Attention! New fraud scheme.

At December 2013- January 2014 a VOIP market faced a new fraud scheme. Please read a description below and you will be able to protect your company.

A swindler buys old company (registered in 2008-2009). This company usually had no activity during several years. Another 3 - 4 companies might be registered to provide trade references for the main company and website created. The main goal is to create an impression of strong and valid company to get really good credit limit. In some cases even a D&B report can be provided. The only issue - VAT number and staff. They can use fake VAT number and don't have it at all (usually). So check carefully VAT number received, compare with records on official website and even contact your VAT officer in your region to doublecheck it if you have some doubts. Never give credit ref. to EU company with VAT issues, fake VAT number even if you have good references. Make add. check, ask for escalation list to see how many people work in office, call and try to speak to all of them (without prior notice) and double check the companies used for trade references.

We faced the situation when company gave good ref. on existing people in big Telecoms but... they are just friends and deep analysis has shown that this company (registered in 2008) has no telecom business on the market yet... Though references were quite good... but issue with VAT, no staff and empty escalation list didn't inspire confidence. We offered prepayment basis and company disappeared. During last 2 weeks we faced several similar situations...

As soon as a credit is be granted - it will be used within several days and after it all contact details of this company will become unaccessible and all phones - out of service. Moreover - you'll never be able to find real people because they will use names of previous owners and directors from registrations documents dated 2008-2009.

Please find below already known fraud companies with fake trade references (in many cases they use names or part of names of well-known companies but another e-mails):

"Vonage" (contact person -Tyler Cross-tyler@vonage.me.uk),
• Techeuronetwork (contact person -Simon Greer- s.greer@techeuronetwork.com),
• Yellowbusvoip (contact person -Martin Harrow-info@yellowbusvoip.info),
• Central Markets Comms (contact person -Tony Buckle -tony@centralmarketscomms.co.uk),
• Macraesolutions (contact person -Ricky Walker -ricky.macrae@linuxmail.org).

See below the information about ComputerDeal Ltd / Deal Telecoms (trade name):
Legal address: 24 High Street, Nottingham, NG11 6EA, United Kingdom
Website: http://www.dealtelecoms.co.uk/
IP address: 95.172.9.178
Contact person-Peter Taylor
Email address: petertaylor@dealtelecoms.co.uk

Name & Registered Office:
COMPUTERDEAL LIMITED
SUITE 3
24 HIGH STREET
RUDDINGTON
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
NG11 6EA
Company No. 07053211

Next fraud company:

CENTRAL MARKETS COMMS LTD
MOORINGS BOUGHTON HALL AVENUE
SEND
WOKING
SURREY
ENGLAND
GU23 7DD
Company No. 07826339
Office: + 44 (0)1483 905 230

Email: info@centralmarketscomms.co.uk

Previous company name - Glennlea Trading Limited

http://centralmarketscomms.co.uk/4.html
IP 109.109.243.162

Also:

Titanium Limited VoIP
10 Kenyon Street
Hockley
Birmingham
B18 6AR
0870-929-9999
0870-929-9998

info@titaniumlimited.me.uk

2) TerraSip VoIP
Portland House
Bressenden Place
Victoria
London
020 7869 8000

sales@terrasip.co.uk

3) FlowRoute Ltd + FlowRoute LLC

Address:
Flowroute, LLC
1221 2nd Ave Suite 330
Seattle, WA 98101
m.ballows@flowroute.info

Be very careful while checking new companies on the VOIP market, don't trust trade references of the companies which are not known on the market, with simple web-site without news for last several years, even if they are registered a long time ago. Also it is always a good idea to cross check a new company with your current business partners from the same area.