Talk:European Business Register Network

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European business registry is a scam

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Absolut unseriöse Abzockmasche per SPAM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.198.9.178 (talk) 08:29, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

European Business register is a fraud. They deceive companies by eliciting their consent in what at first glance appears to be a free of charge service, but in small letters includes a charge or around 1.000 euros. Then they are blackmailing in order to get money from their victim. Wikipedia should turn the article down. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.119.2.193 (talk) 12:02, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

real organization vs. scam

It looks like:

• "The European Business Registry Association (EBRA)" is a real organization.
• they operate the "European Business Register Network (EBR)"
• EBRA doesn't maintain any company databases, they merely run the EBR, which provides a gateway to other national company directories
• "EU Business Register" is a scam organization
• EBRA has a warning on their website about this scam

Dracunculus (talk) 14:45, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

notability?

There doesn't seem to be much information about these organizations online, other than their own websites. I suspect that the real notability is about the scam -- people might receive the scam email and be searching for information about whether it's legit or not. I was able to find these articles specifically about the scam:

• https://en.mercopress.com/2021/09/02/spain-s-leading-fisheries-fair-warns-about-scammers-uruguayan-company-tops-the-list
• https://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/eu-business-register-scam.27vl

...should this article be re-written to emphasize the scam, and take out some of the extraneous information about the registry, like the list of partners? Dracunculus (talk) 15:22, 8 September 2023 (UTC)