01616336003

Regarding the warning about Peter's reply, Old Mother Riley is right to be cautious, but I think Peter is genuine as he has joined the private Yahoo egroup which I have recently set up, and he has provided useful information to support other members' claims against Worldwide Marketing Solutions.  As a private egroup it is only open to members by invitation, in order to restrict access to genuine victims of this company.

If anyone would like further details about how to join the egroup then contact me at:

simon at officesoft dot freeserve dot co dot uk (written like that to try to prevent automatic email scrapers or whatever they're called from picking up my email address for spamming).

Simon

Happy to be wrong, in this case.

Just got caught by these people, they called yesterday stating they were Google. Paid £140.00 (£99 + £20 activation fee + VAT) for one month and 7 key phrases. Just realised tonight something may be wrong, when the listing never appeared today. Just phoned my credit card company to cancel, and will be in contact with the vendor dispute team in the morning. They called saying they were Google, James and Marvin are the account people "looking after us" all sounds a bit familiar!

They have called my business colleague too claiming to be from google and guarantee'ing first page listings.

Ryan Page was the name of the person that contacted us.

I I referred the matter to trading standards.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS...the services they offer can be done by yourself at a fraction of the costs they are charging.

Dear everyone. Like some of you, I was approached by this fraudster-laden company but I was lucky to put an immediate stop to my credit card as different signs showed me they are just professional frauds. To cut the long story short. I have reported to Panorama of BBC and I hope everyone of you will send your story there.

We all want to generate more business through the internet but unfortunately some of us had fallen prey to these scumbags. It's time to rid them out of their Den..

just a word of advice,

and i quote

"What they don't know is I have got recordings of some of the conversations"

if you never told the person you were recording the call, and you try to use this as evidence, you are in breach of the 'british telecomunications act of 1998' where it clearly states that you have to make the person on the phone aware within the forst minute of the call that you are recording it...

I work in telesales and have studdied the act. it will not stand. if you never made them aware.

Just a heads u mate..

just had a call from then and he spoke at length in how he can get me page 1 on google sounded abit strange so i asked him for his website then i ran a search of his site for reviews while im talking to him im glad i did as i know now its all a scam but its sounds good patter when they speak to you but i never fell for it  i hope other people see this site then they want fall for it either

had a call from them today and like the rest of us was taken in buy the good patter and sales that they have but once i was taking with him and the good promo tha he had for £99 and first page on google i was getting abit sceptical and i asked for his website once i looked at it i was impressed but like everything i do i search for reviews i was still talking with hime while i was doing this and once i found this site i read some of them i said no thank so what im trying to say always search the company before you had your details over iv been scammed before i never let it happen to me again but i do agree there has to be more done to stop these fraud companies the police or the other goverment companies should nail them to the wall.

the people working for wwms clearly know that they cant do it trust me on this one

i have had dealings with this comapny in the past
Danny Kay is the owner, They also own another company based in city centre manchester called double click which do the same thing. they use any online database to gain phone number i.e. yell.com, thompsons local, they also buy data from various sources. They have had in the past trading standards in, with regards to calling themselves Google.

I have also been scammed a few days ago and I am trying to figure out how to stop them taking the next payment as I can see this is what will happen next, have canciled my card but unsure if this is enough? Why does this happen?! If only I had seen this first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A relative of mine has been working for this company for 2 days THEY ARE AT MERIDIAN BUSINESS CENTRE !!! police were seen inside, he noticed it was a dodgy place and has since left if your on ashton rd heading towards oldhamlook to the left and up there are a set of double windows i think youll find they are in there, hope this helps.

Had to cancel my debit card today to try to prevent further unauthorised debits from my account and I've contacted Oldham Trading Standards to register my concerns. Would be happy to be part of a group to stop them!!!

After checking for my ad and realising I had been done, thank you to you all as then I founld this site!

I have stopped my debit card and have reported the transaction to the as fraud to my Bank who have made a refund into my account (Thank god) as they stated one amount and took another! We can not let people like this carry on scamming, I will be speaking to trading standards today, I have sent a letter saying I have not signed up to anything and that I want to end any agreement they think I have with them, as suggested by will be sending this by recorded post so I can be sure this whole issue is delt with once at for all and I have proof that I sent letter.

How can we all stop these guys from robbing others? Any ideas?

We have just had a call from them - this time Jason claimed to be from Facebook - asking for the owner of the business.

I told him I needed his credit card details as calls to the owner of the business are £1.50 per minute - he said he did not have his credit card with him.

I just hung up!

Too many of these chancers out there claiming to get you here there and everywhere!

I remember him calling a few weeks ago as well with the Facebook scam - saying how many people used Facebook to find business's.....   I don't think so!

i was csammed out of 140 quid them telling me they were google an promised fornt page advertising, i told them i didnt want it but said they are going to take money from my account, i have sen them a letter cancelling my account (what account) !!!! ive had no e-mails from them no corespondence whats so ever, theyre rippoff merchants and need stopping

Completely the same story. How to deal with them? They keep on taking my money!

I'm running a group that is helping members to take action against Worldwide Marketing Solutions Ltd in order to recover their money.  If anyone that has been scammed is interested in being part of this group then just email me at simon@officesoft.freeserve.co.uk

Regards,

Simon

Got a call from Lucy saying "I'm from Google" (lie No- 1) promised to advertise my business on google front page (lie no-2) the same day (lie no-3) for a one off fee of £99 (lie no-4) stupidly I fell for it and gave my bank details, then she told me there was an admin fee of £20. They took £139.83 inc. vat. If vat is to be added they should tell you, otherwise it is included in the price quoted.
I immediately realised I had been scammed and googled 01616336006 and found this site, this was 11/08/2010.
I am still not on google front page, or any other page that I am aware of and in spite of my emails and phone conversations they have not refunded my money and in fact have just taken another £116.33 from my account.
I have now been forced to close my account and cease trading, thanks to worldwide marketing solutions ltd.
My next course of action is to contact consumer direct and strongly urge anyone else who has been scammed by these lowlives to do the same. Good luck!

I was just rang by a company claiming to be Google but then said they were something else - probably worldwide marketing solutions - I didn't really listen because I knew the entire thing was cobblers.

He said in order to 'prove' they are who they say they are and can do what they say they can, he said he would put my company's details on the front page of Google for the next ten minutes, free of charge.  I'm sure any person who implicitly knows IT can get this set up in order to 'prove' their innocence when in fact they are beguiling, insidious people (ba****ds).

What gives these offers away is the fact they are, generally, £99.00 - anything over £100.00 and your credit card company will protect the amount for free under Section 75 law.

Just say No to anything like this - It's probably a scam.