline on marketing of flight tickets.
23. February 2005
VIASAT has agreed to pay DKK 210,000 (€28,000) fine for attempting to sell subscriptions to consumers who had not asked to be called.
17. February 2005
On the 27 January, the Danish Consumer Ombudsman [DCO] published a new guideline on section 6a of the Danish Marketing Practises Act, also known as the "spam rule".
