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Comment on European City Guide Scam by Paul Dumas

Paul Dumas — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:23:10 +0000

I have also had many letters over 2 years and 2 cd discs will never send money but yet to have any phone calls will tell them where to go if I do.

Comment on European City Guide Scam by Sheena

Sheena — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:43:46 +0000

I have recently written to my constituent MP Rt Hon Malcolm Bruce who passed my letter onto the European Minister and also Vince Cable. On the advice of the letter received from the European Minister and wrote to cancel the so called contract as before that I had not even acknowledged them. I have not yet heard back but am sure they will not have gone away.

Today I received a letter from Rt Hon Vince Cable which I can pass onto you David if you wishthey are all very aware of the scam but doesn’t look as if anything will be done about the scammers anytime soon.

Comment on European City Guide Scam by Carolyn Natale

Carolyn Natale — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:51:06 +0000

My husband owns a small barber shop and we have been targeted by these people. It has got to the stage where we have received legal action from them and although it is worrying we are determined they will not get any of our money! My husband did not realise what he was signing as we have a free advertising service in our area and he assumed it was similar. The amount they are asking is ridiculous and now realise they are targeting small businesses. I have taken the advice from the stopecg website which has been great,sending them emails to say I will not pay but they just send a patronizing reply! I will send a copy to my MEP. I cannot believe how many other people are in the same position as us.

Comment on #60 – Roaming free with the Huawei MiFi E585 by Nagaraj

Nagaraj — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:12:30 +0000

Thanks a ton for the tip.

Can we select a roaming operator manually in the device when roaming. We have Bridge Alliance operators who provide us a flat fee roaming option for selected roaming partners.

Comment on European City Guide Scam by Austin Back

Austin Back — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:01:18 +0000

I receieved a letter saying I could have a free listing in the guide, that was in Oct 2009, I was just literally going out of the door to hospital for a large operation so didn;t take too much notice, signed it and sent it back.I actually thought it was part of my Equine trade Directory which I am listed in and it was the Europeab version . Many months later, May 2010 to be recise, I received a bill and a cd neither of which I wanted.I wrote to them saying I wasn’t interested and wanted to cancel it, no I wasn’t allowed to apparently, I was getting worried as I don’t have the sort of money they wanted to pay for it.Then the letters started arriving, one after the other, it’s then I googled them and found out how people are being misled uinto signing these things, I felt very stupid as I am usually on the ball about scams but it cousght me out.
I had a phone call from Maria Rodriguez who is supposed to be the legal dept (yeah right) told her I knew it was a scam and p off.She rang back and snottily said I don;t think you are in any postion to hang up so then she got the really verbal, no more calls but today we have this :
Dear Sir,

We refer to our telephone conversation of this morning and we note with disappointment your inability to engage in professional dialogue and communication and failure to assume your legal, professional and contractual responsibilities.

Please note that you are definitely NOT in a position to interrupt the conversation by hanging up the phone and we would strongly advise that you should refrain from such a_ctions in the future with a view to avoiding further costs and complications.

Contractual law stipulates that inadvertent orders resulting out of prior negligent examination of commercial offers and agreements are the responsibility of the subscriber and this has been confirmed by jurisprudence. A legally binding signature on a document is an indication that the form has been read and understood and that the signatory wishes to confirm his agreement to the whole content of the document, i.e. to the order conditions as well.

All these a.m. points would be held against you in case of a legal procedure in Spain. If you consult a solicitor, he will confirm the situation as exposed above. Legal a_ction would certainly not be in your interest.

We thus give you this last chance to obtain an out of court solution and settle the amount of 2341,99 EUR until and no later than 03.02.2012nto our account. This would then terminate the order with immediate effect, payment being regarded for full and final.

In the negative, our mandate would force us to strongly advise our client to initiate legal proceedings in the place of jurisdiction that you agreed to, contained in the orders conditions, i.e. Valencia in Spain. This procedure will generate additional costs for you such as dunning fees, interests for delay and other juridical costs.

We believe that costly court proceedings are not in your interest and thus count on your cooperation to finally resolve this outstanding issue.

We anticipate that you will honour your contractual obligations to our company and settle your payment as soon as possible.

Yours faithfully

Maria Rodriguez

LEGAL DEPARTMENT
TELF.. 0034-682-363-681

Fax. 0034-901-667-198

e-mail: mr@recovery-office.com

Again, told her to bring it on, I’ll see them in court and to f off
Received yet another cd in the post the other day too which has gone in the bin.
If they want to waste their money it’s up to them.

unicornleather.co.uk

Comment on European City Guide Scam by Ola Fola-Johnson

Ola Fola-Johnson — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:42:46 +0000

I am not surprised that many companies in the UK have fallen for this appalling scam just as I fell for it. They have contacted me with several reminder letters to pay up or my company details would be passed to debt collectors. All I had done was shredded their junks and put them in the recycling bag!!! I will never pay them a dime. They are so deceptive and something needs to be done about them.

Comment on #217 – Lucozade Needed by Rachael

Rachael — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:01:49 +0000

sorry!! x

Comment on European City Guide Scam by Cath

Cath — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:18:51 +0000

This support is second to none when your having doubts….On Monday I had about 5-6 phone calls from a Mr Paul Frances AKA debt collector for ECG and today another 3 which I recorded, unfortunately I did come across very nervous but will not be feeling like this again as my advice from solicitor from Small Business Federation which I’m a member, advice is of what David has said on here, I will tell him if he calls again I’m reporting him to OFT for Harasment!!! They will never get a penny from me its so hard to digest that they actually get away with it and some people even loose money Lets stick together guys and not let this scum win or get any money out of other people.

Comment on European City Guide Scam by Nick

Nick — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:36:56 +0000

A week ago I receive a statement from ECG stating I now owed them 2 years worth of payments (some 200 Euros)
I cancelled this 2 years ago.
To-day I receive new copy of the guide and will no doubt get yet another demand.
The answer is to ignore them completly. Do not allow them to get to you emmotionally.
If you get any calls try to respond in a way that adversly effects there emotions, if you follow my drift!! No one likes the thought of there children, or themselves dying of C.

My pile of paper is getting bigger, my thoughts are that this all costs them something, so less profit for them. Keep it comming you scammers, I am happy to see any of your profit wasted.

Comment on European City Guide Scam by David Baldaro

David Baldaro — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:54:49 +0000

Here here Peter. Well said!