Parish Reviews

Absolute scam We don t have any kind of listing with them buy they ve emailed a reminder to pay to renew our listing Absolute red flag scam artists

Although this might not be legally a scam it is certainly misleading businesses into subscribing a small amount My advice think before you sign up Do your research Listen to BBC you and yours radio 4 - May 3rd 2023

We ve received a spam email asking us to Renew Business Listing daily despite never having subscribed to this service Clearly someone who isn t equipped to make an honest living is harvesting company details and using automated scripts to send out emails to businesses in bulk hoping to snare a small percentage into paying 19 Their website has been deliberately styled to resemble a gov site I strongly encourage anyone who has received these emails to Google ICO report spam emails and fill in the short form You do not have to give your details if you don t wish to

Repetitive emails claiming you need to renew a listing you never asked for and don t need They claim not to be a scam but to my way of thinking they are misrepresenting who they are by using a name that sounds as if its from your local parish and also misrepresenting their relationship with your business by calling it a renewal even though you have never registered with them Edit 06 05 25 Also if you ignore them and let your unrequested unwanted listing expire they just start the whole thing again a few months later with another round emailing you every day for days on end

Scam There are no such directory payments They are targeting Parish Councils

Impersonating GOV UK by using same fonts website style and even the favicon icon Has been reported to the National Cyber Security Center

How this website is allowed I have no idea Copies GOV UK in every way other than a small piece of smallprint at the bottom requesting businesses renew their listings despite having never signed up and offering to charge Masuqerades itself as a community action initiative However there are plenty of parish councils in the UK with news articles where they have presented themselves as parish sponsored and otherwise yet are nothing to do with the council Just scalps business listings from Google and Bing Plenty of comments on here about the same thing and about the owners of PARISH UK

Just tried me this morning taking all my details off of Google and copying to this site saying my renewal is due to make it look like Gov site too Baffles me how its still allowed making a living off what we have already done or paying for elsewhere

Most certainly a sacm I ve reported to to Google spam DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY

Even being fairly tech savvy their email got me sucked in I assumed it was a business listing I had done years ago or something automated by my local council The website looks extremely similar to our council website - I assume this is their intention The email was -Dear Buisness name Your area Parish Business Directory listing for business name expires in 9 days https area parish uk business-directory To renew the listing and confirm the company s contact details are up-to-date please use the button below Alternatively you can cancel the listing Once the listing is cancelled you will not receive any further renewal reminder emails No where in the email doss it mention a charge You go to the form and start typing your info which they have clearly pulled on Google so you think you must have written it Only to scroll to the bottom to be asked how much you d like to pay and there isn t a free option Only then did I realise the area parish has nothing to do with my local council or the gov and is some random site someone set up called parish networks Never heard of it before why on earth would anyone pay Scam