Find companies and products Get the right contacts for a stable and certified business. Company Catalog Please notify everyone in your office who opens your company`s mail or emails (including “info@”) about this scam. Do not complete or return any of these forms. Legal actions have been filed worldwide against Inter-Fairs Directory, Expo-Guide, Fairguide, Mulpor and Construct Data. Many actions have been successful. But this only leads to the reappearance of the company under a new name and in a new jurisdiction. The most recent of these is IFD/Mulfor from Costa Rica. If you have already signed the order form for Expo Guide or others and have therefore entered into a contract with this company, we strongly recommend that you immediately contest the validity of your acceptance of the contract due to fraudulent misrepresentation. Fair Expo, Jessie Data, Expo Guide, Fair Guide, Construct Data and MULPOR have no business relationship with BVV and Veletrhy Brno a.s.

(BVV Trade Fairs) rejects the practices of the aforementioned companies. We strongly advise exhibitors at our shows never to respond to offers or invoices from these companies. This information relates to questionable business practices towards exhibitors by International Fairs Directory (Inter-Fairs.com) Mulpor, FairGuide.com/Construct Data Verlag, Expo Guide (Mexico), Event Fair – The Exhibitors` Guide with their misleading directory services. There may be others that are not known to us and are therefore not mentioned here. Construct Data Verlag was officially dissolved on 30 January 2010 after the Austrian Unfair Competition Agency successfully filed a lawsuit against it. Thanks to our own conclusions and based on the observations of our customers, Veletrhy Brno a.s. (BVV Trade Fairs Brno) has registered several cases of publication offers in catalogues such as “FAIR Guide”, “EXPO Guide”, “International Fairs Directory”, which were received by e-mail from “Jessie Data” and misused the name of the CENTREX Association. MSV exhibitors then receive invoices from the “FairExpo” catalogue, which misuses the event logo. The catalogues are presented as “the largest Internet list of trade shows and exhibitors” and “a powerful way to acquire new customers, search for new business partners or study trade shows”. We draw your attention to this point and warn you against certain companies that send letters, faxes or e-mails and offer to include your company in an exhibitor directory or a company guide, such as: International Fairs Directory, FAIRGuide, Expo-Guide, Event-Fair, Construct Data Verlag, World Business Directory or World Business Guide.

If you receive communications from Expo-Guide and Fairguide.com or an affiliate, we recommend that you ignore them completely and do not communicate with them in any way. Experience teaches us that writing letters simply confirms that you are alive and that you are at the address/email address/number they have for you and can therefore proceed with payment. Be sure to check everything carefully before signing forms! Ensure that only an administrator or designated signer in your organization can sign and sign directory entries. Thousands of people and companies have been trapped and experienced the tedious manipulation of Expo-Guide and Fairguide/Construct Data (and now IFD). The form mentions your participation in a trade show and seems to have a link with the organizers of that show. It is labeled “Urgent” and gives a deadline to return your company information for an ad in what looks like a free online exhibitor list service or exhibition directory. If you are exhibiting in the UK or abroad, whether your business is small or large, you may hear INTERNATIONAL FAIRS DIRECTORY (IFD), INTER-FAIRS, EXPO-GUIDE or FAIRGUIDE or CONSTRUCT DATA. Letter from the Federal Government for the Prevention of Unfair Competition, Vienna, November 2006 If you are caught, you should report it to the government`s anti-fraud office, Action Fraud, operated by the City of London Police – follow this link In the case of U.S.

companies, if you have a complaint or concern about unsolicited emails or faxes from any of the companies mentioned above, You can contact your local Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission, Washington DC. MULPOR Company S.A. of Uruguay (also known as International Fairs Directory) CONSTRUCT DATA VERLAG of Vienna, Austria or Bratislava, Slovakia (also known as FairGuide or Expo-Guide), wwwdb s.r.o. Bratislava (Event Fair) – EU Business Services Ltd of Utrecht Netherlands or Charlestown Nevis West Indies (also known as the EU Business Register, World Business Directory or World Business Guide) is in no way affiliated with the ZARAGOZA EXHIBITION CENTRE (FERIA DE ZARAGOZA) or any of its trade fairs. By joining forces and vigilance, we succeed in defending the interests of the international trade fair industry – and those of our customers! These publications are not related to trade fair organisers or their events, and it is important that all exhibiting companies are informed of this. The concept of these dubious offers is always the same. Based on contacts that obviously come from the free electronic version of the exhibitor catalogue of our trade fairs, our customers receive forms written in English which, at first glance, seem to be a free update of the data in the Internet catalogue. It`s not true.

Once they are filled out and sent, the customer will receive an invoice to pay nearly € 1,200 per year. Only then does the deceived customer learn that he has actually signed an order for paid services, for three years, without any possibility of termination. Alternatively, an invoice for the expansion of advertising services will be accepted. Copies of relevant correspondence on this topic are available at the following links: Contact the organizers of the fair you are attending to verify that you are only filling out legitimate forms for the exhibition you are attending. Be warned, be vigilant, be careful when dealing with International Fairs Directory (Inter-Fairs.com) Mulpor / Expo Guide / FairGuide.com / Construct Data Verlag and other questionable practices. We remind our exhibitors that Wolfsburg AG creates its own catalogues/trade fair guides or awards exclusive contracts for the production and marketing of these documents. This fake directory and listing scam has been going on for over 25 years, and people are still getting caught by it. Following the work of the Austrian Association for Protection against Unfair Competition, Construct Data signed a new undertaking on 21 February 2008.

Original here The settlement in Austria, where Fairguide has agreed to stop harassing many people who dispute their contracts INTERNATIONAL ALERT “DIRECTORY” – DON`T GET CAUGHT! FTC Stops Foreign Affairs That Caused Many Small Businesses and Nonprofits to Pay Millions of Dollars for Fake Online Directory – March 2013 With this disclaimer, we explicitly state that these registrations do not constitute the entry in the official exhibitor list. As the organizer of the IZB, Wolfsburg AG has no contractual affiliation or relationship with suppliers such as: These companies offer legitimate exhibition guides for exhibitors around the world and offer online listing services. They use a form similar to an organizer`s free listing service, which asks exhibitors to fill out the registration form in an online directory. Unsuspecting exhibitors who sign and return the form are then included in a non-recoverable agreement that could cost the exhibitor a lot of money, with very limited foreseeable benefits. In reality, details are often available on the form itself, but often too small and insignificant to notice. It is always advisable to read the fine print before signing a contract, and if the information is not legible, the contract should not be signed. We encourage our customers to read similar “offers” carefully before deciding to complete and submit them. However, if you do so and do not wish to pay for “unsolicited services”, we recommend that you send a notice to the catalog publisher in small print at the bottom of the order form stating that you are withdrawing from the contract for fraudulent behavior. Do not respond in any way to other payment requests or inform the Company that you will file a criminal complaint. Companies were tricked into believing that the forms they received were for a free registration for a particular trade show and not for ordering an expensive listing in another useless internet directory called Fairguide.