My husband's business received a fradulent "invoice" from WebsiteBackup.com for $70 for website backup fees. My husband is an experienced business owner and I am a web developer so we did not fall for this scam but we could easily see a busy office manager passing it on for payment. The invoice asked for check to be made out to "WEBSITEBACKUP COMPANY" and indicated that this is an annual subscription.
This company is a scam and is fishing for unsuspecting companies to pay a fake invoice/bill. They send a $70 fake invoice (though the word "invoice" is no where on the document) to companies. I handle all the AP/AR and know this is not one of our vendors. I tried calling their customer support number and you get a recorded message saying the wait time is 30 minutes and makes you leave a voicemail. Of course, nobody ever calls you back.
Like the other users that have filed reports here, WebsiteBackup Company sent an extremely official looking “invoice” for $70 (it seems to have coincided with the renewal of our domain name even though we have a private registration). We have never interacted with this company and it seems as though they don't actually provide any services -- they just attempt to bill you for backups without any ability to perform them. Calls to their customer support to investigate the “invoice” went unanswered at any time of day, with a notice that the wait is over 20 minutes. You are then automatically redirected to voicemail and never receive a call back.
If not for our office manager checking with me before remitting payment, they would have gotten away with it. We cannot allow a company like this to take advantage of small businesses. If you've received one of these fraudulent invoices please do your part and file a report here so that everyone knows.
Had the same issue as the other individual. We recieved an "Invoice" for WebsiteBackup Company for $70 for our company website. Looks identical to the one posted by Lessons Learned. We did not have any past payments on file for this company and found it odd since we usually renew our web services electronically. Contacted our web designer to make sure it was a scam and discovered it most certainly was, we do not use thier service. There is a login box on thier page but when you click "forgot password" it is not an active link. Thier "Terms" and "privacy policy" are also not active. the links for thier affiliates and agent (not sure what is meant by agent) both link to a generic support page. The support page claims that your login information would be your account number for the username and your password would be your domain name. That does not seem very secure for a company that is supposed to be backing up your website information. They have quotes on thier page from a Wintr Inc and Autummn Ltd, after a quick google search it was apparent these companies do not exist. There is no information on the companies "About" page that mentions the history of the company or who founded the company and thier social media pages were created in January 2015 (3 months ago) and do not have much content on them. ironically they seem to have over 400 followers but most are from other countries or do not contain profile pictures (purchased?)
I would say from the looks of it, it is not a legit company.
Received an invoice in the amount of $70, stapled to a self-addressed envelope, advertising a service "website Backup Service Plan - webstie backup pro". We have never signed up for this service and they are trying to get us to pay them for something we do not have.
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My husband's business received a fradulent "invoice" from WebsiteBackup.com for $70 for website backup fees. My husband is an experienced business owner and I am a web developer so we did not fall for this scam but we could easily see a busy office manager passing it on for payment. The invoice asked for check to be made out to "WEBSITEBACKUP COMPANY" and indicated that this is an annual subscription.
This company is a scam and is fishing for unsuspecting companies to pay a fake invoice/bill. They send a $70 fake invoice (though the word "invoice" is no where on the document) to companies. I handle all the AP/AR and know this is not one of our vendors. I tried calling their customer support number and you get a recorded message saying the wait time is 30 minutes and makes you leave a voicemail. Of course, nobody ever calls you back.
THIS COMPANY IS A SCAM. AVOID.
Like the other users that have filed reports here, WebsiteBackup Company sent an extremely official looking “invoice” for $70 (it seems to have coincided with the renewal of our domain name even though we have a private registration). We have never interacted with this company and it seems as though they don't actually provide any services -- they just attempt to bill you for backups without any ability to perform them. Calls to their customer support to investigate the “invoice” went unanswered at any time of day, with a notice that the wait is over 20 minutes. You are then automatically redirected to voicemail and never receive a call back.
If not for our office manager checking with me before remitting payment, they would have gotten away with it. We cannot allow a company like this to take advantage of small businesses. If you've received one of these fraudulent invoices please do your part and file a report here so that everyone knows.
Had the same issue as the other individual. We recieved an "Invoice" for WebsiteBackup Company for $70 for our company website. Looks identical to the one posted by Lessons Learned. We did not have any past payments on file for this company and found it odd since we usually renew our web services electronically. Contacted our web designer to make sure it was a scam and discovered it most certainly was, we do not use thier service. There is a login box on thier page but when you click "forgot password" it is not an active link. Thier "Terms" and "privacy policy" are also not active. the links for thier affiliates and agent (not sure what is meant by agent) both link to a generic support page. The support page claims that your login information would be your account number for the username and your password would be your domain name. That does not seem very secure for a company that is supposed to be backing up your website information. They have quotes on thier page from a Wintr Inc and Autummn Ltd, after a quick google search it was apparent these companies do not exist. There is no information on the companies "About" page that mentions the history of the company or who founded the company and thier social media pages were created in January 2015 (3 months ago) and do not have much content on them. ironically they seem to have over 400 followers but most are from other countries or do not contain profile pictures (purchased?)
I would say from the looks of it, it is not a legit company.
Received an invoice in the amount of $70, stapled to a self-addressed envelope, advertising a service "website Backup Service Plan - webstie backup pro". We have never signed up for this service and they are trying to get us to pay them for something we do not have.