Facebook Business Page Scammers

Kingdom34

Kingdom34

Kingdom34

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Anyone else experienced this and taken action? I was talking to my neighbour about his new driveway the other day, he wasn't too happy about the job. Turns out this guy is a bit of a jack of all trade, master of none. My neighbours elderly and I feel protective of them at times.

This lad's done the rounds, created a local business page on facebook one week.. a paving company, then a few months down the line, another business page with near on identical address and biz info as the first but a different company - Gardening. I've just had a look now and he's got a fencing company.

I've asked around the people I know in our area and a few of them know the name and not for the right reasons.

I had a look on facebook and I cant see anyway to report the page for being a scam.
Anyone experienced this same/similar situation, if so what did you do?
 
Unfortunately "he wasn't too happy about the job" doesn't really constitute a scam. A scam would be he paid and the guy never turned up. Changing trades is completely legit so there's no scam to report to Facebook, the only people that would be interested would be Trading Standards for poor workmanship.

Has he even tried to contact them re: the poor workmanship as you would any tradesman/service?
 
Russinating said:
Unfortunately "he wasn't too happy about the job" doesn't really constitute a scam. A scam would be he paid and the guy never turned up. Changing trades is completely legit so there's no scam to report to Facebook, the only people that would be interested would be Trading Standards for poor workmanship.

Has he even tried to contact them re: the poor workmanship as you would any tradesman/service?
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Ok perhaps Scam was the wrong wording to use.

I think this guy from what I see, leaves a trail of poor workmanship, abusiveness towards customers and then when found out, moves onto the next company.

Ive googled his company history on companies house/gov website. Doesn't read well at all.

I will tell him to contact Trading Standards. But I fear that the company being resolved now after a few months, theyre do nothing. Is it time to call in Rogue Traders lol.
 
Luke said:
If it is set up as a business page can you not leave a review?
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That's a good point. But when the blokes been threatening and abusive to an old person...who actually doesn't have facebook, hence me looking. Is it really worth it? I'm just seeing if anyone else has had to deal with a similar situation here.
 
Yeah I took a company to court via Trading Standards (it was a garage, not a tradesman). It was a long and arduous process in that case but it was worth it for the moral victory. With multiple companies they'd probably want to speak to him, the man/director, not the company, anyway, so dissolved or not it doesn't really matter.
 
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