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Advertising - The "safety Awareness Journal"

I am a self employed carpet cleaner.

Just had a brief phone call from "Sarah" at the Safety awareness journal referring to our telephone conversation where apparantly I booked an advert. I denied this and asked for my purchase order number, to which she replied:

"Your purchase order will be out with the documents in the post tonight"

When I further denied booking any ads

She said "Ok I'll pass it to debt recovery" and hung up.

Needles to say the number she called from was witheld. Where do I stand with this?

Comments

  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    It's a scam to intimidate you. Keep you answers curt and if they try to press you to any debts or threaten court action then demand they prove it. They can't of you didn't agree to it, so will just threaten then give you up as not going to roll over.
  • JuneS
    JuneS Posts: 62 Forumite
    10 Posts
    I am a self employed carpet cleaner.

    Just had a brief phone call from "Sarah" at the Safety awareness journal referring to our telephone conversation where apparantly I booked an advert. I denied this and asked for my purchase order number, to which she replied:

    "Your purchase order will be out with the documents in the post tonight"

    When I further denied booking any ads

    She said "Ok I'll pass it to debt recovery" and hung up.

    Needles to say the number she called from was witheld. Where do I stand with this?

    Where do you stand?

    Well you probably lost about 2 minutes of your life you'll never get back speaking to "Sarah"

    Then you probably lost another 2-3 minutes of your life posting on MSE asking where you stand.

    Then I lost a perhaps 5 minutes of my life reading your post and responding. Who knows how many other MSEers are similarly affected? It could ultimately amoiunt to several man years lost, never to be recovered :eek:

    Have you even been sent an invoice yet? :huh:
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