Good news came this morning in the form of an e-mail from the Swansea shopkeeper who runs www.stopecg.org and campaigns against the European City Guide family of mailing scams. (See previous blog entries here, here, and here.)

As well as Switzerland’s ongoing investigation into the scam, more legal action is now underway. An Austrian consumer pressure group, the Schutzverband gegen unlauteren Wettbewerb (‘Association for Protection Against Unfair Business Practices’), is seeking an injunction in Austria’s highest court to prevent Construct Data, one of the ECG’s sister scams, from mailing their deceptive contracts to target businesses – and from collecting unpaid debts from past victims of the scam.

Consequently, stopecg.org advises the following:

This case has profound implications for those in dispute with Construct Data because if the injunction is successful it will stop Construct Data from collecting debts from misleading contracts mailed in the past. It is for this reason that we strongly advise companies in dispute with Construct Data to refuse to pay, at the very least until the outcome of this case is known. It must be understood that this case may not override civil action between Construct Data and a company in dispute with them.