Get a lawyer to send a cease and desist letter to the scamster. ![]() Lodge a charge of fraud with the police.Unless they were to voluntarily submit to our jurisdiction, which is unlikely, we would not be able to enforce the decision on their email communications, as we rely on our members and their members to enforce our decisions, and none of them have any control over that company’s email communications. But because they send them as mails, it is impossible for us to enforce any decisions, and so we have stopped making them. Our decision will not make them voluntarily stop sending misleading emails. In this case, it is an apparently criminal operation that sends emails directly from their own email. The problem for us is that our powers are limited – we can remove advertising when someone in the chain is a member or a stakeholder of the ARB. However, our decision has little to no effect on the company conducting business in this fraudulent manner. We have in the past made rulings stating that this type of practice starts with a misleading ad in the form of the email. The company then makes demand for payment, and threatens to take you to court if you do not pay. In the small print is a fee for the listing which 99% of viewers do not see. ![]() It takes the form of a contract that is made to look, it appears intentionally, like a form requesting information for a directory listing. This is a very widespread scam that we receive complaints about almost weekly. TAKE HEED OF THE SA DIRECTORY / WHITE PAGES SCAM
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