Pro Business Publications Scamartist inertia selling con Edinburgh Other

We got this amateur-hour safety cd in the post, no prior phone call or letter with the package; the sort of thing AOL sends you in the post all the time.

When the bill arrives we finally knew where this rubbish had come from and we send it back. Surprise, surprise (no, NOT Cilla Black) some Jock tells you you have to pay for it...or else.

The Health & Safety Executive has received dozens of complaints about the company: it turns out the information you are supposed to pay 195 for is available free of charge from them; they are currently investigating for copyirght theft.

We then wrote to their bankers, asking them whehter they know they were providing banking facilities for this fraudulent company and to Tony Hetherington of the Daily Mail, who told us he was aware of this company and their modus operandi. He said he would run a story in the near future. We also spoke to Edinburgh Trading Standards who are equally familiar with this company and have already over 30 complaints on their files alone. THe VAt number on their invoices is also non-existant so they collecting vat but not paying it to customs because they are not even registered: 7 years in jail for that one, according to the VAt person I spoke with.

If they have a tape of any calls they make (if this is not another lie) then you tell the police: if a call takes place it cannot warrant the pusuance of an invoice to legal action on the basis that an offer was accepted: we spoke to Lothian Police who told us this was called fraudulent misrepresentation, and upon conviction punisheble with 7 years in jail.

Alyson
Derby
United Kingdom