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Complaint Review: International Directories Corporation - Winnipeg Manitoba
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International Directories Corporation
13B-360 Main Street, Suite 328 Winnipeg, R3C 3Z8 Manitoba, Canada
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International Directories Corporation On Behalf Of The National Printing & Publishing Directory Winnipeg Manitoba
It all begins with a fax, advertising a free listing in the National Printing and Publishing Directory, and can you confirm your company's information. The fine print states that although you want a free copy of the directory, you will have to pay $199 for your listing. But here's the catch: the fine print also says that if payment is not inluded when submitting the info (and how can we fax a check, ehh?) then it will be $249 for the listing.
That is the catch. They know that people cannot fax payments, so the scam is to get you to pay $249. Once you fax the information over, they send an invoice which is payable to the International Directories Corporation at 130 Church Street #365, NY, NY 10007. They even include on the invoice a copy of your signature from the original request to jog your memory I guess.
Well we paid the invoice, and I wouldn't have given this a 2nd thought, until I started receiving faxes stating that the invoice was past due. I checked with our bank and found that the check had been cashed, so I naturally wanted to contact their Accounts Receivable Dept. and clear the matter up. It's at this point I noticed there was no telephone number on the invoice, so I searched for the company in the Yellow Pages. After having no luck, I went to the coworker that originally requested the listing, and submitted the invoice for payment. She didn't have a contact number for the company either, and with the Yellow Pages turning up nothing, I decided to Google the company name.
Then I came across the rip off report website, and the report I read contained the same contact information and invoicing amounts as the company I was trying to find...which made me realize this was a scam. So I checked our accounting records for the past 7 years, and we have never paid this particular vendor before, nor do we have any previous issues of the directory.
This is a scam do not be a victim like my company!!
The frankel group
New York, New York
U.S.A.
That is the catch. They know that people cannot fax payments, so the scam is to get you to pay $249. Once you fax the information over, they send an invoice which is payable to the International Directories Corporation at 130 Church Street #365, NY, NY 10007. They even include on the invoice a copy of your signature from the original request to jog your memory I guess.
Well we paid the invoice, and I wouldn't have given this a 2nd thought, until I started receiving faxes stating that the invoice was past due. I checked with our bank and found that the check had been cashed, so I naturally wanted to contact their Accounts Receivable Dept. and clear the matter up. It's at this point I noticed there was no telephone number on the invoice, so I searched for the company in the Yellow Pages. After having no luck, I went to the coworker that originally requested the listing, and submitted the invoice for payment. She didn't have a contact number for the company either, and with the Yellow Pages turning up nothing, I decided to Google the company name.
Then I came across the rip off report website, and the report I read contained the same contact information and invoicing amounts as the company I was trying to find...which made me realize this was a scam. So I checked our accounting records for the past 7 years, and we have never paid this particular vendor before, nor do we have any previous issues of the directory.
This is a scam do not be a victim like my company!!
The frankel group
New York, New York
U.S.A.
