Just got this call today, nothing makes sense, you gave a service free for two years and we have to pay to cancel? I asked her to send me an email with the information, "we don't do email, we do everything by phone" in 2012!?!?!? . Lastly I go to the yellow pages website and don't see our info, I ask her what the site is, and she tells me yellowpagesonline.net, which has incorrect and outdated info.
I mean this could be a good scam, but it's not executed properly, anyone with an ounce of logic will catch on quickly. No one calls you to see if you want to cancel a subscription of any kind EVER and no one gives you two years of anything valuable "free". Hope people don't get caught up in this.
They called my business claiming they wanted to update my Yellowpageonline listing. I initially thought they were with a company I did actually have an online yellowpage ad with. Told him I wanted to cancel - claims I owe $599 because first year was free. That's when I knew it was a scam. You'd never get a year free upfront from ANY advertiser. He hung up when I started to question him. When I tried to call the number it was an invalid number.
yellowpagesonline.net calls every week (usually someone with a heavy accent) who is pushy and rude telling us we signed up for one year free and the next year at $500 ... We NEVER do any paid online advertising I tell them and then the rude arguing starts until I hang up-SCAMMING pieces of crap-
This number called twice today told me the same you owe for last 2 years $599. I told her I know we never authorized anything like this and wouldn't be paying. She then told me she would be passing my info onto corporate which I implored her to do so. I then googled the number after trying to call back to get "corporate's" phone number which just went to a busy tone. Glad I found this website! Oh and she also had an Indian accent not that automatically makes her a scammer but puts another nail in the coffin for me!!
I told the caller, since I did not give permission to list my company in the first place, that they owe me $10 for everyday my company was listed in their directory. They would not have a listing, had they not put me and other companies in their directory without permission, thus having my company listed in their directory was a service I provided them and they owe me money for that service. I asked for a billing address so I could send a 2 year bill for $10/day or $7300. They would not provide me an address and the caller hung up, saying they would refer this to their home office.