Some guy named Randy called saying that they are sending out a invoice $599.00 to close out my account and put me on their do not call list. I told him I never had a ad on onlineyellowpages.com and that if you want me to invoice me then fax me a copy of the invoice. He got pissed off and hung up on me. He called on a private number. Now I had someone called in 2011 from the 681-324-8354 and her name was Jen. Also gave me a 888-504-2894 got pissed off when I refused to agree to them sending out a invoice. I had wrote notes to myself about it. I run a small business.

Oh yea.. I typed in the exact address that is on my 'invoice':

1111 Lincoln Road, Suite 400
Miami Beach, FL 33139

It's a US Sommelier Association!!  

Right off Wikipedia:  The definition of a Sommelier is:

A sommelier (/?s?m?lje?/ or /s?m?l?je?/; French pronunciation: ?[s?m?lje]), or wine steward, is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, normally working in fine restaurants, who specializes in all aspects of wine service as well as wine and food pairing. The role is more specialized and informed than that of a wine waiter.

hmm... must be nice to be able to research your fine wines while posing as a bill collector!

BJ- They are back... I got a call yesterday from Yellow National Directory.  I dealt with this crap last year with Yellow Local Directory.  Don't tell them a thing!!!  They're the same people.

Heads up.. This happened to me last year with Yellow Local Directory. An indian man with the name "Richard Collins" (first red flag....) harrassed me for WEEKS. He called me so many times and 'needed a payment IMMEDIATELY over the phone' I called the police. Let them know that this person was trying to scam us and our small business. He TRIED intimidating me into thinking if I didn't pay this 'past due invoice' which by the way.. I never received any bill for.. that it would go on my permanent record and would kill my credit score forever.(another red flag. Don't talk to me about my credit score-- it's NONE of your business) Thennn when I finally told him where to put his invoice- he played me a recording of me 'siging up' for his BS.

HERE'S MY HEADS UP:

I received another call just yesterday from another indian man.. this one's name is " Randy Jones" (mmmrriiiiight) collecting for a past due invoice for Yellow NATIONAL Directory. He sends me a fax of the 'bill' and it just so happens to have the exact same "account number" we 'had' with Yellow Local Directory. This man is trying to get $834.40 (this is with interest charge of course) and i'll tell you why.

Like I said previously.. I told Richard Collins to pardon my french- "stick it up you f*ing a*s"- but my father- who owns the business I work for, sent those pieces of you know what a check for $499. He stopped calling. I told him if he or anyone else from YLD calls me again, I will have them arrested. Already called the police once. SOOO they made a new one thinking a year later I, what.... wouldn't remember that unbelievible waste of my time?? Think again!!!! So they convenientely upped the price to get even MORE. I'm on to you RANDY. Call me again... I DARE YOU.......

Watch for # 1.786.837.0898

Address is :

1111 Lincoln Road, Suite 400
Miami Beach, FL 33139

Their 'invoices' look fake.

**Anytime anyone calls about UPDATING your local directory-- HANG UPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!**
Don't get suckered into them. They'll get every penny you own if they can, and sleep just fine at night. They'll get whats coming to them..

They're back!     just got a call (1-9-13)  from a guy,  didn't catch his name    but I knew imediately, it was the same group that had harrassed me over a year ago.   I wish I knew then what I'm learning now!    OH, how I wish I knew all this back then.   I actually finally paid them for something I knew I didn't orde,.  grrrr, just to stop the constant harrassing calls.  Their phone number came up as "Private caller" on my caller id.

I received another phone call from this Yellow Local Directory.  They got me the first time.  I figured I scewed up even knowing I said no at the end of the conversation, which they didn't play back on the recording.  I didn't want the hassel so I paid the $499 and they assured me that this advertising would not automatically renew.  Wouldn't you know they are back... Same crap, using the same recorded message, trying to collect.  When I refused to pay they told me I would be sent to their Dispute Dept. but they couldn't cancel my verbal contract because it was in dispute.  They promised to send me all invoices in the mail and have never received any.  Now they are looking for a Closure letter that I should have received that would have verified termination of the contract.  Never received that either.  I don't plan on spending a dime with this company, but I don't want to continue to get harrassed on the phone either.  What can I do?

WOW!  Thank you so much for all of that helpful information.  I was scammed too by this company and now I have their CC Recovery (fake collection agency scamming with them) sending me bills via fax.  What first clued me into the fact that this is a scam is when they played a recording of me but not the whole conversation...just what benefits them, not the part stating that I have no authority to approve this matter.  What is worse is the fact that my "verbal" recording approved charges for a totally different business.  Obviously any real collection agency would know that is not legal to do.  That would be like an employee at Cosco approving a yellow pages add for Sam's Club.  But the reason I responded to you was to let you know that I may just be that person who is able to stick it to them.  All the previous complaints are from small mom and pop businesses however, I work for a well known world wide billion dollar corporation.  I will be contacting our legal department and have them push this matter to the fullest extent so the information you had provided will help my lawyer with this matter.  Fingers crossed that these terrible people go down for what they are doing to people, it is shameless.

Right on!
I filed complaints with BBB and FTC

yes please dissolved that company pls .pls. pls .they are scamer ..spaecially the operation manager .

Trisha Balone aka trisha smith on fb is the manager at this stupid place. she fires people for no reason she does what she wants comes in when she wants and if anyone else does it she fires them.. she a fat ugly little girl that feels shes all that cus shes the manager there. truth is shes just fat and wear clothes to small for her and she hires her whole family to work there and scam you people in the us for your money everyday...Trisha aka Nicki is fraud trust me cus i watch her do it everyday.n hope you catch her and stop this madness once and for all. and the address avove this comment is the correct address to this place...ill be quiting real soon prob by the end of this week cus i just can't take her a** no more,so b4 i knock her in her face im gonna quit.

1025 road 138 west
kahnawake,Qc joL1b0

TRISHA BALONE,TRISHA BALONE,TRISHA BALONE,TRISHA BALONE TRISHA BALONE TRISHA BALONE, TRISHA BALONE, HER NAME IS TRISHA SMITH ON FACEBOOK!!! PLS CATCH HER SHE IS IN KAHNAWAKE LOCATION.hello everyone  if you are looking to catch these people that are located at

1425 Bl rene-levesque O
suite 425
montreal,qc h3g-1t7    

Marty( manager)
cal (owner)

also

1025 road 138 west
kahnawake, QC
j0l-1b0

the manager there is TRISHA BALONE  she goes by the name of nicki!

Catch these people pls.....and lock thier a** up.!

hello everyone  if you are looking to catch these people that are located at

1425 Bl rene-levesque O
suite 425
montreal,qc h3g-1t7    

Marty( manager)
cal (owner)

also

1025 road 138 west
kahnawake, QC
j0l-1b0

the manager there is TRISHA BALONE  she goes by the name of nicki!

Catch these people pls.....and lock thier a** up.!


I informed montreal rcmp about them a gave them the address.

hello everyone  if you are looking to catch these people that are located at

1425 Bl rene-levesque O
suite 425
montreal,qc h3g-1t7    

Marty( manager)
cal (owner)

also

1025 road 138 west
kahnawake, QC
j0l-1b0

the manager there is TRISHA BALONE  she goes by the name of nicki!

Catch these people pls.....and lock thier a** up.!

PUBLIC YELLOW PAGES.COM IS THE NEW NAME OF THE YELLOWLOCALDIRECTORY.COM
AND THATS IS SCAM!

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I was just contacted by Nicki Jones at CCRecovery (888-509-2894) for a supposed  Dec 2010 Listing from Yellow Local Directory out of Mooers, NY for 499.99 plus interest plus legal fees plus administration fees for a total of 833.17. I told the low life scumbags to stick it.  If I hear from them again I'm going to request a copy of the invoices and charges via US Mail. That way as a prevoius poster suggested they can possibly be charged with mail fraud.  Racketeering is not outside of the realm of possibilties either.

We got a charge of $872.00. Do not pay this!!! CC Recovery is owned by the same fraudulent company!!!My boss paid by Credit Card while I was yelling at him in the back to not pay because I looked into the company and found all that was being done was a Scam. I showed him the info I found after he hung up and he quickly called back the Credit Card company and had the payment stopped. They cannot hurt your credit so just do not pay!!!

I've been being hounded by these low lifes for about a year now. Same scenario, requesting info to update an ad that didn't exist, on a business I no longer operated. I insisted that any ad be cancelled. Then they asked me a bunch of questions to verify they had the correct information to cancel any ad. Then the bills started coming addressed to my former business and former old address. They have the rcording of me saying yes to a bunch of things I was never asked. Clearly a doctored recording. In a small town the mail finds you. Lately the bills have been addressed to my old business with my new business address and now the notorious Anna Foster says that the bill is for an ad for my new business! These people are insane!!! I have filed a complaint with the BBB, FTC and will contact the DA and local police next. I also registered all my phone numbers on the national do not call registry, making it illegal for telemarketers to call me.

Similar situation as that listed below but the man was named David Edward and his "supervisor" was named Nicole Kennedy.  They claim that the doctrine of "apparent authority" which is a legal doctrine allows them to bill if anyone authorizes the charges who answers the phone and says they have the authority to authorize the charge.  They record the authorization which is full of half true statements.  They do not have to have the contract in writing as under the Uniform Commercial Code the amount is under $500.00.  We will be reporting to the Better Business Bureau, the Attorney General in our state, Consumer Affairs, the Mounties (as below) and the Division of Taxation - I note that they did not charge NJ sales tax....   Has anyone had legal action commenced against them as threatened?

Scammed my receptionist indicating to cancel future ads she had to respond yes to following questions and then they would send cancellation notice.  Of course they sent the bill for $499.99!  What I can't understand is that they can still continue to do this.  Where is the justice!!!!

We got a notice from CC Recovery.   However, they falsified the documents.  They were harassing someone at an address we had about 26 years ago.  Strange how when we gave them our true address, the validating invoice had the correct address and a date from 2010.  The invoice they sent us last month had a different address. Go figure.

Got bill for $499 today - he called office yesterday asking the name of my secretary, so he put that on the bill. Fraud!

Reported these clowns at YLD to the NY State AG, FTC and the BBB and placed a fraud alert on my credit report.  They're not getting a nickel from me.  The hammer is coming down!!!!

I got a call here in Georgia, they kept on switching to different operators,I agreed to the charges but said no that if I get a bill I would not pay.They have a recording and cut off the part when I said no.I talked to three different people some listed on this blog all phone numbers go to the same person.They also listed my business under pet services which is hurting my business I should have hung up but didnt I will never pay and I think the Feds should shut them down.

I have been receiving calls from "Yellow Local Directory" since late 2009, when I apparently "agreed" to pay $500.00 for a listing our company had never placed and never planned on placing.... Well, as everyone else has done, we ignored that bill for some time. "CC Recovery" just started calling me today, claiming that we needed to pay $824.00 or they were sending our company's information to creditors, giving us 7 years of bad credit... After chewing the lady out on the phone, and then refusing to pay, I said I'd give her info to the owner, and he would tell her the same thing. She told me she would play a recording of my "verbal agreement to pay", and that we had no choice. They gave me a fake phone number to call back (I know this because I called back and the # was out of service, and the prompts was in Spanish). Woman I spoke with told me her name is Nikki Jones and she's calling from New Jersey... DEFINITELY WILL NOT BE PAYING. PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR THIS!! THEY ARE DESPERATE! SO DISGUSTED!!

My nightmare started last night, same story. I got "a ton" of the same invoices & calls. Did ocontacting the local police help? I contacted The Federal Trade Commision and am trying to contact the BBB. I am astounded there are so many of us falling victim to this!

I just received a call from someone regarding our public yellow pages. I could hardly understand her, she had such a foreign accent, and she wouldn't stop long enough for me to get her name (much less the spelling of it) She wanted to verify my doctor's name & address. Then she wanted my full name so that she could address me properly. She did not like the fact that I would not give it to her. She said we have gotten a free listing for a year and did we want to continue or not.  When I asked for proof that we had asked for their service in the first place (I know my bosses & they don't advertise in the yellow pages believe me!), she could not give me that information until I authorized an invoice to stop our listing and to permanently stop getting calls like hers. I would not authorize any invoice, and I had to tell her this repeatedly.(and loudly because she would not shut up!)  She seemed to be reading off a form and would not stop when I was trying to speak. I told her that we looked her company up on the internet and that I would not authorize an invoice, and that I thought this was a scam. She said I wouldn't have to pay the invoice, but she would need to transfer me to someone in order to get a file number stating that we did not want to be on the yellow page listings any more. To paraphrase "..am I to understand that you are authorizing an invoice to stop the listing........." Like I said, I would not, and did not authorize, any invoice whether I didn't have to pay it or not. I finally hung up on her.  By reading these other messages, I take it this hasn't ended yet.

These scammers played back a recording of me saying yes to everything, but I did say no at the end of our conversation, that I didn't want their service, but that was not on the recording.  The man, "Paul Kemp" on the phone was very intimidating when he threatened debt collectors and my own stupidity in thinking that I had signed up for the Yellow Pages when they were 'clear' on their end that they were an Internet advertising company.  They also had promised me initially that they would send me a check to cover the $499 so the service would be free, and to sign it and send it back to them.  None of the paperwork that they claimed they sent me ever came in the mail, as I watched for the check to come and I was going to report it back to the Better Business Bureau.  I am glad to hear that there is someone else out there who has been harassed by these guys.  The number they gave me is 866-507-7144.  They talk so fast and are so manipulative- beware!

I just received a call from Yellow Local Directory.  They said I authorized  a listing for $499.99 on 5/4/11 and it was now 127 days past due so it was well over $500 now.  I told them that I never authorized any such charges.  She played a recording where I had said YES verifying my information.  I then remembered speaking to these idiots.  I had told them I was NOT interested and they told me they had to send out an invoice in order to cancel the listing.  The person then told me to just ignore the invoice when it came in the mail and the listing would be automatically cancelled.  When it came in the mail, I trashed it like all other JUNK mail just like I had been told to do.  I NEVER received any other correspondance until the phone call today.  She told me she was faxing a copy of the original invoice immediately but I have yet to receive it and probably won't.  I told her I would be contacting law enforcement and my lawyer but She would not receive any money from me.

new information guys i left from there but still i have friends who tell me things. These Yellow Local Directory scammers Cal (owner) Marty (co-owner) started a new SCAM today its called public yellow pages. please believe me its the same people and its being done from the same place in montreal canada.
372 St Catherine Street suite 130, montreal, canada. someone please call the police or FBI or FTC and stop these people.
yellow local directory = public yellow pages please be aware of the new **SCAM** the new website is publicyellowpages.com and the new number is 1-855-797-2437 these scammers are scamming you americans every day someone please wake up and report these people to FTC and FBI.