The business i am in i see a lot of the internet related ones, so here is number one:
I can't remember the exact name of the company, but they were faxing everyone with a domain name saying the following type of thing.
"If you do not send a cheque for £200 to (company name) your domain name will be turned off, we accept no responsibility for the lost domain name"
A legitimate domain name company went down to the PO Box where people were sending the cheques and lo and behold there is no one ther, just a door and a letter box (and the building obviously
)This company apparently made 10 grand within the first month. The question is, are people just stupid?
Number 2:
An e-mail from a site called europa-club.com "searchengine".
The e-mail announces that the site address has changed (as if you knew about them already) and if you wish to add your URL, you can do this for free.
The "searchengine" is in fact a database, containing only URL's from unsuspecting URL owners and there is a large proportion
of links to porn sites.
Anyway, the entry is only free if you provide a backlink to your ownsite. The terms and conditions are "binding" and loaded totally infavour of the site. You then get an e-mail saying please confirm youhave submitted your URL otherwise it will be erased from their site.
Then, when you haven't confirmed, and there is no backlink, Herr
Peter Kurz sends you an invoice requesting payment of the EUR
equivalent of just under £100. You can protest all you like, but all
you get is reminders and an "urging fee", adding to the total bill.
