Be careful when you google cccs

wherediditallgo

Info is here .

To put links in your signature, you have to first contact the team via [EMAIL="abuse@moneysavingexpert.com"]abuse@moneysavingexpert.com[/EMAIL]. You need to tell them what links you want to include, & if someone already has the links in their sig that you want to use you can give their member name so that the team can look at it. Once your request has been approved, you'll then be put on the list of those with approved signatures on that same page (the list showing at the moment is out of date because of the server problems).

However well-intentioned, people shouldn't put links in their signature without first getting permission. I've seen some people with links who aren't on the approved list, & if too many people do it they might stop all of us doing it, which would reduce the speedy access to the companies that members have now.

fermi

wherediditallgo wrote: »

Info is here .

And our names our missing because it has been replaced by an older version after the server crash.

Larumbelle

Thanks, I already knew we were'nt allowed them without permission, just had no idea how to go about getting permission!

wherediditallgo

fermi wrote: »

And our names our missing because it has been replaced by an older version after the server crash.

I know - I've already reported it, as I don't people thinking we're including links without getting permission first.

ZTD

southernscouser wrote: »

Anyone got any idea how to complain to google? I looked at their 'contact us' sheet and was totally lost!

In short, they don't want you to contact them. I was going to tell them of a bug in their search engine, but couldn't find contact details.

Oh well - not my problem.

fermi

wherediditallgo wrote: »

I know - I've already reported it, as I don't people thinking we're including links without getting permission first.

That makes two reports then.

Larumbelle

I've requested a linked sig.

Does the adword complaint link I posted work?! You might need an adword account to view it, but I've got cookies I think.

MKDon

Oh dear it’s worse than originally thought…

Try a google on “National debtline”…you will find 3 sponsored links. One of them claims to give “free advice and guidance on UK debt”, when you get to the site (via the sponsored link of course ) You will notice that the format is remarkably similar to c-c-c-s.com, it even has the same freephone telephone number!!

A bit of a scan around the sites allows you to identify the company behind the sites and their CCA license number, guess what…they are both the same!! I bit more research and you can find lot more interesting information.

Now the even more worrying bit…google the freephone number and you will find that lots of webmasters have been mislead.

So far I’ve found 3 websites associated with this bunch all of which I regard as “misleading”.

Fermi, can you post the details of the correct way to complain to the OFT, CCCS & National Debtline. If by chance you have a template letter (top wordsmith!!), that would be great.

Finally, when doing my research, I made sure that I accessed these sites in the correct way, which is…via the google sponsored link Please ensure that you do the same!!

Larumbelle

Funny you should say that, MKDon, I've been doing the same myself, and urging (frankly rather bemused) friends and work colleagues to do the same.

I contacted the abuse team and they have allowed me to link to both of them in my sig, along with payplan. :T Maybe some of the other regulars could do the same?

PS) Could someone check that the links in my sig actually work? Ta muchly

MKDon

All 3 of your links worked fine for me :j :j :j