Beware of "European Company Network 2015/2016" Scam from website "www.ecn-register.org"

Received this:

"Accounting Department <accounting@accounting-seo.com>

11:56 (Há 9 minutos)

para eu, info
Não sabe a razão pela qual esta mensagem se encontra na pasta Spam?

Denunciou esta mensagem como spam a partir da caixa de entrada.

Dear Sirs,

I have just tried to contact your company by telephone ( 351 962543217) but the call was rejected.

The reason I have called is to confirm that the invoice no. 216210 and our reminders have been received (we have sent them by email and regular post and no communication was received from your side in this regard).

The invoice covers the outstanding Editions for our register delivered on the basis of your 3 - year order dated 22/07/2016, contact person Mr Reinaldo Alves. This is the 3rd and final year of the contract.

Please contact us at your earliest to discuss your account.

Best regards,

Accounting Department"

Here is another scam:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
"From: EUBS / Ms Sophie <sophie@eubs-accounting.com>
Date: 2017-08-09 10:43 GMT 01:00
Subject: Due date for the Invoice no. 202782

To

We hereby inform you that the attached invoice, number 202782, charging your company’s profile insertion into our business register is now issued for payment (due date is 07/08/2017).

The invoice was posted via regular mail the day it was issued (10th of July, 2017) to []. Please confirm postage receipt and accuracy of postal address.

If this email’s recipient is not responsible with payment transfer, we appreciate the forward of message to the department in charge.

In case payment has been transferred by now, please send the proof of wire in reply, for noting the account timely settled.

Thank you for your time and cooperation.

Best regards,
Ms Sophie, Account Manager
Tel: 0031 208-080-789
Fax: 0031 205-248-107"

Hi again,

ENC have contacted us by telephone threatening us to take legal actions if we do not pay within a few days? Anyone had the same experience? Please advise. Hiding I believe will not solve the problem. We had made the mistake at the beginning. The essence is if they have legal grounds to take us to court. I would appreciate if someone would share their similar experience.

Regards,
Toni.

Received via email:

"Even I have been cheated by this "European Business Directory Network - Fradualent Company."

Initially they asked to fill in the Registration Form - Stating it is Free of charge and after receiving the FORM they generated an invoice which was not clarified before hand at all.

They have been repeatedly threatning me to pay my dues with penalty, If I won't they would initiate legal actions against me.

I have attached here with Communication Mails being received.

I would appreciate if you could help me regarding this matter.

Awaiting for your valuable suggestions.

Thanks

This is the latest from ECN as an answer to my e-mail to delete us from their database

"Dear хххх

Thank you for your reply.

According to the T&C which governs your company's request we have some procedures to follow.

First, the invoice no. 192211 - for delivered service - needs to be settled in order to take into consideration any other requests from your company.

Let me know when you are ready - as to start the above mentioned.

Best Regards,
Ms Angela
Account Manager"

On 11/9/2016 10:55 AM, хххх wrote:

"Dear Sir/Madam,

We have also attempted to contact you several times by e-mail to cancel our “alleged” order.

Again, we confirm that we cancel any form of order that you may consider and we insist that we are deleted from your database, if uploaded, as we strongly believe that we were tricked into what you consider an order for your services by the forms and the correspondence you sent. We have informed the Union of International Associations, and several other international authorities, as well as our domestic authorities about this cheap attempt to extort funds through such spam attempts.

We are instructing you to delete our company information from your site, if uploaded, and cancel any attempt to invoice us for any services that you may believe you are entitled to by misleading us to this venture.

Sincerely,
xxxx"

The European Companies Network is a sham. They ambush you with the words that they are compiling a register of European companies and would you like to be included. Unknown to you there is some small print at the bottom of the form to the effect that you are agreeing to be a subscriber to a network at a considerable cost.

This is theft and you should not allow yourself to be cheated . Resist at all costs to be lured into the quagmire

WE made the same not reading tiny letters .. just the huge one - free of chargé !!!
We are going to ignore it but also we are sending official letter with resignation, that we are not willing to be inserted to they network and we are not willing to pay for it.

I also make the same mistake. I filled out the form and sent it to them. I got an invoice asking me to pay. Should I ignore the invoice? DO they have any grounds to pursue legal actions against us?

Thanks.

The ECN scammers are also now using the domain eucompanynetwork.com and email address register@eucompanynetwork.com

This is what I've got today from the address (register@ecn-network.com):

"Dear Madam/Sir,
In order to have your company inserted in the European Company Network for 2016/2017,
please print, complete and submit the attached form (PDF file) to the following address:

EUROPEAN COMPANY NETWORK
P.O. BOX 34
3700 AA ZEIST
THE NETHERLANDS
Fax: 31 30 310 0126

You can also attach the completed form in a reply to this email.
Updating is free of charge!

If you believe you have received this email in error or you do not wish to receive further
communication from European Company Network, follow this link to unsubscribe from our delivery list."

Received via email:

"Got an email from the European Business Network with an attached PDF (which I scanned with two different scanners before opening). The PDF is a form to fill in information for a listing on the EBN website. BUT if you read the small print it says that you're subscribing to a listing service for three years at 995 euro per year and it will automatically renew. Here's the text:

THE SIGNING OF THIS DOCUMENT REPRESENTS THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS AND THE CONDITIONS STATED IN "THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR INSERTION" ON WEB PAGE
WWW.EUROPEANCOMPANYNETWORK.COM. THE SIGNING IS LEGALLY BINDING AND GIVES YOU THE RIGHT OF AN INSERTION IN THE ONLINE DATA BASE OF THE EUROPEAN COMPANY
NETWORK WHICH CAN BE ACCESSED VIA THE INTERNET, AND A CD ROM WITH WORLD BUSINESSES IS GRANTED, ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONTRACT CONDITIONS STATED IN "THE TERMS
AND CONDITIONS FOR INSERTION" ON WEB PAGE WWW.EUROPEAN COMPANY NETWORK.COM. THE VALIDATION TIME OF THE CONTRACT IS THREE YEARS AND STARTS ON THE EIGHTH DAY AFTER
SIGNING THE CONTRACT. THE INSERTION IS GRANTED AFTER SIGNING AND RECEIVING THIS DOCUMENT BY THE SERVICE PROVIDER. I HEREBY ORDER A SUBSCRIPTION WITH SERVICE PROVIDER
EU BUSINESS SERVICES LTD "EUROPEAN COMPANY NETWORK". I WILL HAVE AN INSERTION INTO ITS DATABASE FOR THREE YEARS. THE PRICE PER YEAR IS EURO 995. THE SUBSCRIPTION WILL BE
AUTOMATICALLY EXTENDED EVERY YEAR FOR ANOTHER YEAR, UNLESS SPECIFIC WRITTEN NOTICE IS RECEIVED BY THE SERVICE PROVIDER OR THE SUBSCRIBER TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE
EXPIRATION OF THE SUBSCRIPTION. YOUR DATA WILL BE RECORDED. THE PLACE OF JURISDICTION IN ANY DISPUTE ARISING IS THE SERVICE PROVIDER'S ADDRESS. THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE
SERVICE PROVIDER AND THE SUBSCRIBER IS GOVERNED BY THE CONDITIONS STATED IN" THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR INSERTION" ON WEB PAGE WWW.EUROPEANCOMPANYNETWORK.COM

This is the address whence it came: register@eubusiness.click"

I read through the fine print and saw the €995 yearly charge contracting for three years would be €2985. If this is a known scam or fraud, their IP address should be investigated and prosecuted for such fraud...

Hello,

I made a mistake - filled in, signed and emailed back the form to the European Company Network.today I received an invoice from them for a 3 year subscription (995 Euro per year).

I replied to them via email asking them to remove me from their database.