phone calls
Complaint
Jane Daughtry
Country: United States
They said the name of the company was Yellow Pages Public and kept calling, saying we'll be charged 599.99 if don't get this cancellation number and in order to get this I have to say 'yes' to receiving this invoice. They also said they had a contract signed by us from the year 2009 for a free year, which was 2110, and the 599.99 is for 2011 and would be charged without this cancellation process going through. The phone number call came from was 347-418-0489. The call kept getting disconnected, and they'd call back, continuing to tell me I HAD to have confirmation/cancellation # or would be charged. Haven't heard back from the last disconnect.
Comments
Who has time for this crap again.
They are well known for doctoring recordings.
It's common practice among fraudulent telemarketers in the Montreal area.
File fraud complaints with FTC, and your state Attorney General.
They probably already have thousands of fraud complaints, and FTC and RCMP go after Montreal scammers every few years. The last batch is still winding its way through the courts, but they just move, change names and keep scamming.
They probably will send it to ACA Recovery, the "collection agency to the scams", in New Jersey.
They are in on it, know exactly how fraudulent their "accounts" are, and play the same doctored tapes. If they send you a fraudulent invoice, file a mail fraud complaint with the US Postal Inspector, and send them a copy as evidence, and also file a fraud complaint with the New Jersey Attorney General.
Tell them you've filed fraud complaints, and they generally go away. They threaten "lawsuits" or "damaging your credit", but the only posts saying they ever actually did it was by an obvious shill.
https://complaintwire.org/complaint/VWW8UqGchQU/public-yellow-pages
Many telemarketers, including scams, use VoIP, so they can appear to have a phone number with any area code they want.
They use an answering service/mail drop in New York, basically a "virtual office" run by a company called Regus.
http://www.regus.com/locations/virtual-office ... rysler-building
They aren't there, just pretending to be in the US to appear more credible.
These fraudulent "business directory" scams are usually based in Montreal, Canada, but some use Indian or Pakistani call centers.
No chance they are going to damage your credit.
If they trashed the personal credit files of your business owners, they would expose themselves to federal FCRA lawsuits, which allow courts to award damages and your attorney fees. They have been carefully "mining" this little "business debt" racket specifically to stay away from that risk, avoiding FDCPA lawsuits they ran into when they used to collect on shady "payday loans" several years ago.
The company claims the bill is for a listing on US Public Yellow Pages, but businesses maintain they never ordered the listing. The bottom of each invoice reads "Payment is due 28 days upon receipt. A service charge of 3% is applied to past due amounts." Businesses also report receiving past due invoices reflecting past due amounts.
US Public Yellow Pages responds to their customers with a recording of the customer authorizing the $599.99 services. Many businesses claim these recordings are doctored and claim they never ordered the billed services.
Businesses request that U.S. Public Yellow Pages cancel the alleged services and cease contact.
Nathan Forbes is the Owner. These people have stolen from me. It is so sad that I found out too late. My Credit Card Company will not even help me because I paid the bill because this company used duress and threats if I didn't pay my bill. So being responsible I paid it. The lady was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO rude and threatened to tell me that she would send me to collections and "RUIN" my credit. I was under so much stress at the time I paid it but it kept bothering me and knew there was no way I had bought this service so I started to research this company and was disgusted to find out all of this. Please do not pay your bill whatever you do this is a scam. Call the BBB first!