Send Nocash to Nodots

Businesses are being warned to be on their guard for letters containing an unsolicited invoice for £499 from an internet naming company called ‘Nodots’.

Lancashire Trading Standards are already receiving complaints about the Danish company who have been sending out letters to businesses throughout the country. The letters include an invoice and paying in slip for a service offering web registration for five similar names which allow internet users to find a company without knowing the correct internet address.

Although the covering letter states that if the recipient does not want the service they should disregard the invoice, in some cases the invoice has arrived on its own and could be mistakenly paid by a business.

Lancashire County Council’s Chief Trading Standards officer, Jim Potts, said:

“Whilst Nodots may not be breaking any legislation the sending of an unsolicited invoice for £499 may confuse businesses into thinking that they are obliged to pay the money.

“If businesses receive these invoices and they have not requested the service, then they should not pay.”

Notes for Editors
1) For more information contact Steven Brimble Principal Trading Standards Officer Tel 01772 533844
2) Copies of the invoice and letter can be faxed on request

For further information please contact: Martin Crabtree on 01772 533536
martin.crabtree@css.lancscc.gov.uk