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I used to contract through my own limited company but I've been in a permanent job for a few years now. The company was dissolved 2 years ago but I still get any number of scam emails offering my old company help with CCJ, VAT, furniture etc.
They're obviously scams but I'm wondering what the thinking of the scammers is in targeting a closed company?
I'm membership secretary of a running club and I get all sorts of similar spam: Fleet car management; photocopier deals; etc.
The scammers have just let a bot loose and it's grabbing details from all "contact" type pages. Your details will still be on one of the scraper sites that list local businesses or maybe they did at the time the bot went past.
My guess would be scammers dont tend to tidy up the lists to remove those businesses which are no longer active.
Its not like it costs them anything significant to spam you.
Scammers or Spammers?
There's a big industry in selling business data, it's less regulated than personal data and there's a huge B2B industry.
I have to admit to buying data in the past to market to, I wouldn't do it again, frankly the only scam was the data sellers, they resell the same lists over and over.
By my estimation about 20% of Ltd Cos are on the sales data lists and they must be bombarded by everyone and their dog, the 80% who aren't probably never get an unsolicited sales approach - well unless someone is going very old-school and knocking on doors.
Anyway, it's unlikely the people who sold the data or the people who are using it are cross-checking it against closed businesses, do take it personally, you'll be one of thousands of people who got the same thing.
The interesting thing is the rate of spam increased quite dramatically when the application to strike off went in
I don't know about scammers but as the director of a company I occasionally get invited to wealth management seminars and the like, as if I were the director of BP or something. Once I got sent a pen with the company name on - a sample to encourage me to order. They couldn't fit the whole name on so it just ended in the middle of a word.
Data protection laws will be changing soon
And current laws apply