Is this email a scam using Yell.com

JenT

I recently took out two adverts on yell.com. I then received this email this morning;

Hi there, I called last week regarding
photography for our wedding. I was told that someone would call me back. I would appreciate if someone could assist me. Many Thanks Andy Cook. 07070274422/07040859754

Kind regards,

Yell.com

This has supposedly come via the messaging service that you can use from the yell.com site. I'm pretty sure that no one called my business asking about a wedding and not had their call returned and the 0707 and 0704 numbers are premium rate. It stinks to me of a con to get me to ring the premium number. Yell say they've not heard of anything like it before but has anyone here come across it?
Thanks!

Pinklady_3

Can you send them a message back via yell.com asking for a landline or mobile number? If you don't get a reply ignore the original message and forget about them, if they do send you a cheaper number then you can give them a ring.
The fact that there are two premium rate numbers does make it sound like a scam, ie you ring the first and hear a recorded message, then thinking you have the wrong number you call the second number and then they have taken your money twice.

JenT

You don't have the facility to reply to the message:

Please do NOT use your reply function to respond to this enquiry. This will send your response to Yell.com and NOT the user.

Please respond using the user's Email address or telephone number as provided above.

I'm certainly not phoning those two numbers, I just wondered if anyone else had had a similar email and to warn others to think twice.

trl002

it is a scam already called yell on it!

NickyBoy

This happened to us via yell last year. I reported it to yell but they weren't too interested.

If you're in doubt about the number you can check it here:

http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/consumers/ncd/default.asp

FWIW we have never received a legitimate enquiry by this method.