I received an invoice from a large UK-wide office products supplier
addressed to my limited company at its registered office. The invoice
amount is zero, as the goods were paid for in advance (a modest three
figure sum). However the delivery address shows my company name
followed by an address I have no knowledge about in a UK city with
which my company has no connection. Of course, this made me very
suspicious.

I called Companies House in Cardiff and checked that no change had
been made to the company details, and decided to follow the option on
their website and sent in a PR1 Opt-in form for their protected online
filing scheme.

I have e-mailed the supplier to disclaim any connection with the
delivery address and the supply they made. I confirmed this e-mail
with a formal letter with company heading.

What else might I do? Other companies may be making similar supplies
without my knowledge. And what about reference agencies, assuming that
someone is trying to establish a credit record for a "branch" of my
company at their address?

Many thanks for any advice.

Regards,

Dieter

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>I received an invoice from a large UK-wide office products supplier
> addressed to my limited company at its registered office. The invoice
> amount is zero, as the goods were paid for in advance (a modest three
> figure sum).

Yup. The fraudster's next move is to phone up and order four figures worth 
of stuff on credit for delivery to "our other office".

-- 
Tim Ward - posting as an individual unless otherwise clear
Brett Ward Limited - www.brettward.co.uk
Cambridge Accommodation Notice Board - www.brettward.co.uk/canb
Cambridge City Councillor

On 2 Oct, 20:45, "Tim Ward"  wrote:
>  wrote in message
>
> news:1191330677.144659.100320@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I received an invoice from a large UK-wide office products supplier
> > addressed to my limited company at its registered office. The invoice
> > amount is zero, as the goods were paid for in advance (a modest three
> > figure sum).
>
> Yup. The fraudster's next move is to phone up and order four figures worth
> of stuff on credit for delivery to "our other office".

That's what I figured.  Or, they could use this supplier for a
reference for credit with another supplier.  Perhaps they have already
used a reference from a smaller local supplier as a reference to this
national supplier, and I'm lucky something has finally "leaked out" to
my registered office!

Thanks for your reply.  It's seems pretty quiet here these days.  I'll
try a couple of other groups, and see if anyone has further ideas
about what I might do.

Regards,

Dieter

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:38:51 -0700, dsgerda@hotmail.com wrote:


>
>Thanks for your reply.  It's seems pretty quiet here these days.  I'll
>try a couple of other groups, and see if anyone has further ideas
>about what I might do.
>
>Regards,
>
>Dieter
Go to the police if you believe a fraud is being perpetrated.

Don

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> It's seems pretty quiet here these days.

Think we're all over at the PCG forums these days.

-- 
Tim Ward - posting as an individual unless otherwise clear
Brett Ward Limited - www.brettward.co.uk
Cambridge Accommodation Notice Board - www.brettward.co.uk/canb
Cambridge City Councillor