A couple of newsagents contacted me last week about a “Yellow Pages” scam. They con you into thinking they are from the real Yellow Pages and that you owe money. It soon escalates and some business people feel enough pressure to send payment to make it go away. The scan is usually operated by people working overseas. Spam Laws has a bit to say about the Yellow Pages Scam. The BBC also published a report earlier this year.
Good basic advice: don’t sign anything without being sure of its authenticity, if something sounds too good to be true it probably is, the Yellow Pages operates in Australia and would never ask you to send money overseas, tell employees to be wary of scams – even from people offering to help the business for free.
Getting lots of telemarketing calls similar to this… naturally just hanging up. The junk fax’s are pretty hilarious how they get around copyright.. we’ve had two come through this week, one named Yellows Pages and the other Yellow Paeg. Something people could easily get conned into though.
Fax them back a sheet of black card.
About time junk faxers get to use some of their own toners and papers.