Watch your emails, faxes and snail mail…read them closely. They look legit, until you read the very fine print. The most current scheme that has been brought to our attention is from a company outside of the US trying to make us think they are the Real Yellow Pages.
Real Story…
One of our clients called us a few months back asking us to look over a letter he was faxed from a company that portrayed themselves as YellowPage-Florida. This letter looked legit and even had all of our client’s information on it that would be needed for a true yellow page ad listing. This fax was asking him for keywords and phrases for them to use in his yellow page ad with them. The instructions stated to look over the form and make whatever changes needed to be made and fax it back to them. At first glance, there was nothing in this fax that appeared suspicious. The only thing that caught our eye was very fine print at the bottom, where it stated that there would be an $89.00 per month charge for 2 years – just to submit his information to Google. Nothing else, just submit it. After reviewing the letter, I had advised him not to take action.
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