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[revdecal]

If anyone receives any phone calls from a company called 'Adrian Smythe publishing ltd' then tell them to f**k off!!

You 1stly get a call telling you that the 30 school books that you agreed to sponsor are ready and your invoice comes to £200.
Obviously as a business you know what you have agreed to and what not, so you politely tell them so.
They are adament that you did agree and as they are printed will invoice you anyway.

Smelling a rat, i told them to take a running jump.

14 days later, lo and behold your invoice will show up followed by a very s****y phone call (who happens to ask you personal details ie: D.O.B/MOTHERS MAIDEN NAME) how stupid do they think you are?

I told him in no uncertain terms what i thought and the fact that it had been reported to CID to which he replied that they would send around some lads to collect (scare tacticts!)

My response was that I would put the kettle on and surprisingly he put the phone down

My point being,what sort of world do we live in when at least twice a week I get some moron trying to rip me off!!

Also, I stick to my guns and am wise enough to have not been had (yet) but how many thousands of people get forced into paying?
CID & Companies house have a team looking into it but they really dont seem to be taking any action what-so-ever!!
To the point where there are entire forums dedicated to this one company attempting to fleece everyone.
The scum of the earth are allowed to walk away yet again

[antonye]

Don't worry, sometimes they get scammed themselves...
http://poststuff.entensity.net/040105/scam.htm

(long but worth the read!)

[BDG]

We've had 2 cases of this in the last few years,
the first was about £10 worth of cleaning products with an invoice for £120+ VAt and delivery.

The other was some kind of directory on a CD.

In both cases they had made a sales call, obtained a member of staffs name, nothing was ordered but they used the member of staffs name as a purchase order number.

The invoices were followed up by VERY aggresive credit control and threats of legal action/debt collection.

My accounts dept, just said that an office junior does not have the authority to order any goods (even though it was not an office junior).

When they came back with even more aggresive tactics i told them to Fork off in non uncertain terms.

The threats came to nothing, however on both occassions they were very persistent and i wonder how many invoices for relatively small amounts slip thru the system and are paid, or are just paid because people think its not worth the potential aggravation for small amounts.

These peolpe are just crooks.

[revdecal]

A case of baseball battus kneecapus is all these people deserve.
I do believe that one day,society as a whole will start to use retalitory tactics against these idiots...sooner the better

[Glyn]

i remember a case a few years ago a bogus company was taken to court and found guilty for a very large amount of these bogus invoices.
i think it was reported that the scam was in the region of a couple of 100k!!

there scheme was as above but they only ever invoiced for very small amounts, i think it was for stationary.
some firms were paying these invoices every month for about 18 months.

it stuck in my mind because i couldn't believe how easily these firms were duped!!