Fraudulent ad hunting

Fraudulent ad hunting

From Kompas

On July 30, 1994 a man visited me. He told me he was an employee of Metropolitan Promotion Directory, whose office was in Maya Indah building, on Jl. Kramat Raya. The company was looking for people wanting to place advertisements in the 1994-1995 directory.

As a businessman who sells services, I was interested in his offer of placing an advertisement in Executive magazine (Yellow Pages). For this I paid him Rp 125,000 in cash. The employee promised to publish my advertisement within two months -- August- September.

But the advertisement did not appear as promised. I tried contacting the company several times by telephone and facsimile, but to no avail. I was told that the company closed down about ten months ago.

I would like to warn businessmen about such fraudulent activities.

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