They are at it again. This morning I received a letter from the German based Internet Register Ireland inviting me to update t2′s listing on their site.’The long and the short of it is it will cost you the princely sum of €958 for this pleasure.
See blacknight’s blog for scanned letter
The internet register Ireland will hound you with letters threatening legal action if you fill in this form and return it without payment.
This scam has been around at least 3 years now. Find more info on the IIA blog
Just thought I’d add my name to the growing list of victims to this scam. We’re also a charitable organisation and have been misled by the original letter and information sent to us.
I filled the original form in and sent it away on 13th Jan this year. We then received an invoice from “Internet Register Ireland” a couple of weeks ago dated 7th April 2010.
I emailed the company on 26th April stating that I wanted our organisation deleted from their records with immediate effect, that we did not wish to be included on their advertisement and that we wanted to cancel the order/invoice.
I received a letter from DAD (Deutscher Adressdienst GmbH) on Friday last, basically stating that they could not comply with my request for immediate termination of our order, as it was confirmed by legally binding signature, attesting to “our agreement”!!! I am not an authorised signatory within our organisation.
From reading these blogs, I have emailed the Data Protection Commissioner and have contacted the Buyer Beware programme, hoping that I can get the advice they originally gave when the programme focused on these scammers a couple of years ago.
Apart from the above, I am now going to get on with doing an honest days work and ignore the future correspondence I presume I will recieve in the coming weeks and months.
Thanks all for your advice and sharing.
Maria