New Website Fightback Online is Launched

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This is a great new resource for everyone fighting back against the dreadful scammers, spammers and time-wasters.

There is guidance on how to avoid these problems, and there will be lots of stories of how people fight back.

 

Help us to make it a great resource by contributing your stories

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BT Engineer Charges Cold Caller

Confused Cold CallerRichard Herman was plagued by calls from a PPI cold calling company.  He asked them to stop calling him but the calls continued.  So, next call he warned them that if they called again he would bill them for his time at £10 per minute.

The Nuisance Calls continued and he kept a log and recordings of all Nuisance Calls about PPI received. He informed them that would base his bill for the use of his telephone electricity and time dealing with their calls.

He submitted a bill top the company (PPI Claim line Limited) for £195 which was 19.5 minutes of his time answering and dealing with the unwanted calls.

Even when the company denied making the PPI Nuisance Calls to him it didn’t deter him. He took them to court, but the case didn’t continue.

They settled out of court for £220 and paid him.

Hooray for Richard Herman.

Make them pay for wasting your time.

This is Nasty: Investment in Burial Plots

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We received an email at the radio station titled “Rainham Cemetery – 40% Returns within 24 months

They want to make money somehow from a cemetery. That’s worrying.

The email is from KT Marketing and seems to be genuine.

It says “Purchase one of the last available burial plots in Greater London, well below market value.

Returns paid within 24 months. Burial space to run out within 10 years in the South East.”

So, they seem to be saying that there are few burial plots left in London so buy them now and sell them back to the people who will be desperate to get one for their beloved relatives and thence have to pay exorbitant prices because of nasty little horrors who’ve bought up the few remaining plots.

How could you sleep at night if you made money off the back of bereaved people.

This is a nasty business.

The Salesman Who Wants To Do Everything

Too Much

This comes from an an email titled ‘Quality Web Design”.  Most businesses get stack of these kinds of emails – offering web design services, Search engine optimisation and similar.

This one was from a guy named Yuri with a Gmail account which tells you that Yuri is a lone worker, not part of a company otherwise he would use a company email address.

The email starts with “We provide a wide range of services to clients around the globe”

This likely means he is a solo worker and may have done once some work for a client outside his homeland.

Next there’s a badly formed marketing pitch about saving clients time and money.

Then a list of services on offer.

I don’t think this is a scam and maybe Yuri is a hard worker, but the problem is that the list covers too many things – from designing a logo to Enterprise Resource Planning with everything in between including Pay Per Click campaigns and mobile APPS.

The kind of person good at designing logos is different from the person with the technical expertise to build an APP and that’s a very different person to the one with many years experience in corporate IT who can lead a team providing an ERP solution.

This is the equivalent to seeing an ad in the post office window for someone who will fix your leaky tap or rewire your house or build a skyscraper – different skillsets.

If you want a good job then you pick someone with expertise in that area and people claiming expertise in too many disparate areas may know a little about many things but won’t have the in depth experience necessary to be very good at something.

Choose carefully.