I received a very official looking form from the CROWN DATA COLLECTION ENFORCEMENT AGENCY this morning

Advising me that I was not registered

I checked my files and noticed the person responsible had left and indeed we were out of date

I was just about to fill out the forms when i thought lets just check the website I must be able to do this online

I spoke to Business Link Advisor and she warned me that this was a scam

so beware of CROWN DATA COLLECTION ENFORCEMENT AGENCY

Just emailed Trading Standards

heard this was a scam...

strange coencident though, that the person responsible had left and you were out of date.

Have been out of date for some time :eek:

Employee was a waste of space and we have just found yet another thing that he hadn't done

Phil

Most companies are out of date and don't fully understand the act - that's why the scam works so well

One of my friends has just told me he got the same request and he also discovered it is a Scam. They offer to register you for £95 when it costs you £65 to do it yourself. The address given was empty when it was checked with a load of uncashed cheques at the door. Sounds a bit "fly" to me!

Les

Just opened our mail at work and yep I have the CROWN DATA COLLECTION URGENT NOTICE too :rolleyes:

They even provided an addressed (not stamped) envelope to send your £95 fee back to them :eek:

Cheeky feckers - they'll be getting nowt from me :)

Thanks for the post :)

Yeah we've had a letter from these idiots too - I twigged it was a scam more or less straight away, but some bigger firms would probably just pay it without thinking. It's not just the 'Crown Data Protection Enforcement Agency' at it either. There's a few firms out there performing this scam. Click here for a list of the main offenders.

Just spoke to Trading Standards

They have been flooded with calls this morning on this one

Best place for it is the bin

Phil

My Dad recieved this too but realised it was a scam and reported it to Trading Standards. [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

We got ours a month ago ;)

It is worth the effort in reporting each case to Trading Standards, as they're trying to build a case for prosecuting them.