Ovivo email received is this a scam?

Patsy111

I have just received and email and it says its from Ovivo. It was routed to my junk folder. I notice it has some attachments. I am reluctant to open them in case this is a scam and some virus infects my computer. has anyone received the same mail and is it authentic? I have copied and pasted some of it The forum firewall would not let me copy all of it ( I had removed the links)

Dear Sir/Madam

Please find attached copy letter and supporting documentation pertaining to the proposed liquidation of the above Company.

Further information can be found at xxx Kind Regards






Tel: 0208 442 0118
Fax: 0208 444 3400

blibbert

I also received this email. the PDF attachment isn't a virus but it isn't clear if it a scam or not. Essentially the PDF invites OVIVO's creditors to a meeting to vote on the companies debt at a Holiday Inn..

I forwarded it to OVIVO to see what they had to say about it. No response yet.

CKhalvashi

Ovivo doesn't appear to have been placed into administration, nor as far as I can see have any insolvency procedures been started.

Whilst Ovivo has shut down, until the directors request insolvency, there is little that can be done, and it certainly wouldn't be the case that a creditors meeting will take place until then.

CK

corf999

Seems legit to me. I was wondering when I would get contacted by the insolvency firm.

However that is only my feeling - I have no intention of getting involved in this for a tenner, my time simply isnt worth it.

Sensemaya

I've received it too straight into my junk mail. Interestingly the title has a spelling mistake:

Ovivo Molbile Communications Limited‏



Dear Sir/Madam

Please find attached copy letter and supporting documentation pertaining to the proposed liquidation of the above Company.

Further information can be found at the following link:-
http://aabrs.turnkeyinsolvencyservices.co.uk/aabrs-login.html
The username is: O0218
The password is: 49145359
Please note that given the number of potential creditors we are unable to assist via telephone enquiries. All queries should directed to [EMAIL="ovivomobile@aabrs.com"]ovivomobile@aabrs.com[/EMAIL] which will be monitored and creditor’s enquiries can be dealt with as time and resources will allow. Albeit, the majority of information will be contained within the body of the draft report available for download on the portal or contained in the Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) also contained on the portal.
At this juncture, given that there has not been a Liquidator appointed, we are not in a position to answer any enquiries with regards to the demise of the Company.
Kind Regards

Tel: 0208 442 0118
Fax: 0208 444 3400
Email: [EMAIL="ovivomobile@aabrs.com"]ovivomobile@aabrs.com[/EMAIL]

Could this be the same company?

http://www.turnkeyinsolvencyservices.biz/SiteControls/default.html

lean&mean

No, this looks genuine. The insolvency company has contacted all customers to ask if they want to lodge a claim. As there were about 70,000 of them at the time that Ovivo were shut off by their airtime provider the Insolvency company AABRS have used email.

There are some quite interesting docs on the download page, including the trading history of Ovivo. At the moment it looks as though they owe about £2.4million to investors and customers, with the customers being owed about £212k of that. As there is only about £84k left in the business I wouldn't hold your breath to get a refund!

Shame it went wrong. Judging by what the trading history doc says the failure seems to be down to the Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) who supplied the airtime as an aggregator from Vodafone. However, the MVNO continually failed to provide the customer data that they promised and that Ovivo needed to support their business model, which depended on targeted advertising. They kept on promising it to Ovivo but it never happened. Eventually the advertisers pulled out, so Ovivo couldn't pay the MVNO, who then pulled the plug, even though there was a meeting scheduled with the MVNO, Vodafone and Ovivo the next day.

If this is true then I hope Mr Zand, the founder of Ovivo, sues the MVNO. The industry desperately needed something new like this.

Maybe Zand will try a similar business again, but with more success. I hope so.

I feel sorry for the people who signed up in the last few months, who didn't get their money's worth and probably won't see it. I feel ok as I got internet for about 6 months for about 20 quid!

I've gone to Mobi-data.co.uk for my iPad sim, costing a fiver a month for one GB. I just hope their MVNO is not the same one that Ovivo used!

CKhalvashi

lean&mean wrote: »

No, this looks genuine. The insolvency company has contacted all customers to ask if they want to lodge a claim. As there were about 70,000 of them at the time that Ovivo were shut off by their airtime provider the Insolvency company AABRS have used email.

There are some quite interesting docs on the download page, including the trading history of Ovivo. At the moment it looks as though they owe about £2.4million to investors and customers, with the customers being owed about £212k of that. As there is only about £84k left in the business I wouldn't hold your breath to get a refund!

Shame it went wrong. Judging by what the trading history doc says the failure seems to be down to the Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) who supplied the airtime as an aggregator from Vodafone. However, the MVNO continually failed to provide the customer data that they promised and that Ovivo needed to support their business model, which depended on targeted advertising. They kept on promising it to Ovivo but it never happened. Eventually the advertisers pulled out, so Ovivo couldn't pay the MVNO, who then pulled the plug, even though there was a meeting scheduled with the MVNO, Vodafone and Ovivo the next day.

If this is true then I hope Mr Zand, the founder of Ovivo, sues the MVNO. The industry desperately needed something new like this.

Maybe Zand will try a similar business again, but with more success. I hope so.

I feel sorry for the people who signed up in the last few months, who didn't get their money's worth and probably won't see it. I feel ok as I got internet for about 6 months for about 20 quid!

I've gone to Mobi-data.co.uk for my iPad sim, costing a fiver a month for one GB. I just hope their MVNO is not the same one that Ovivo used!

I've delved further into the accounts tonight, and this seems to be a fair representation of what happened.

Still nothing on Gazette, but keep checking this link after, to see what appears in next few days.

CK

T1Cybernetic

Honestly I thought it was spam and deleted it

But then my other two recruits that I got sim cards for also got the same email which led me to do some research and brought me eventually here

I'll be keeping my eye on the news now for sure.

bubieyehyeh

It definitely looked a little scammy to me this email, I notice by comparing what people have posted and the email I've seen, that the username and password seems to be common to all emails.

The login url shown in text is different from the actually url if you hover over the link, so I guess the hidden url is a tracking link encoded so they know who has clicked on the link.

neil40

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/phones/2014/04/ovivo-closure-mse-reports-mobile-firm-to-authorities

blibbert

If I were aabrs.com I would be worried that the emails sent out by the company look almost as much like SPAM (and are detected as such) as the typical spam email offers to deposit a large some of money into my account if i click a link or hand over my name/address etc.