IF YOU ARE ONE OF THEM, pls DO NOT make any payment.
We are encouraging everyone who are scammed to make a police report.
I am going to go to the police too.
This is the pro-forma invoice i just received demanding for payment.
Last June, i received a letter that looked like from ACRA. I lost that letter because I believed that it was from ACRA. Stating that, "This is the last chance to register your company" otherwise your company will not be recorded.
That letter was for my mother's company, i remember mentioning that it's strange how come my company did not receive the same letter even though my company is also registered with ACRA. However, there was a deadline on the letter so we registered for my mother's company anyway.
This is the current view of the website (i am not sure if it looked the same). There was no where on the website that says that there will be cost incurred or any particular services provided that need to make payment for. From last June, we heard nothing from them etc and we just thought ACRA wanted us to register our company onto some portal where its like a directory etc.
Till yesterday, we received this letter pro-forma invoice 'demanding' for a payment of $490 with a 8% interest if amount is not paid.
When i called into their hotline number stated on the letter, staff was rude and unhelpful.
Me: "i did not sign up for any services from their company"
staff: "we have evidence that you sign up so you will need to pay for the invoice"
Me: "if i did sign up for the services in June, why are you only sending out the invoice now?"
staff" "yes we have evident that you sign up so you need to pay"
Me: "but i did not use any of the services"
staff: "you can sign in and start using now"
Me: "i don't even have a username or password etc"
staff: "you just click on the forget password and they will send you a new password"
Me: "i don't need hosting or website services, can i terminate this?"
staff: "you still have to sign in to terminate, by clicking on the forget password. But pls note that you still need to pay for the outstanding"
Me: -.- "i did not use any services at all, can it be waived?"
staff: "sorry there's nothing i can do for you. Pls note you will still need to pay the outstanding"
Me: "can you get someone with authority to speck to me?"
staff: "there's no one with authority around now, i will get them to call you back by tmr"
Me: "ok make sure they call me by tmr. who am i speaking to?"
staff: "my name is Robert Jack. So are you going to make the payment?"
ME: -.-'''' "i'll see when the person call me"
Searching online for help and more background about this company, i realised that ACRA had filed 78 charges against this company on the 24th Jan 2014. After over two thousand companies complained about this "Company register / Data register pte ltd" since Nov 2013. Case is still under investigation in court. There no report of new cases between feb 2014 to nov 2014.
In between, they had changed their company logo and address. New cases have been reported since mid of dec 2014. More cases are still surfacing.
Let's work together to bring down these companies set up just to scam people!
