I just got called by another TPS-ignoring baby-eating evil telemarketing sales company – it must be my lucky month. Picking up the phone and answering to find musak playing I thought I might be in for the deal of a lifetime, or maybe an offer that was too good to refuse, so I grabbed a [...]

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen complete mindless determination in the face of utterly overwhelming odds, but Satellite Direct have shown a lack of comprehension that is quite staggering in their recent marketing campaign. Today, they have raised the bar of ineptitude.

I just got another call from Satellite Direct UK telling me that my Sky warranty needs renewing. Oddly enough, nothing has changed since their last call. We are still registered with the TPS so it’s unlawful for them to phone us and we still don’t have a Sky box, so it’s definitely not out of [...]

We just got a telemarketing call. Regular readers will know we’re registered with the TPS, so such calls are unlawful. The call went like this…

It’s now a year year since I received “that phonecall” from Ameri-vacations, congratulating me, and falsely proclaiming that I’d won a holiday, and hit the proverbial jackpot.

Lots of the Ameri-vacation “clone” websites (the ones with eerily similar content which appear to be connnected with messers Rajan / Hemani / Jessani / Rehmatullah) have “disappeared”.

Several weeks ago I met Justin Hendiks, a reporter for Dutch TV programme Opgelicht. He’s been researching the unsolicited phone calls that Dutch citizens have been receiving over the last few months.

Dutch television program Opgelicht (aka “Conned”) is conducting an investigation into the unreasonable telesales practices that I’ve previously discussed on this site.

All over he world tourist venues are rarely at 100% occupancy, there is usually one high season per year, and the rest of the time there are empty rooms in hotels, empty seats at shows, empty spaces on ski lifts, spare snorkels, etc. From Florida to Felixtowe, there are vacancies.

A big thanks to both Bobby and Peter D for pointing this story by Orlando Sentinel staff writer Richard Burnett. It looks like holiday scam outfit AmeriVacation will have their day in court! Congratulations to everyone who complained – hopefully this will help expedite your refunds.

Several people have emailed me, or left messages asking for help in getting a refund from Florida based holiday companies (such as AmeriVacation, YourVIPTravel, etc), either because they have bought in haste, or feel they have been misguided by the sales person. In this article I hope to condense all the comments from other stories [...]

Two months ago I wrote a short article about a telemarketing call that I received from AmeriVacation. It has very quickly become one of the most viewed pages on this site, and also the most commented upon, by many people who are worried that they have been conned. With just a little digging I’ve started [...]

I just got a wonderful telemarketing call …

since i’d not heard back from your communications ltd, i called again. and spoke to sam who told me that he couldn’t see that any details had been added to the incident.

DougP on the travel forum has received a message to the tune that the scammers have had their wires cut. I’ve not heard anything from Your Communications yet (which is surprising since it’s now 11 days since my call and they gave me an incident number without my asking – not exactly swept under the [...]

Rory just called back to take a few more details and gave me an incident reference number 154476.

I just called Your Communications Ltd’s freefone number (UK 0800 195 9000) – and spoke to Rory in the network support group. Rory was very helpful and will be passing the information I supplied on to the customer account manager he also informed me that their client has purchased a block of 100 numbers, and [...]

this morning i was called by a “jonathan simmonds” of “cruise connection” who suggested that i had won a mediterranean cruise. and that this was, in fact, a genuine offer. yeah, right.