World Business List?

[GTP]

Anyone heard of this mob? Very professional sending a .jpg of the form. No .pdf?
My thoughts are its a data mining scam.

I received an email today:

Dear registrant of domain barcelonacomputers.com.au,

In order to have your company(ies) inserted in
the registry of General Businesses for the
2020/2021 edition; please print and complete
the attached document (wbl-F20.jpg) and send it
to this address:

World-Business-List
Postbox 34
3700 AA Zeist
Holland

Fax: +31 30 310 0126
or email it to the email address mentioned on the form.

Updating is free of charge!

This form can also be used for your other
domain(s) and/or business(es).

 

[thecomputerguy]

I signed up with them and shortly after they offered myself (sir or madam), a kindly business offer, all I had to do was send them about $1000 and they'd send me $12,000 and a free wife via western union.

 

[Mick]

What would you want to be on this list (if it exists) for anyway? Ask if you can have a look at the current edition before you make your mind up. That should shut them up.

 

[mdownes]

I’m sure I read warnings about something like this in the media a while back. The form looks innocent enough, but hidden in the small print, you’re committing to a significant fee. They have successfully sued businesses for this. When I get those, usually in the post, they go in the recycling bin.

 

[Diggs]

995 euros annually for a minimum of three years with auto renews. Cancellations must be certified post with no address available. Heh........

 

[GTP]

I think what scares me more is that once they have a signature - along with the other details- they could possibly forge all kinds of documents.
I smelled scam immediately and have no intention of replying.
It was posted here as information only.

 

[Markverhyden]

Scams like this are as old as the mail service itself. Long before the Internet I used to get mailings about "professional" directories because I belonged to a couple of industry related professional organizations. As soon as I registered my DBA here I was getting similar mailing about how I had been selected as "10 Best".

 

[GTP]

Scams like this are as old as the mail service itself. Long before the Internet I used to get mailings about "professional" directories because I belonged to a couple of industry related professional organizations. As soon as I registered my DBA here I was getting similar mailing about how I had been selected as "10 Best".

Long before the internet and email, I can still remember when my father got an "invitation" to make lots of money.
The scammer asked for £1 (pre decimal Australian money) to be sent to an address for the instructions on how to become wealthy virtually overnight.
So my father sent the money and got a letter back saying "Just do what I'm doing. Ask people to send you a pound".
I dont think my Mother ever let him live that down!

 

[mraikes]

Long before the internet and email, I can still remember when my father got an "invitation" to make lots of money.
The scammer asked for £1 (pre decimal Australian money) to be sent to an address for the instructions on how to become wealthy virtually overnight.
So my father sent the money and got a letter back saying "Just do what I'm doing. Ask people to send you a pound".
I dont think my Mother ever let him live that down!

Huh. I'm not sure I'd even call this a scam. Just clever. And funny. Truthful even!