On the false advertising has already gained thousands of Polish companies and agencies that have sent the contract and found that free service that costs hundreds of euros per year.

It starts with the letter or e-mail, the sender encouraged to complete the registration form current data carried by the operator company or institution. Just send it by fax to the number given in the list, or send in the enclosed envelope to the data being brought into the company of hundreds of thousands of customers. “Advertising easy and most importantly, free” – encouraging records.

The small font on the contract

Stanislaw Zygadlo of Kielce’s proposal TokChem updates of their business in the Polish Register to receive mobile environment for several months. – I always threw the envelope. However, in October something tempted me. I thought that we have current data on the network, especially after all that was to be free – says a trader. However, a month later, Zygadlo got from the owner registry, the German company DAD Deutscher Adressdienst GmbH, an invoice for 958 euros. – Once again reviewed the contract, it is actually noticed that small print is written that this is the cost of publication. Yet on the home page was that the service is free – added Zygadlo.

The entrepreneur replied that he was giving the service and asks for removal from the register and the cancellation fee, but DAD representatives replied that there is no such possibility. – Then I began to look for information about this company. It turned out that in a similar situation like me in the past few years in Poland were hundreds if not thousands of companies, offices and even schools and libraries – he says.

- These records are no longer false real plague – says Mieczyslaw Wodzicki, an expert with the Conference of Private Employers. – Every day, calls to us even more than a dozen companies asking for help, he encouraged the vision of free advertising in the registry, guide or other list fell into the trap space charges – he adds.

The complaints relate to DAD German, Swiss NovaChannel AG (it proposes to place in the international tourist guide for businesses “TouristDirectory”), and Spanish European City Guide. Lawyer Olgierd Rudak on his blog and warned the Polish National Registry Company, a leading electronic register available at http://ogolnopolski-rejestr-firm.pl, twin similar to the original existing at Orf.pl, and for your service request 650 gold.

Recently become active in another company, which was the address of his office shall Slovakia. Endless Infinity LTD in an e-mail sent to Polish entrepreneurs also ensures that the firm Advertise for free.
Impunity for many years

- When I saw the e-mail me burst the blood, because at the end of the form there is little record that in signing him, the representative of the company agrees to charge an annual fee of 990 euros – says Paul Soproniuk with PR agencies neuron. And says that in a similar way a few years ago, cheated his mother, director of elementary school. – After entering the school to guide hostelach bills were coming for a few thousand. So then when I saw carbon paper scam, I decided to warn others before him on the website of the agency – Soproniuk added.

Defrauded by the biggest company, which said DAD is so much that the investigation in this case the prosecutor initiated in Szczecin. Has collected hundreds of complaints from people. The company’s activity also examined the prosecution had in Hamburg, but a few months ago the Germans said that crime does not exist, because in the absence of settlement payments are not DAD sues debtors and cease further action. – However, many traders scared letters from foreign law firms can be fooled and pay – says Mieczyslaw Wodzicki. The decision of the German prosecutor’s office is also in force for the Polish law enforcement officials, who had to release an investigation on the extortion money. Despite this, Stanislaw Zygadlo says it will submit a notice of an offense. – After all these deals continue to be sent to Poland and more companies can be deceived – the trader said.