Thanks, we received it today and the lack of phone number and only the fx number was a concern and you would think such a letter would be directed to the director by name,so into the WPB.
But for a brief moment we though gosh we are special..
Cheers

I am amazed that the scammers can get away with this and no one seems to think it is an issue. Sure it is obvious it is a scam but they must be getting some suckers to fall for it. Why can’t these scammers be tracked down and stopped. You would think the Who’s Who publishers would try and do something but after calling them you just get the response that the fax comes from overseas so can’t be stopped. What a lot of rubbish! A (02) fax number is being used so can’t Telstra block this!!

I too have recieved this fax… Mine was signed Jennifer Crowley, Editor. My main grievance is that tie fax number they sent it to is a PRIVATE home number and has absolutely no connection to a business at all. How many other mistakes have they made like that in their scamming spam.. Telstra can’t even find the business that my number has ever been connected to.

Thank’s for heads up… kinda obvious really (which led me to google it) given the non-existent contact details.
As for the name changing into Jenniffer Connor – I’m prepared to bet $20 that it morphes into Sara Connor next… then we can be sure the cyborgs have invaded.

These are my thoughts (but only that)…

…Bert.. I know they wouldnt care what our opinion is.. but … if a fax is only 20c to us, but several hours- if not days of getting return spam should certainly be a pain in the a@x%^ to them, and I only returned the paper they had already wasted!!

Also Alex, by responding WITH your personal information also helps scammers build an identity and adds to identity fraud… any one can verify a fax number in the phone book but if it correspondes with several other peices of information…. Also I believe your details can then be “sold” to other “marketers’ who can continue with bigger scams…Is that some where near right Steve??

Got this in the NT on the 16/11/09 Did a google search and got this page…
Spammers = Tossers !

Thanks for making people aware…

Hi Bob,
Thanks for pointing that out – I contacted Hill Street Meats to share the accumulated knowledge gathered here.

I am wondering does anyone know who sends this fax as I want to report them. I thought I had stopped these random faxes from coming to me…they waste paper, ink etc and make me totally pissed. Laurence

just received mine,im oh so lucky!geez im pissed at spammers,anyone know a site were the goverment can be lobbied before they pass the ruling on spam faxing.its now in the heap with the rest of them.

sic em laurence

Received this fax yesterday, it went in the recycle basket along with the other spam we received yesterday. The difference with this one was that it was from Office of Public Affairs, but again all details are available from our web page.

Also received yesterday – thanks for the heads-up!

So pleased to see other people’s egos got the better of them.
We too were contacted and alarm bells struct when we didn’t nominate ourselves.
One good thing out of it is – a lot of us are smarter then they give us credit for!!!

Received the same fax and with no contact name and looked it up in Google…. then shredded. It would have been so easy for the accounts clerk to have filled in the details and sent it back thinking that she had done a “good job” had I not been there. The pretention of the wording sounded alarm bells right away.

Re Fax scam
Now her name is Jennifer Conner!! Was nearly sucked in then thought Google would resolve my niggling suspicion – and it did. Knew someone once who was in Who’s Who and they were seriously famous in their field. Was nice to feel important for 5 minutes. Back to normality – c’est la vie.

I also received this fax yesterday, immediately thought “where’s the catch” and looked for a phone number to contact them for further details and cost of the listing…..there was none, so into the shredder…

Well, I was very special!!! I received 2!! The first one I ignored because I was just too busy to respond. Then I decided to throw it out. Then lo & behold, what should appear in my fax machine was another fax. At first, I thought it was the the one I ‘thought’ I threw out. Then I looked at the date the fax machine received the fax: 1 dec 09. So I did throw out the first one: I received in mid Nov [it sat in the fax machine for about 2 weeks]. Be prepared for more wasted paper & ink/toner.

Another slice of tree laying wasted in my fax tray.
Who would respond to such a vague and ego-stroking fax?
As many have said before me, so much for their “researched listings”… not having even a business name or further details?
Puh-lease.

Hi folks

Yes it was my turn today, gosh Jennifer Conner is a busy lady

I am tempted to fax them 100 pages back or leave their fax connected for 30 minutes or more so they run out of paper or memory on their fax machine.

Perhaps someone can think of something we can fax to them to stuff up their system or use up their ink/toner etc.

Yes folks it a jungle out there and it’s war!!!!

I knew this was not legit but we have 57 accommodation rooms and seems they have every single telephone extension listed as a fax number. Our guests are furious and there is no-way I can stop it apart from sending it to our printer every single time, if you hang up it keeps re-dialling. This has happened before with other companies but they at least have always had a fax back number or phone number to call. Aaarrggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

I’ve just been blessed with the scammy little fax myself.
You do get that little tingle of importance for a brief moment.
I guess that’s all it takes to get some people in.
It least it wasn’t a waste of paper for me as my fax reception is virtual and comes to me as an email.
I, like others, found this post via google.
Thanks Steve, it least we have somewhere to grumble, even if it isn’t to the perpetrators!

fax was directed at our landline – spent a busy few seconds swapping phone cable over to fax cable only to receive the Who’s Who scamming fax. I’m faxing it back with no details and a thankyou. Is there a “don’t fax me” service?

I got this fax spam/scam this afternoon, and is my first. I truly did believe every word for quite a while until i decided to do a quick google search to see who was listed last year. All i can say is thank god or should i say google, for this site. I’m now a little wiser about the world around me.

Rob,

P.S Sydney South West (Editor: Jennifer Conner)

thanks to all l just recieved the fax so l check it out on the web and found all of you comments
thanks you world wide web for highlighting the spam/scam

I love technology! I’m writing back with fake details to them. Mrs Minnie Mouse will do it!!!

If they can send crap to me i can send crap to them. Give it a go i say!!!

If not for your scam posting, I would have handed my credit cards details. they claim to be Stanford who’s who!!!!
Any one know who this organisation is? They are based in 15th floor, 410 Pare Ave, New York, NY-
the contact phone number I have been given is- 00 111 631 650 2140.

The platinum membership is now cost 818.95 us dollars.

Can someone please stop this scam before innocent people get ripped off during this festive season.

Thank you again.

Dear Steve
Thanks for this site. I received one of these faxes (2mins ago) and my immediate reaction is SCAM! To Brian Green (11/12/09) if this is legitimate and you are ‘marketing agressively’ why do you not have a legitimate letterhead with any of the legal business requirements eg. ABN; website address; postal address; phone number etc. Also why does the editor change her surname (mine was Crowley) if this is legitimate?
What I received alerts me to a SCAM not a legitimate business or at worst a business structure that may not have all the credentials..

Yeah Hi got one last week too – Sunshine Coast from Jennifer Conner Editor, didn’t check till yesterday and came across your site thanks Steve … shame scammers shame – never mind, what goes around comes around.

Hi there,

I also received one of these letters today and sent a copy to our Business Accountant for their perusal and comments. I must admit I did not think of checking the internet. Glad I did.
How come the GOVERNMENT !!! can’t, doesn’t, won’t chase these clowns and lock them up and throw the key away. We, in business, must lose a lot of valuable time on this rubbish. Regards………..Wayne—BP Roadhouse Nanango

The absence of phone, e:mail or web indicated a trawl for info from suspects (us), thus a likely scam. Thank god we have ‘crap detectors’ that are becoming balanced, prepared and on guard.

To Brian Green
Brian, I took the time to read the comments from a “client” of yours which are on this site.

If you really are a bona fide marketing company (as you would suggest) then come out and be open about it with a company name, an ABN, a phone number and an email address instead of hiding behind some fictitious woman’s skirt.

If you are an agressive marketer as you say, then be proud of that fact and your results and show us what you have. Of course you have retention (at least until the 5 year contract runs out) and of course they upgrade because you offer them the platinum membership at the gold price.

How you can sleep at night is just beyond me, but that’s your cross to bear.

Again – All Non Customers Making False accusations. Our customers are happy. These comments are from non-customers and a bunch of Rubbish. I don’t see any paid customers complaining! Just Non responders that don’t like our marketing letters. No Scam at all here, just a great service that puts peoples businesses on the map in search engines and generates business for them. But all of you have a nice day. Maybe you’ll come around someday. Good Day Mates :)

Brian Green……please email me directly and show me you’re for real. Thanks.

What a laughable load of tripe. “Brian Green”!!! At least somebody out there is providing a laugh. But on a more serious note, what I’m not laughing about is trash like this being sent to my non business home fax machine. Get off my bloody machine Brian if that’s your real name. A legitimate business has real contact details.
Bit hard to see how anybody can claim to know my business as it doesn’t exist. If you won’t stop at least come up with some original jokes!!!!

Received the “Who’s Who In Australia” fax scam but from (02) 8078 6030. My details are available on the WEB – so why didn’t they use them? Anoying but clever idea poorly executed.

I just received the same fax from Jennifer CROWLEY. It is funny how her names changes every few months. Thanks for having this site Steve!!

I am hesitant to call the number on the bottom of the page…
“If you have received this fax in error or would like to be removed from the list, please dial 888-833-1296.”
Is this also a scam?
Thanks for your comments.

Who the hell will do this for free. There is nothing that is free on this earth, even water is not free, except the air that we breathe in but we have to pay for the air that we breathe out. Something to do with ETS, I think.

Dearest Brian,

Received a fax today by your local tart (jennifer crowley)

The funniest thing is that you’re making it worse by ignoring comments by everyone on this site to provide your ABN and business name on your documents, or a pone number.

I just received this fax today in California, USA. Brian Green, are you expanding your B.S. to the USA? You got my wife’s name all wrong you f** fool.

I just received a fax with the similar letter head and content. No phone number, no ACN or ABN. It is a SCAM. They try a hard..

Just got mine today. Something told me to Google this because their was no phone number to contact anyone as well as the fact that I figured, “what Executive or Director would submit my name for this?” I’m not on everybody’s “Favorite Person’s” list. I figured it was a scam. Although, I’m going to keep my warm and fuzzy feeling when I thought I was special. ;)

We just received today. Like the other comments, I am always leary of fax invites. There is no telephone number, nor can I find them during my engine search. There is no address, so I can’t find them on BBB. For those, with a little savvy, kudos to you all!

Thanks for the Website Steve!

My “special” fax was received in Western Australia today (27/1/2010) from ‘Office of Public Affairs (Jennifer Crowley)’ & here I am now. Up the top there is no fax number to let me know where it is from just ‘Stanford’. As per other comments, the fax numbers given are all the same & the Fax number is 02 8078 6030. The Fax is addressed to ‘The Director / Manager’. There is a number under the date: ndocau(with a 4 digit number in here that I’m not giving for scammers to trace back)-20m.. (perhaps this can be translated to: out of a series of a-z documents sent through Australia & the ‘lucky’ numbered recipient I am!)

To: Brian Green – apparent owner of this marketing co. (comments 11/12/09 & onwards), I do not sympathise with you or you 50 staff employed, and just out of curiousity, why didn’t one of your staff just email me from my website; is it because it would have gone straight to my spam so I could have easily deleted it & saved my paper, ink & time on your fax? Also – who approved my candidacy on 22nd January and how many ‘Jennifer’s’ are (you humping in your head) employed by you?

Good luck with your “marketing” business, but don’t get on here and make your demands on Steve or all us “non” customers. Understand that we are non-customers because we probably actually loathe your ‘type’ of marketing techniques and those like you out there, because you are sneaky and this site has provided a place for us to express our apall about scammers such as you.

When you start a real business and refer to me other than as a document number like legitimate businesses do then maybe I will be nicer to you! As for now, I’ve enjoyed spending my time on here expressing my thoughts and will definately not be wasting a fax back on you!

I started laughing right away. Yeah!! and how much is this going to cost me. WHO cares about a little store owner in the middle of nowhere. I am very glad that I googled it. Totally confirmed my suspicions.

What has the world become? We trust nothing and google everything!! If they want to really scam you then they need to send to the correct fax number.

I bursted out laughing when I read it. What a waste of ink and paper. First thing I thought of, how much will this cost me. Second of all, WHO cares about a small town business in the middle of nowhere. Great scam!!!!

We got one too, out of the blue, as a non-profit organization. We get lots of this stuff and you want to watch out, before you know it they charge you $500 or more. You quickly find out it’s a scam once you see there is no address, no phone number, no website, NOTHING! Just a fax number. And yes, the name was Jennifer Crowley at the Office of Public Affairs. We faxed them back, thanked them for their interest and told them we had chosen not to use their services, and asked not to contact us again. This way, they can never say you agreed to their offer and send you an invoice that would get accidentally paid by one of your goodwilling employees. Good Luck!!

Got my wonderful invitation, today. Smelling scam, I checked it out. After reading all the comments I have to say that Jennifer Crowley is one cunning little runt!

Well Brian Green i would take you up on your offer and then can report back with more info ..

Here at Dunder Mifflin we try all sorts of aggressive marketing to increase our paper sales and Brian Green was one of our top sales people. Due to the down sizing at Scranton PA recently, Brian was laid off (mainly due to his unpopularity amongst non-customers). Please direct all of your paper queries to either Jim Halpert or Dwight Schrute. Thank you from The World’s Best Boss.

I just received one of these and it made me a bit uneasy as I know that these sorts of requests for info aren’t usually sent my email. When I rang the number it was Optus who responded which I though was interesting.

The initial fax pampered my ego and i duly responded thinking I may have been mistaken for some industrial knight. I received a phone call from an American named “Andrew Goode” who asked me a series of questions concerning my business and my motivation for seeking listing in the Who’s Who before congratulating me on acceptance. I was entitled to receive quarterly journals, invited to publish in them as often as was possible and would receive two round the world air tickets on accepting either platinum or gold status costing $600 and $800 respectively.I claimed not to have my Visa card but would get back to him the next day – shortly later he rang to say the publisher had a deadline of that afternoon upon which I told him we were happy to defer to next year’s listing. On this he indignantly exclaimed that he had assumed he was dealijng with a reputable business to which i responded “You are but I’m not sure I am.” Click.

Thank God for the Internet or I would never have found out this info about ALL the different Jennifer’s for Who’s Who sending this fax. I called the 888 number to remove my fax, hopefully that works.
Thanks Everyone!

My office also received around Feb 14 and assistant thought I should read. With no phone number, address, website, email, I was suspicious and eventually today goggled – good work putting up the webpage!!

Got mine from Jennifer Crowley as well. What a shame.

Smell’s like I just stepped in something!

SCAM,SCAM,SCAM!

Hi and thanks for setting this up. I just got the fax from Jennifer Crowley. LoL – I also have the same feelings of ‘wow’ when I first read it too, but the alarm bells were ringing, and Google really is your friend!

I have received one of these every day for the last week.
So today I filled in the section at the bottom with the following:
“We dont want anymore of your spam! If you don’t stop sending this crap, we will keep sending it back so you know how annoying it is.”
Then faxed it to them 10 times in a row.
I’m sure that won’t fix it, but it made me feel better anyway :)

We received ‘Jennifer Crowley’s’ little spam fax 1/3 & Googled to confirm suspicions, to finish up here. Good facility to help expose these predators, thanks.

And why is it a hoax…. Because lots of people received it? Makes no sense what you folks say. You all sound like a bunch of whining teenagers. Grow up. If you don’t want the service, don’t respond.

Received this rubbish today, thought it was a scam! Waste of paper and ink! As to Hector( if thats your real name) why are you bothering to make comments, oh unless of course your a ‘friend’ of Brians!!! Good on you Steve for alerting people to scum like this!!

Yes, I too recieved this nonsense signed from Jennifer Crowley. As Darren Hinch would say.. Shame Shame Shame!!!

Just got mine from Jennifer Crowley today in Missouri. I feel honored but will have to pass.

Well I just received one of these today and yes it days make you feel important until you google it and find the truth of it..
Thanks for this post!

Thanks Google for the info no-one else gives you. I honestly can’t believe these people have nothing better to do, I’m only upset the 10cent paper was wasted on such c#*^p. As some people would say sometimes you need joy even if it lasts a few seconds on your expense. Its becoming a sad world when you can’t trust anybodys info anymore.

The way i like to deal with spam faxes is to send back a “looped fax” with a special message. I feed 3 pieces of paper into the fax machine and stickytape the end of the first page to the end of the third page, dial in the number and away it gos, around and around and around and around and around around and around and around and around and around. maybe its read by no-one, but it makes me feel better. I also ring genuine businesses who spamfax and let them know how i feel.

Always a give away when the only contact details are return fax numbers.
I did have to check though, just in case somebody did think I was important, besides my dog!

I have repeatedly asked this “Jennifer Crowley” to remove my business from her “spam” database, to no avail.
So, when I receive one of the Who’s Who faxes, I load my fax machine with paper, as much as it will hold, and fax it back to the number given on the form. At the top of this heap of paper, I have a sheet that clearly states Federal Law in regard to unsolicited faxes.
If I receive another fax from them, I am going to create a paper-loop in my fax machine so that Who’s Who will receive a never-ending fax, thereby tying up their fax machine until I am ready to stop it.

Got one of these today. Looks like a rat, smells like a rat probably a rat. Looking at this website definitely a rat! Thanks for the info and laugh

The Who’s Who fax received today. Return fax number only is the give away. All praise to google for assisting in finding this site. Had my fifteen seconds of importance and fame now it’s back to reality.

Now its Lisa Smith, the edition is 2010/2011. Thanks for the site great work.

You quoted me exactly:
“Although hang on, if I’m so interesting why don’t they know my name and details already?”

Thanks to all who sent in replies! I’m glad I took the time look this organization (and I use this very liberally) and low and behold…Thanks again for your valuable information regarding this ‘fishing’ Scam!

I also received this fax today from Office of public affairs- Lisa Smith, no contact details are always a problem for me.

I also received this fax today from Office of public affairs- Lisa Smith, no contact details are always a problem for me.
Sorry Adrian but I just copied your post, it was either that or just DITTO.

Yesterday we received The Australian Register of Who’s Who on our fax machine. Looked at it and instantly thought SCAM!!!
Checked Google and sure enough there it was. Sick of these types of Faxes, just one big waste of paper and it is my paper!! lol Our fax was sent from Office of Public Affairs ( Lisa Smith )
People have to be really right on top of these scams that come through your fax machine. We have be in business for 27 years and i have lost count of how many faxes i have tried to get rid of by those sites on the internet to remove your fax number, they work maybe a month and then the next wave of nuisance faxes starts up again. Ah that feels better i have had my whinge about them. Have a good day : )

Was just about to fax this in, since I’ve been getting the actual solicitations where they know my info for a while.

SFVA: saved from viral advertising.

Thanks.

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Complainant details
State: ACT
Postcode: 2614
Gender: Female
Details of the scammer (business, company, group or individual)
Name: Stephen D Byrne
Street address: 7 washington terrace
Suburb / Town: murray brigbe
State: SA
Postcode: 5253
Phone number: 0421134932
Email: aussieman6970@yahoo.com
Details of the scam
What type of scam was it? Banking & online account (including Phishing)
How did the scammer make contact? Internet
What problems were experienced?
Unauthorised account or credit card transactions
Money was paid/transferred/lost to the scammer: Yes
How was it paid? Wire transfer
How much money was paid/transferred/lost? 14000
Brief description of the scam: he told me he was going to help me get my funds from my bank and i accepted he has me to pay the money which i paid into his account and he came back to tell the account his frozen that i have to send another money since it like this so my 1.6,million dollars can be paid to me…i have hos driver licence with me and i can attached it and send to you if needed
Do you require a response? Yes