Advertisng scam help

They need to get a county court judgement against you before they can request a warrant of execution.

Hi Rawhead, I wonder if the adverts you are supposed to have placed were for insertion in an emergency services booklet? The firm I work for was plagued by constant callers pretending to be working for either the police or other emergency services in the Manchester and Merseyside areas and insisting we had placed verbal orders for adverts in those booklets.

My firm paid one of their invoices when the callers became quite threatening but when I got involved, I had a look on the web (just google Advertising Scams Manchester - very interesting) and then told all those callers quite firmly we had not placed any verbal orders and we were not paying any further invoices and if they continued to harass and block our switchboard we would report them.

I then confirmed this by Recorded Delivery letter to the address on their invoices. We did not hear any more and the calls stopped. This goes back a year or so.

By the way, the invoices included VAT but not the VAT registration number; when I queried this I was given a VAT number that did not exist. I was also told that all their calls were recorded and they could prove that we had placed verbal orders but when I asked for a transcript, they were unable to supply it.

And as previous replies said, they cannot get a Warrant of Execution unless they have taken you to Court first and if they did issue proceedings (which I doubt they will) you would get a response pack with the Claim from the Courts giving you the opportunity to say that you do not owe anything. The Claim form should also have copies of those invoices attached.