My Stepdaughter Is in the process of starting a part time business doing Botox type work, she’s spent a good few grand doing up the garage and getting ready, next step was the social media, website and twitter path to try and get some customers, she is a fully trained nurse and was wanting to go down this route to spend more time at home with the grandkids, she picked a name for the company but it’s only going to be run as sole trader type thing.
To cut a long story short she was only up and running a few weeks and any work she got was from friends and family, suddenly a letter arrives through the post from a solicitor saying a ltd company from England with the same name wanted her to cease trading as that name and pay £750 costs to them, when I looked up company house there are about two more companies with same/similar name, to make it worse the guy that owns this company has phoned her up and demanded £1000 of her or else he’ll call the police and take her to court and said it’ll cost her 5 figures and she’ll end up with a criminal record and never be employed as a nurse again.
I have told her to see a solicitor as basically in my eyes he should be done for harassment, extortion, blackmail and the only thing she has done wrong was make a genuine mistake of picking a name that someone else has been using, I’ve told her not to answer the phone or respond to any emails, also to top it off my step daughter got in contact with others that have a similar name to warn them and he’s been in touch with some of them trying the same nonsense, any advice would be greatly appreciated even for piece of mind but I have told her to see a solicitor only to correspond through a solicitor.
To cut a long story short she was only up and running a few weeks and any work she got was from friends and family, suddenly a letter arrives through the post from a solicitor saying a ltd company from England with the same name wanted her to cease trading as that name and pay £750 costs to them, when I looked up company house there are about two more companies with same/similar name, to make it worse the guy that owns this company has phoned her up and demanded £1000 of her or else he’ll call the police and take her to court and said it’ll cost her 5 figures and she’ll end up with a criminal record and never be employed as a nurse again.
I have told her to see a solicitor as basically in my eyes he should be done for harassment, extortion, blackmail and the only thing she has done wrong was make a genuine mistake of picking a name that someone else has been using, I’ve told her not to answer the phone or respond to any emails, also to top it off my step daughter got in contact with others that have a similar name to warn them and he’s been in touch with some of them trying the same nonsense, any advice would be greatly appreciated even for piece of mind but I have told her to see a solicitor only to correspond through a solicitor.