Nurseries beware bogus charges

By Catherine Gaunt
Nursery World
17 July 2003

Nurseries across Scotland have been warned to be on their guard following bogus calls from a company claiming they owe it hundreds of pounds for educational publications. Laura Fraser, owner of Rowan Tree Nursery in Glasgow, received three phone calls on 7 July from a company claiming she had agreed back in February to pay £199 towards the cost of a publication to be distributed to local primary schools. She said, 'When I said I was unaware of the publication, the caller said the order had been reduced "from a full contribution to a contribution for a single class". They...

 

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