I've just incorporated my ltd company this week. Keep an eye on for a letter from a Polish company asking for 390-590 and citing rubbish that you need to pay a lot of money for having your company name registered on the The European Register of Trade Names and Companies. I hope they get stuffed. People already complain about migrants, now this!
in various forms this has been around for a long time but of course it relies on a constant stream of people who are doing this for the first time so don't realise.
Nowdays I feel that the problem is actually worse in that it is now much easier to find information on new incorporations although, with such ease you would think that more people would be trying the same scam which when newstarts get a dozen different scam companies asking the same thing the requests would defeats themselves.
The other one that I'm seeing a lot of is companies getting bogus invoices for small(ish) amounts (£20 to £80 but never an exact number) for stationary supplies. Of course no stationary had been ordered and the scam is based on a good percentage of the businesses targeted having poor payment control systems.
Anyway, I don't have to worry as apparently a very distant resalive has died in Nigeria and I'm the sole beneficiary so all I have to do is send them all of my bank details and some security info to prove who I am and then I'll be rich.... lol.... Who falls for these things!
All the best,
Shaun.
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Hi Richard
Ive just warned a new client who incorporated a couple of days ago so thanks for posting this. Also - just have just made me giggle (Friday Fun) - have you seen the name of the poster on AWeb? Its a johnnyfartpants. Purile humour I know, but WHY oh WHY would anyone call themselves that, unless they do! Cheered my day up so double thanks
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Now that is a really good name for an accountancy practice: XY Beancounters and Fartpants
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I've just incorporated my ltd company this week. Keep an eye on for a letter from a Polish company asking for 390-590 and citing rubbish that you need to pay a lot of money for having your company name registered on the The European Register of Trade Names and Companies.
As Shaun says, this sort of thing has been around a long time - and it's not limited to company registrations: I registered a trademark a short while ago, for example, and during the process I received three 'pseudo-invoices' for registration in an unofficial European trademark database.
I call them 'pseudo-invoices' because, at first glance, a less clued-up and more gullible person could think they are. They're designed to look like invoices, but have text on them stating that they aren't and that they are just an invitation - paying the amount forms a contract, etc. There's also text on them explaining that the trademark database is unofficial and not connected with any proper trademark registry.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was enough to put them just about on the right side of the law, even though it really is just a scam. (I still have them - I intended to scan them and bung them up on one of my websites, but I haven't got around to it yet.)
Slightly more interestingly, two of them arrived before my trademark was published in the trademark journal.
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