Notice to Potential Suppliers

We have recently received several enquiries from various companies around Europe regarding orders that have been placed on behalf of Cyberdyne. These orders have generally been faxed, and include signed letterheads. Recipients have been located in Germany, France and Spain.

These orders have been placed fraudulently. If you receive an order that appears to be from us, please do all you can to confirm its authenticity before you ship anything on credit. This includes emailing us on:

suppliers AT cyberdyne-systems.co.uk

As a matter of fact, we haven't ordered anything from anyone for a little while, so if you have received an order, you should treat it as suspicious. Please don't use the phone numbers and e-mail addresses supplied on the order, as these are obviously likely to be fake as well. The orders have included company information (company number, VAT number, registered office) which is publically available on the web, and they use copyrighted text and imagery from our website.

The forged orders have generally used the name Paul Jhonson (sic), Paul Ken or Paul Kent, with a hotmail email address. The phone and fax numbers are generally mobile numbers (+447....), and the addresses are generally based in London. Cyberdyne has no operations in the London area.

Please note that one such order was followed up by fake faxes claiming to be from the London Metropolitan Police, telling the supplier to send the delivery to help them in a "sting" operation. If you receive such a notice, you should treat it as highly suspicious. Generally, please don't take any action on behalf of foreign police forces without clearing it with your local police first.

If the order turns out to be fraudulent, please:

• DO NOT SEND ANYTHING - unless you are prepared to suffer the loss!
• contact your local police. You are the victim here, not us, so there's not much we can do to help, other than co-operate with law enforcement.

If you have already provided goods or services on credit in response to a forged order, then you will not be paid by us. You will have to pursue the perpetrators through your own police and resources. We recommend that you tighten up your customer vetting procedures before offering services on account - a faxed letterhead does not constitute proof of identity.