White Van Man Scam - another one

Ben123456789

This scam is still happening, my parents handed over £120 for a 'Memory Dreams' mattress, bed and head board. The sticker on the mattress says RRP £899, the man knocked at their door and started at £400. The bed looks prettty cheap on close inspection and the mattress is fine until you lie on it. i would say the lot is worth less than £100. It is a well organised scam they print stickers which they attach to the mattress and they even have a dodgy website, 'memorydreams .co.uk' . i have since heard of a number of other people in Cornwall falling for the same scam and handing over more cash. Does anyone know if it is an on going case or does it need reporting?

Pinkypants

Very clever have a website with products showing a massive RRP and then sell them really cheap. Wonder why no one else has ever thought of this??

Coopdivi

The website doesn't actually sell anything though, Pinkypants. There's just a few pretty photographs and not much else: no contact address or phone number, no prices and the address on the Domain Registration has been faked complete with a non existent post code.

http://whois.domaintools.com/memorydreams.co.uk

JimmyTheWig

Coopdivi wrote: »

The website doesn't actually sell anything though, Pinkypants.

They've missed a trick there, then.
if the website shows the inflated prices, think how well they would so if they got a sale!

earthstorm

Coopdivi wrote: »

The website doesn't actually sell anything though, Pinkypants. There's just a few pretty photographs and not much else: no contact address or phone number, no prices and the address on the Domain Registration has been faked complete with a non existent post code.

http://whois.domaintools.com/memorydreams.co.uk

# well checking on Google maps the Postcode is Batley Enterprose Centre

but if you think it is false info then you can report to Nominet.

also some major retailers have sites that dont sell anything, nothing wrong with that

Jamie_Carter

Ben123456789 wrote: »

This scam is still happening, my parents handed over £120 for a 'Memory Dreams' mattress, bed and head board. The sticker on the mattress says RRP £899, the man knocked at their door and started at £400. The bed looks prettty cheap on close inspection and the mattress is fine until you lie on it. i would say the lot is worth less than £100. It is a well organised scam they print stickers which they attach to the mattress and they even have a dodgy website, 'memorydreams .co.uk' . i have since heard of a number of other people in Cornwall falling for the same scam and handing over more cash. Does anyone know if it is an on going case or does it need reporting?

Everyone should report it to trading standards each time they come across these scammers. The more people who report it, the more resources will be put into stopping them.

Jamie_Carter

Coopdivi wrote: »

The website doesn't actually sell anything though, Pinkypants. There's just a few pretty photographs and not much else: no contact address or phone number, no prices and the address on the Domain Registration has been faked complete with a non existent post code.

http://whois.domaintools.com/memorydreams.co.uk

Isn't there a way to report the site to nominet?

Jamie_Carter

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

They've missed a trick there, then.
if the website shows the inflated prices, think how well they would so if they got a sale!

The website is just to gain their victims confidence. It would be easier to track them down if they actually sold through the site.

Jamie_Carter

earthstorm wrote: »

# well checking on Google maps the Postcode is Batley Enterprose Centre

but if you think it is false info then you can report to Nominet.

also some major retailers have sites that dont sell anything, nothing wrong with that

There is if it's part of a scam.

earthstorm

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

There is if it's part of a scam.

selling something out of a van the last time i checked was not a scam. they may be selling something that is not a good quality but its not a scam, if selling low quality goods was a scam then we would not have stores like Poundland, 99p store etc. as they would all be closed down for selling low quality goods.

yes you could report the domain to Nominet at [EMAIL="nominet@nominet.org.uk"]nominet@nominet.org.uk[/EMAIL] or direct too [EMAIL="rachel.eales@nominet.org.uk"]rachel.eales@nominet.org.uk[/EMAIL]