Alex Shapiro from US YEllow Pages Directory .  Do not speak to these people they will take your voice and create it into a recording stating that you are going to purchase a 12 month advertising from them for 479.95.  When really you do no such thing. BEWARE. They bill you 3 months later threatening to turn it over to collections.

The same thing is happening to us! They called my wife three months ago to verify our address, she told them we were not interested in thier service and they said we were under already under contract. Since I wasnt here at the time she thought maybe I had agreed to it so she verified our address. I had never spoken to them before. So when she told me about it I called them the next day but Alex Shapiro was unavailable, but I told the person I was talking to that we did not want thier service and that i never had signed a contract with them. We never heard a word from them untill we recieved a fax yesterday saying we owed them 479.95. It also stated we could cancel for a fee of $285.00. So I called them today and got Alex Shapiro who told me they didnt need a signed contract that they had a recording of my wife authourizing it. I said I would like to hear that and that it was probably doctored. Alex then told me i could cancel out for $285.00 and I told Alex I would never pay them and they could go to !!!!.

I too was caught in the scam. They called to verify name, address, fax,etc. just general information. I remember telling them I would not approve anything but address and such. They sent an invoice about a month later. I called them and said we didn't owe and they said we have recording stating that you appoved this. I said I didn't either. They played it for me and all you can hear is me yes.  I wish some lawyer would get hold of this and sue them.

Has anyone been turned over for collection for this?

Alex Shapiro is trying to run the same scam on us as well. She called one of our branch office locations and got one of the ladies there to verify our name address and phone numbers and now they are billing us for $479.95 saying that our employee authorized yellow page advertising and that they have a recording of it.  Do not have anything to do with these people, don't even talk to them.  This is a classic telemarketing scam.

same thing happend to our company.  it is a shame and they call all the time with threatened legal aciton.   i bet alex is a bank of csrs they have working the phones.  i could hear them in the background pulling the same shame on others.