开店的朋友们注意 山寨YELLOWPAGE传真行骗

METROWEST

Yellow Page scheme
Overseas directory listings and registry scheme - by fax

A misleading fax has been turning up at business premises across WA. It’s for a $129 per month scheme run under the website www.yellowpage-westernaustralia.com

The unsolicited fax, which has an inverted version of the “Walking Fingers” logo, implies that by signing up you are agreeing to renew your business name listing with a well-known directory service.

In fact you will receive a tax invoice for $1548 for a 12 month listing with an internet directory scheme, which is not the primary business phone listing directory - the fee information is contained within the terms and conditions.

WA ScamNet understands it is part of a wider scheme involving location-based variations of the same name, including:

www.yellowpage-victoria.com
www.yellowpage-nsw.com
www.yellowpage-southaustralia.com
www.yellowpage-queensland.com
www.yellowpage-tasmania.com
Although the faxes suggest that the business is in the UK, the group is headed by Yellow Page Marketing BV based in the Netherlands.

We contacted Sensis who own the “Walking Fingers” registered trademark and they took steps to have the logo removed from www.yellowpage-westernaustralia.com which has since been rebranded as Western Australia Directory, although the URL remains the same.  

Sensis wants to hear from businesses who receive faxes from anyone claiming to represent Yellow Pages. Their number is 13 23 78.

Directory listing and registry schemes which mislead consumers are all too common. In February we issued this media release about a similar misrepresentation: "WA business could sign away thousands of dollars". The advice to businesses remains the same:

read all documents carefully before signing;
try to restrict the number of employees who are authorised to sign invoices and important documents;
avoid giving out information about your business to a third party until you clarify the purpose of their enquiry; and
deal with people you know and trust wherever possible.



Scams of a similar type include:
Domain Names Australia
Employment Protection Australia

[ 本帖最后由 METROWEST 于 2010-8-9 13:32 编辑 ]

METROWEST

注意：
真正的黄页LOGO的行走标志是反过来向下的
这个公司不是实体公司，是一个皮包公司(没有ABN），希望大家不要像我一样上当，不明就里的把资料填过去给他们
打电话过去问的时候对方就一个人，没有财务没有老板，只有雇员。
冒充正牌黄页行骗，搬出免费上传信息至谷歌行骗，事实证明根本在谷歌搜索不到
一旦收到对方寄来的tax invoice，绝对不要给钱

[ 本帖最后由 METROWEST 于 2010-8-9 13:44 编辑 ]

灰太郎

从没用过YELLOW PAGE

degra

正版的是 yellow pages, 山寨的只有一页， 不是pages

魔头

这个可以报警了吧