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Post by manor5 on May 11, 2005 7:13:28 GMT
What does Vitamail actually offer for sale? I haven't seen any of their mailings Vitamail is a mail order homeopathic enterprise. They operate from a PO box in Bedford - there is no telephone number. They also have a return address to a depot 9 Trident Way Southall - which I can find no telephone number for also. Yvonne
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Post by Kevin Harrington on May 11, 2005 22:37:05 GMT
Vitamail MK41 9XP - Padeol (MK41 9JW, but suspect that MK41 9xx in Bedford is all their PO Boxes?), as used by Eva Du Maurier (Solen - 9XW), Solena (Maja - 9XW), Zoltana (Maja - 9XW), Angelvida (SL - 9XW), Evastrella (9XW), Laetitia de Lavallo (Golden Esoteric Society - 9XW), Mr Kuang C Wang jr (9WJ), Hanna Winter (9WJ)
There are also plenty of MK40 nxx post codes to PO Boxes in Bedford used by scammers which are also Padeol's. Does Padeol have ANY non-scamming customers?
9 Trident Way, Southall UB18 7FR, England is the UK depot for Spring, formerly TNT, a consortium of Royal Mail, the dutch postal company, and Singapore Post. tel: +44 (0)20 8574 1414 (0208 574 1414 within the UK) Fax: +44 (0)20 8893 5380 (0208 893 5380)
The following are also addresses used by scammers. 1040 HD (and other letters) Amsterdam is the Post Office building, not an area. Undelivered Items, Postbus 75831, 1118 ZZ Schiphol 158 Dukes Road, Acton, London W3 0SL, England (This address is a former factory, now divided up into a number of smaller units, names of none of the users are yet identified.) PO Box 357, Staines TW18 1YD, England PO Box 58194, 1040 HD Amsterdam Comprador, Postbus 202, 2150 AE Nieuw-Vennep
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beachhutman
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I also blog about some scams at www.20six.co.uk/beachhutman
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Post by beachhutman on May 16, 2005 8:29:50 GMT
I feel these good people sould be told of the compnay they are keeping!
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Post by eirian on May 18, 2005 14:15:27 GMT
I got a catalogue today, from Best of...! Thought I'd check it out, it looks much like the TV Direct/Just4You operation. Full of stuff that nobody actually needs; or ordinary stuff at inflated prices. And using a £10,000 prize as a carrot
It is very suspicious. The address is actually Mailfast at PO Box 66 Hounslow. I wonder if the OFT should be told?
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Post by Kevin Harrington on May 20, 2005 19:09:26 GMT
I have a Best of... catalogue as well.
The undelivered address is FR134755 at 9 Trident Way, suggests a French connection.
Reading the TERMS and CONDITIONS reveals Game TC105. Most prizes are £1 money-off vouchers, predrawn prizewinners.
The FREE GIFT (if you order £25 worth of goods) flyer contains the code: 9934-MMC(Marketlink Marketing Communications?)2505-2525-6505-Best of
No proper postal address, no VAT registration number, and no telephone number.
Is this outfit TV Direct Distribution under another name?
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Post by sceptic on May 23, 2005 20:54:23 GMT
Sounds like standard scam as used by Eva Lorca (complaint still with the ASA - awaiting results from the European equiv) & others: looks like you've already won the prize if you read the page, but only on careful reading can the subtlties of the reality actually be seen - it really says "IF you're the winner", not "You're the winner".
There is only 1 prize winner with lots of "runner up" prizes usually in the form of money off vouchers to be redeemed against further purchases.
Also, careful reading of the conditions will also prove it's a draw, not a certainty - though one did have a rather interesting typo, it said: "Only entries received during the proscribed(sic) period would be valid..." To Proscribe is to BAN. Thus it said only those received in the banned period would be valid - the opposite of another rule which said the entries must be received with a certain period to be valid. (They obviously meant prescribed, but it's not what they wrote. But then again, another rule says that they can cancel the competition at any time without redress to the participants due to exceptional circumstances. Would this typo be one of those circumstances?)
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Post by manor5 on May 27, 2005 11:55:34 GMT
Vitamail - I was told I was a Big Prize winner and I would receive 2 cheques. I did, yesterday, one a voucher for £1 to be returned to Vitamail and a cheque would be issued for that amount, and another voucher for £10 provided you placed an order for £100. I think Vitamail should be reported to the Ombudsman and Trading Standards. So, people beware of Vitamail - they're conmen/women
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Post by sceptic on May 29, 2005 13:43:21 GMT
Try complaining yourself at the ASA website: www.asab.org.uk/asaI did that last year with reference to a mailing I received for my deceased mother from the BRPG (**mug_numb/EU53/RUG1) called "Payment of £15,000.00 by cheque in your name". They then contacted my requesting the originals (along with original envelopes - everything in the mailing) to them. This I did, and sent a further 4 similar such non-obvious draw letters: **mug_numb-EU31-RUF+ (Emilie Paul - "Congratulations you have just won £1,000 a month for 12 months") **mug_numb/EU33/RUEE (Olivia Roy - "A superb cheque for £10,000") FUH8-mug_numb-EU35 (Olivia Roy - "Statement of Prize Award") mug_numb-EU49-FUT1 (Official Claims Centre - "Payment of £4,500.00 cash into your account!") I included a detail explaination of the faults and deceptions I felt were exhibited by them: in the layout of the "main" page which contained the implication of certainly getting the money, to contradictions between that page and the rules, and contradictions in the rules themselves. (It is this "A Superb cheque for £10,000" competition that contains the wonderful typo I have previously mentioned. Here's my comment to the ASA: All the rules state is a closing date (of 31/12/2004 - rule 1) and that the reply voucher be returned "within the proscribed {sic} time limit." Why would the entry voucher have to be returned within the forbidden time period? And more to the point, what does this mean: the reply has got to be not within the required time period, ie it mustn't be before the closing date? (The correct adjective of the verb "to proscribe" is "proscriptive", though I think they mean "prescribed"; "required" would be a much better word to use.) The last reply I had from them was 31 Dec 2004 in which I was infored that as the mailings originated in Switzerland, the complaint has been passed onto the CSL (the Swiss equivalent of the ASA). They also state that cross-border referrals can take some time to resolve and they will recontact me once they have heard from the CSL.
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Post by Kevin Harrington on Jan 29, 2008 19:55:52 GMT
Due to an inexplicable glitch on this message board, the views counter has gone wrong. Please add 6,000 to the total for this topic only. The others are fine.
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Post by matthew on Feb 7, 2008 16:56:30 GMT
Hello, I've started receiving a number of these letters myself now...mainly psychics and a few supposed 'prize win' and 'diet pill' mailings. Almost all of them say on the back of the envelope that it should be returned to 'IDEE' in Slough if undeliverable. I wonder if Kevin or anyone else on here knows anything about 'Idee'? I typed in the Idee postcode into the Royal Mail website address search and it comes up as being 'Royal Mail Switzerland International Centre' in Slough. This has me wondering whether Royal Mail have set up their own type of HQ for processing all these scam mailings which come from Switzerland? Any ideas, thoughts or information? I can't seem to find anything online about Idee. Some of the following use Idee as their 'undeliverable' return address: Marie de Fortune, Angele and Angelina, Madame Soleil.
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Post by Kevin Harrington on Feb 7, 2008 22:25:57 GMT
IDEE was mentioned by sceptic in the Change of address thread. It seems to be just another form of PO Box system, without actually looking like one to the punter.
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Post by moondreamcatcher on Apr 6, 2008 20:03:34 GMT
Hi Kevin Just thought I would let you know about a recent magazine I bought I thought it was just the normal weekly rubbish but it was a magazine called chat fate. When I Opened it there was as bold as brass Maria duval. So I wrote to the editor and told her about the amount of fraudsters like Maria Duval and she wrote back and apologised and promised to check out better before accepting adverts. Yeah. Just another thing for all you people out there who are inundated with letters, When you are presented with an envelope from them just stuff it as full as you can with any other junk mail you have received and post it to them. This works with any junk mail you get you will look forward to getting it just so that you can re direct it. Just make sure your address isnt on it Take care xxxx Moondreamcatcher
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Post by Kevin Harrington on Apr 11, 2008 11:37:11 GMT
Thank you for the information, Moondreamcatcher. Can you tell me where you bought the magazine, and any other details as I haven't found it on Google yet.
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Post by Adrian on Dec 17, 2015 21:38:23 GMT
Over the past 9 months I've received loads of postal scams:
Vital Nature, Box 10, 145-149 Kilmarnock Road, Glasgow, Scotland, G41 3JA.
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Biovad, Greenford, Middlesex UB18 7FR.
(Apparently I have won £40,000+ even though I didn't enter a competition! I will receive this money if only I order from their catalogue).
Walter B. Honorus (Clairvoyant - Medium - Grand Master of Occultism), Langebrogade 5, 1411 Copenhagen, Denmark.
(7 of my wishes will come true including Love, Luck and Happiness and a £400,000 win on the Lottery within 7 days (!) after I order Mr Honorus's "7 Miraculous Shields" for £175)
Giuseppe (Pippo) di Fortunato (Grand Master of Occultism), Postbus 107, Hughersluys 27, 4530 AC Terneuzen, Netherlands.
(I will receive £1,350,000 if I order Mr di Fortunato's "Safeguard Shield" for £15)
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Post by Adrian on Dec 17, 2015 22:02:38 GMT
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