[pro-clean]

Hi all

Some of you may recall some time ago i told you about a company offering advertising in books for schools

The conversation went as follows:

Hi Rich how are you
it's jenny from taylor tanner publications
the advertising for the book that you sponsored is now being distributed as we  previously agreed, i have sent you out a form today for you to confirm which 2 school you would like the books to be distributed too and so on.

Basically the conversation went on to say that i couldn't remembering agreeing to it and many phone calls later and threats of court action for £250 that they were trying to con out of me, i eventually told them to p*ss off and take me to court and heard nothing from them.

Until recently

I had a phone call from the child protection agency who are looking for sponsors to sponsor books for children in need, turns out it's the same effin company, when i asked her if they were from the same company that tried to stitch me up last year she hung up, the next day i was contacted by a gentleman from crown prosecution service offering the same advertising in books, once again i mentioned are they the company above and the phone was put down on me.

so be aware folks of false advertising

[Richy L]

I had 3 phone calls like this on a week last week!!

they didnt get me though!

[BDCS]

I get them as well - the more you get the more abrupt your refusal is !!

[colley614]

I have had a lot of these.

Today I got a phone call for the website I asked to be put together a few months ago. I said great thats brilliant news! The only problem is that I paid for my website about 18 months ago. Thanks for the call, bye.

[Jonny jones]

hi, ive had a few of these ive named a few for you,   

anti bullying initiative

ambulance callnder surround

police community initiative

a kids charity cant remember the name of the people now

and the coversation starts off as,  "hi its john from wherever, is this castle cleaning" i say hi " oh hi didnt recognise your voice how are you, do you remember our call a couple of months ago when we agreed that you would support our course"

i think you get it. anyway look out for them,

thanx jonny

[mirandauk2006]

i had a police community magazine call last week wanting to know if i wanted to advertise for £175 in there magazine! not sure if it was genuine or not- we do have a police mag around here so who knows .number was unknown though on mobile screen.

[mick hay]

Any calls you get like this, police, ambulance, fire brigade, any emergency service....charities etc, put the phone down straight away!!

I used to work in the industry, none of the companies are legit.

I know a lot of the owners, 1 has a 355 maranello, another has a 911, another has a house where the drive is that long its got a little chef down it!!

I could tell you some stories about these, but i like my knees!!

If you advertise with one, you are a sales lead for the others, you will get calls for literally years!

Be warned!

[angela stone]

I had loads of these last year, and they really bothered me, children's agencies and such like.  I was naive and signed up to the police safeguard one when I first started up, cost me £100 and the publication wasn't printed. I had to threaten calling the police at one point they were sooooo rude!

Through much harrassment, I now pay BT £4 a month to stop any anonymous callers getting through to my number.

Also if you have a listing in yell.com.  They sell your details onto these comanies.  I phoned yell and asked them to remove me from their database, which they did.

so not sure which one of the above did the trick but I don't get bothered anymore.

Ange

[Alan Rowley]

I was contacted by these guys earlier in the year. It's all documented at this thread.

Beware!

[James Johnson]

OOOOOOH Yeas!!!!!

My caller tried to get me to give a  pass word regarding a web order some months ago. I said I did'nt have a clue what she was taliking about , and she said is looked like a birth date so I gave her a false one (not mine) . She then said a collegue would call back later to confirm the layout.... still no clue.
the second caller said I had ageed to an order for £360 last December and that I had given a pass word and it had been recorded so the order stood. This second call was about 20 mins after the first and I am supposed to think I actually ordered something months ago and let them use this birth date as proof.
I congratulated them on a really stupid con-job, told them I had also recorded the call too and  invited them to take the matter further...... no re-call of course.