A Nottinghamshire engineering firm says people are being defrauded out of thousands of pounds and left "distraught" by a fake website imitating their business. Staff at Rock Civils Engineering in Langar say one recent customer came from as far as Glasgow to find that what he had been sold did not exist.
As well as using the company's name and address on the fake website, social media accounts are also being set up in the name of company directors, which can easily be found on Companies House. Invoices are also being sent to customers using this information, with the amount stolen from people now standing at over £100,000.
The business was established in 2010 by Michael Kane, 53, and delivers groundwork services alongside its sister business, Rock Plant Hire, which lets out items such as diggers, trailers and dumpers. It is this latter side of the business which a website and several social media accounts have been imitating for the past eight weeks.
