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I'm sure I'm not the first to hear of this but for those who haven't:
I was contacted by a man selling advertisement space in a magazine claiming to be affiliated with the Emergency services, the spiel was that they would advertise you exclusively as a trade ie the only Electrician listed, in this publication which was distributed to various places and would promote you as part of the Safe Trader scheme
it sounds pretty good but I was suspicious from the outset as the call was from a mobile number.
He said there was no financial commitment until they had shown me the completed Advert ,so I asked for previous editions and other info to be emailed to me first
he agreed and asked would I agree to take the provisional place as it was a first come first serve thing, and could he get the publisher to give me a 20 second call to pencil me in for the place and confirm details.
I said I'd check the company out first before anything else (as it sounded fishy) and ended the call, 5 mins later this girl from Sigma publishing called on a landline (it was a call centre) and told me the call was to be recorded for training purposes etc
She went through my details ie address which they must have got from the NICEIC website, and tried to get me to agree to the ad unseen with the option of amending it only , I told her there was no chance I'd agree to anything over the phone and especially when details like the invoice dates were different to what he'd told me 5 mins earlier ,I said it sounded like a scam and wanted no part of it.
I googled it when I got home and there are numerous people and a Police authority stating that its a scam and not to get drawn in .
Anyway I text the blokes mobile thanking him for trying his con on me and offered to meet up if he's ever in the area!
Can the moderators let me know if I can post the blokes name and numbers I was called so that others may avoid this waste of time?.
I was contacted by a man selling advertisement space in a magazine claiming to be affiliated with the Emergency services, the spiel was that they would advertise you exclusively as a trade ie the only Electrician listed, in this publication which was distributed to various places and would promote you as part of the Safe Trader scheme
it sounds pretty good but I was suspicious from the outset as the call was from a mobile number.
He said there was no financial commitment until they had shown me the completed Advert ,so I asked for previous editions and other info to be emailed to me first
he agreed and asked would I agree to take the provisional place as it was a first come first serve thing, and could he get the publisher to give me a 20 second call to pencil me in for the place and confirm details.
I said I'd check the company out first before anything else (as it sounded fishy) and ended the call, 5 mins later this girl from Sigma publishing called on a landline (it was a call centre) and told me the call was to be recorded for training purposes etc
She went through my details ie address which they must have got from the NICEIC website, and tried to get me to agree to the ad unseen with the option of amending it only , I told her there was no chance I'd agree to anything over the phone and especially when details like the invoice dates were different to what he'd told me 5 mins earlier ,I said it sounded like a scam and wanted no part of it.
I googled it when I got home and there are numerous people and a Police authority stating that its a scam and not to get drawn in .
Anyway I text the blokes mobile thanking him for trying his con on me and offered to meet up if he's ever in the area!
Can the moderators let me know if I can post the blokes name and numbers I was called so that others may avoid this waste of time?.
