Just a warning that staysafemagazine purported to represent the police, fire and rescue service using. The following numbers 02034754095 and 07554278829 are contacting fitness professionals and therapists with the new version of an existing scam advertising in emergency services magazine's, gp surgeries and healthcentres.... Beware and please use other forums to warn the wider community
Thanks BGFL
wow. thanks for the warning 🙂
What is the scam about, i.e. what are they trying to do?
Amy, they make out that they supply magazines to the emergency services which are "distributed into all the places of work" or "distrubuted to all the staff" and that it is apparently a good place for therapists to but advertising space as it will reach a very large audience of people who apparently need such services.
I've been in touch with my local police force (not about this particular one, but one of the previous ones) who informed me that the only 'magazines' distributed to all staff are internal ones, some of which are done electronically (email/intranet), and that they have never supplied any magazines or newsletters from any 3rd party agencies, except some close partners like the local council in relation to things like pension newsletters etc. They also informed me that they were, at that time (don't know if anything came of it) investigating complaints made by several alternative/complementary therapists who had been ripped off by such scams i.e. they'd paid their money to advertise but had seen no evidence of any such magazine being produced.
I suspect the same sort of thing applies to other police forces in the country too.