Yellow Pages Deceptive advertising scam Carrollton Texas

My husband and I own a sign business. I had placed a free listing through a legitimate business, YellowPages.com. A short time later, we received a notice stating our free listing would be cancelled if we did not fill out and return the enclosed form. Believing this Yellow Pages company to be the same, we filled out and returned the card.

After a few days, we received a bill for $298 for the so-called "free" listing. When I called to inquire as to why we were receiving this bill, the person on the phone kept evading my questions about why we were getting a bill when the card said it was free, and eventually hung up on me when I insisted that we had not signed up for a paid listing. I called back and asked to speak to a supervisor, but was told that the person I was speaking with was all alone, was talking to me from a cell phone and could not transfer me to anyone else.

The company sounded very shady to say the least, so I looked it up on the Better Business Bureau web site and found out that it's already been reported for the same scam of misrepresenting themselves to be the legitimate Yellow Pages company and has been billing unsuspecting businesses for services they may have ordered from the legitimate Yellow Pages. It's also been reported on this web site as a rip off.

I add my experience so that others will know without a doubt that this is not the company it represents itself to be and that they are banking on the ignorance of the business owner to not know that Yellow Pages in Carrollton, Texas, is scamming unsuspecting people all over the country by using the same name and logo as the "real" Yellow Pages company.

A Scam Victim
Kalispell, Montana
U.S.A.