| This involves reaching customers via communications media such as telesales, mailshots, catalogues, or advertisements with tear-off reply slips. |
| The Office of Fair Trading has warned consumers to be on the lookout for personal loan mailshots which break the law by advertising misleading interest rates. |
| On top of this, consumers are bombarded by television and newspaper adverts, as well as mailshots dropping through their letterboxes daily, enticing them to take out credit. |
| It refuses to specify how many mailshots it sends out each year, but admits it issues unsolicited cheques to card customers. |
| The mailshots, which featured a message from a breast cancer survivor praising Labour's policy, referred to the addressee's name several times. |
| Up to 140,000 homes in Belgium and a further 140,000 in Holland have been targeted by mailshots extolling the beauties of York as a tourist destination. |
