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We were spammed today by someone from Indonesia, advertising a company called Kitchen Units Leicester with the phone number 01616-694785.
Now I sometimes phone UK companies who have spammed us because they are usually not aware that the £££ they are spending with a disreputable SEO company is being spent hiring peasants in poor countries (like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia) for peanuts to post links on lots of forums and who care not about websites' T&Cs and rules about spam.
So I phoned the number in the spam 01616-694785. At first the number was engaged. Odd. So I phoned again. Number 4 in the queue. I waited patiently and then asked to speak to a manager. I was then on hold for 10 minutes before I hung up. I rang again to ask why I had been put on hold for 10 minutes. Engaged again. Then number 6 in the queue.
While on hold I did some Googling. What I found made me hang up and post this thread.
First of all 0161 I recall is a Manchester number.
Quick check. Yes it is. Not Leicester.
Then I did a search for the number online and found lots of results. Most were spam on other forums which has been deleted.
St. Albans?
I also got some results from customers discussing the company:
New Kitchen Rip-off - Page 2 - Consumer Forum
Search complaints
Seems that Kitchen Units are Kitchen Uber, Just Kitchen and Simply Kitchens, and are run by Martin Sersen / Vance Miller.
A search on Martin Sersen brought up
Kitchensuber - MoneySavingExpert.com Forums
And a search on Vance Miller brought up
Vance Miller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I decided that nobody at the company would care a hoot that spammers were giving them a bad name since they already have one.
So I have banned the spammer and sent his details to our anti-spam service. If they spam us again, I'll censor the domain.
Meanwhile, hopefully this thread will make it up Google's search results for Kitchen Units so people know to take care before parting with their hard earned cash.
Now I sometimes phone UK companies who have spammed us because they are usually not aware that the £££ they are spending with a disreputable SEO company is being spent hiring peasants in poor countries (like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia) for peanuts to post links on lots of forums and who care not about websites' T&Cs and rules about spam.
So I phoned the number in the spam 01616-694785. At first the number was engaged. Odd. So I phoned again. Number 4 in the queue. I waited patiently and then asked to speak to a manager. I was then on hold for 10 minutes before I hung up. I rang again to ask why I had been put on hold for 10 minutes. Engaged again. Then number 6 in the queue.
While on hold I did some Googling. What I found made me hang up and post this thread.
First of all 0161 I recall is a Manchester number.
Quick check. Yes it is. Not Leicester.
Then I did a search for the number online and found lots of results. Most were spam on other forums which has been deleted.
St. Albans?
I also got some results from customers discussing the company:
New Kitchen Rip-off - Page 2 - Consumer Forum
Search complaints
Seems that Kitchen Units are Kitchen Uber, Just Kitchen and Simply Kitchens, and are run by Martin Sersen / Vance Miller.
A search on Martin Sersen brought up
Kitchensuber - MoneySavingExpert.com Forums
And a search on Vance Miller brought up
Vance Miller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I decided that nobody at the company would care a hoot that spammers were giving them a bad name since they already have one.
So I have banned the spammer and sent his details to our anti-spam service. If they spam us again, I'll censor the domain.
Meanwhile, hopefully this thread will make it up Google's search results for Kitchen Units so people know to take care before parting with their hard earned cash.