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*** Another premium rate telephone scam ***
The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam:-
A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0306 6611911 (a premium rate number).
DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail scam originating from Belize.
If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed £15 for the phone call.
If you do receive a card with these details then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 02072396655 or ICSTIS (the premium rate service regulator) at www.icstis.org.uk or your local trading standards office. This is a genuine scam and is under investigation by ICSTISs
*** Warning about premium rate telephone scam *** Information has been received from the Police and Royal Mail regarding a current premium rate telephone scam. |
Fraudsters Target Companies House Database
Early Warning, the online scheme that helps UK retailers to prevent CNP (card-not-present) credit-card fraud, has today issued an alert announcing the existence of a new scam which specifically targets Limited companies via the Companies House Database.
A fraudster will first search on the Internet in order to discover the details of a particular limited company, including the postal address of the head office and its registered company number. Armed with this information, it is then a simple exercise for the fraudster to access Form 287 on the Companies House website and effectively change the registered office for the limited company whose details they have obtained. The new registered address could be a mailbox address or even a short let residential property.
Once the form is completed and submitted, Companies House will then make the necessary amendments to their database.
The fraudster is now at liberty to start opening trade accounts and ordering goods to be delivered to the bogus address. Companies House does not issue any confirmation of the address change.
Commenting on this new scam, MD Andrew Goodwill said,"Every Limited company should check their registered office details on the Companies House website and this should probably be done every month or so. It is our belief that Companies House has no responsibility to validate the details contained in Form 287 and that it may even require legislative changes to get them to do so".
The innocent company whose details have been altered by the fraudster will only find out about the scam when the debt collectors arrive, or when legal action is initiated to recover the goods that have been fraudulently obtained.
Further information about this press release, pictures and application screenshots can be obtained by calling Stephen Warren at The Marketing Exchange on 01903 203205, or by emailing steve@marketingexchange.co.uk
Notes to Editors
Early Warning UK Ltd manages and administers an online repository of known card-not-present (CNP) frauds and makes this data available to other authorised retailers. Early Warning develops and markets products that allow access to this data-sharing facility. In addition, Early Warning UK is also involved with bespoke development projects in the area of fraud prevention.
Early Warning (UK) Ltd, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, Tel : +44 (0) 870 874 4999
There are a few letters and emails dropping through your mailbox's giving the impression of bills to be payed or easy ways of making money. Here are just a few of them!
Fair Guide - Crown Data Collection - UK Internet Registry Ltd - it&t
European City Guide - touch - Department of Minerals and Energy
Fair Guide
The Exhibitors Fair Guide. Fill in the form at your peril, although it mentions the word free you could be signing up to paying 971 Euros per year, for the next three years.
Web Site: http://www.fairguide.com/sid6ff22f8c6565161352668fe426d13f39/index.html
Crown Data Collection
The First is Crown Data Collection Enforcement Agency £95
This can be done for £35 if you are required to do so.
Check the DPR website http://www.dpr.gov.uk/
UK Internet Registry Ltd
Secondly, Nominet UK is currently receiving a number of complaints about the sales tactics of a company called UK Internet Registry Ltd.
We believe that UK Internet Registry is not a member of Nominet, nor a Tag Holder, nor a registered UK Limited Company and that they may be based in Australia.
We are currently investigating whether this company has a listing of .uk domain names and, if so, where they obtained this list from.
it&t
The Third is it&t, some company that has set up an internet directory in Switzerland !!!
£417
You don't have to pay if you don't want to be in it.
Their website:http://www.ittag.com
European City Guide
Another of the directory type. This one is the "European City Guide" from Barcelona and could
cost a company 817 Euros
touch
Then there is 'touch' another company sending out invoices!
You don't have to pay if you don't want to be in it.
Their website: http://www.touchgb.com
Department of Minerals and Energy
The Department of Minerals and Energy in Pretoria South Africa.
A Dr. Cedric Haavs is talking telephone numbers in US Dollars that he is going to give you.
But it seems you have to send him money!
There is a website for this company: http://www.dme.gov.za/
But none of the details appear to match!
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