
Agcom fined Retelit Digital Services and Tekmind a total of 822,500 euros due to irregularities in teleselling and telemarketing, including failure to prevent spoofing of telephone numbers.
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Agcom has been monitoring telemarketing numbers since November 2025 in response to numerous reports. The activity focuses on the fight against spoofing, a technique that falsifies digital identity.
Agcom imposed a fine on the companies Retelit Digital Services and Tekmind of 700,000 and 122,500 euros respectively as part of its supervisory activity on the correct use of numbers for teleselling and telemarketing purposes, which began in November 2025 on the basis of numerous reports.
Thus the Authority in a note, explaining that the cases under dispute concerned "the failure to implement the measures established by the Authority, consisting in verifying the correctness of the numbers used by the call centers, including the generation of numbers through the spoofing technique" (the falsification of digital identity, ed.). With the anti-spoofing filter, over 190 million illicit calls were blocked in the first 8 months, Agcom underlines.

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