Another miserable clothing collection Regular readers will know the antipathy I hold for the scams that disguise themselves as clothing collections. Greeting me on the doormat was another such leaflet asking me to spare a thought for those who can't afford new clothes or shoes <sob, sob> and asking me to leave mine out so that these people could sell them on to the poor and needy for a handy markup (they didn't mention the markup bit). Anyway, the perps this time are: Polotex Ltd 131 NEASDEN LANE LONDON NW10 1PS Company No. 06240970 polotexltd@yahoo.com Who've been incorporated as a company for nearly 2 whole months now! There's heritage for you. If you've got stuff to give then I'd rather you gave it to a real charity rather than this lot. Let's face it, on Central Road there's more than enough choice of charity shops!!

29.6.07 19:49 Permalink / 10 Comments / comment

More clothing collection stuff A couple more clothing collection leaflets dropped through the front door at Brinkster Central this week, which are the first for a while. Let me say up front that if you have anything in your house you don't want then either give it to a registered charity or flog it on eBay and give the money to charity, don't let these people make money for themselves out of your old stuff. The first one doesn't claim to be curing cancer or anything and just asks for stuff  giving the company registration 05834199 and an email address of helpsupportltd@hotmail.com Companies House shows that being registered to: Name & Registered Office: HELP AND SUPPORT LIMITED 137 DOVER ROAD NORTHFLEET GRAVESEND DA11 1QX   The company was set up last June with no stated "Nature of Business" and no accounts to date (though none due). The next one is more up front and doesn't claim to be providing jobs and affordable clothing and just says that they want your stuff. It was from A&P COLLECTION Ltd with a company registration of 5769478 and email address of apcollectionltd@yahoo.co.uk Companies House provides the address of: A & P COLLECTION LTD 323 CHAPTER ROAD LONDON NW2 5ND but no further details, similar to the other one. Just to repeat what I said at the start, don't give these people your stuff!!

23.2.07 10:37 Permalink / 21 Comments / comment

OK, now I'm annoyed I'll start this off by saying that my preferred cancer charity is the Royal Marsden (Sutton) so if you're stuck for charity ideas then give them some time/money.  We got another charity scam flyer through the door but this one tries all of the tricks, while having no charity number or such like. As a starter it says "Clothing Collection For Breast Cancer Prevention Programm" (completer with typo) but after tha simple intro the serious manipulation gets going DO NOT DELAY For yourself and those who love you. Thanks for that. The whole flyer's full of this kind of stuff.... really not nice, particularly if you have any personal experience with it. They do give a phone number of 028 3084 9971, which I believe is Newry in Northern Ireland, but I haven't tried it. If you go to the website it redirects you to a website in Lithuania with even more sobbing rhetoric and their bank details so you can transfer your money to them. Anyway, here are their domain details (LT being Lithuania): Domain Name:DONOTDELAY.ORG Created On:18-Jul-2006 11:43:48 UTC Last Updated On:17-Sep-2006 03:46:39 UTC Expiration Date:18-Jul-2008 11:43:48 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:GKG.NET, INC. (Formerly GK Group L.L.C.) (R164-LROR) Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED Registrant ID:GKG-C00001184A Registrant Name:MicroLink Data Hostmaster Registrant Organization:UAB "MicroLink Data" Registrant Street1:A.Juozapaviciaus 6/2 Registrant City:Vilnius Registrant State/Province:- Registrant Postal Code:2005 Registrant Country:LT Registrant Phone:+370.52732656 The domain the website redirects to was registered anonymously by their ISP in Lithuania. I've found another good resource of scams and stuff at http://www.g6csy.net/spam/letterbox.html in case you need it.

6.11.06 13:28 Permalink / 1 Comment / comment

Stats and Latest annoying leaflets Oddly my stats for Weds and Thursday were great (when I didn't post anything) than when I posted last Saturday. Go figure. Thankyou to the lovely person in the NHS who seems to have my URL memorised or have me in their favourites! *mwah*  Seeing as my previous post on the subject gathered a number of punters from Google here's the info from the latest annoying 'please give us your clothes' leaflets. First one is registered to Raimundas Zemaitis and has the phone number 07800 961760. I haven't tried calling it but as he gave the company registration number I thought I'd look it up: Name & Registered Office: ISLAND OF HOPE LTD 70 WORSLEY ROAD LONDON E11 3JN Company No. 05086042 The website http://www.isleofhope.co.uk/ doesn't seem to go anywhere and the domain was registered in Lithuania. The second one goes uner the name PAJURYS LTD and comes up with the following details: PAJURYS LTD 5 KING EDWARD ROAD LEYTON LONDON E10 6LE Company No. 05482825 Last Return Made Up To: Next Return Due: 14/07/2006 OVERDUE pajuryss@yahoo.co.uk They seem to have been investigated by a newspaper when they were registered in Milton Keynes under the same number so have a few links in Google already. He didn't give a number otherwise I might phone him to tell him that his accounts are overdue at Companies House. I'm no linguist but a quick Google search for the word "pajurys" turned up a load of Lithuanian references too.... Don't get suckered people!!

28.7.06 18:18 Permalink / comment

Clothing scam? Do you get those annoying leaflets through the door made to look like requests to donate clothes to charity, except they're not charities....... I get them every once in a while and I'm getting bored of them so I thought I'd run the latest one past you to see what you think: It came through in the shape of a heart saying "We regularly donate children's homes and support charity organisations" giving the web address www.rootscompany.eu (which doesn't go anywhere). If you're fed up of them too then they put a phone number on it........ 07932095540   Name rootscompany Status REGISTERED Registered 11 May 2006 Last update 11 May 2006 12:32 Registrant Name Wątorek Andrzej Organisation Andrzej Wątorek Language Polish Address TORUNSKA 85 86-050 SOLEK KUJAWSKI Poland Phone +48.523667777 Email info@xxxl.nl

11.7.06 18:35 Permalink / 7 Comments / comment