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Complaint Review: Leading Business Solutions - Philadelpia Pennsylvania
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Leading Business Solutions
8001 Castor Ave. #353 Philadelpia, 19152-2695 Pennsylvania, USA
Phone:
1 (888) 957-6362
Web:
lbspages.net
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Leading Business Solutions LBSPAGES.NET Scam for unsolicited web services Philadelpia Pennsylvania
I was contacted by someone saying that they had sent several invoices that were overdue. They claimed to have provided Search Engine Optimization for our business at a cost of $600.00. According to them, with interest, the amount had gone up to $957.95, but they would settle "Today Only" for $850.95.
Things sounded fishy:
They originally asked for a principal that had not been associated with the firm for 18 months.
They insisted they had sent 3 invoices since JANUARY 12, 2012, and a due date of JANUARY 12, 2013. I see all invoices presented to my company and had never seen them. Furthermore, we ad no file indicating we had a contract with them. I asked for a copy of the contract and was presented only with a copy of the supposed invoice. I said I would not pay anything unless they could produce a contract. They said their "Legal Department" would be in contact.
Further checking revealed several things. First, the business "Leading Business Solutions" could not be found on Google - pretty poor for a company that supposedly provides SEO. Second, when I entered their name with an address (from the "invoice") I found their website at www.lbspages.com. It was a very simplistic site that looked worse than the free sites you get fom web providers. Third, on their ABOUT page there was a grainy photo showing about 20 people captioned as their "Dedicated Search engine marketing techniques experts" I later found through Google images that the photo came from another, unrelated business.
Additionally, I checked the WhoIs and found that the site was created April, 2013 and runs for only a year!
All in all, this company is obviously a scam outfit trying to trick accounts payable people into paying for services they are convinced they overlooked.
STAY AWAY, better yet, report them to the BBB.
