YET MORE POTENTIALLY FICTICIOUS ADDRESS and / or PERSON(S)

Data Issues
1

New Incorporations on 29 January include at least 4:

11795214, 11795223. 11795243 and 11795315

that meet with our automated “sniffer-dog” criteria of

a) No Postcode was given on registration
b) A seemingly unnecessary prefix before the property number
c) Single Chinese national, resident in China. as the sole director

The full set of “matches” for 28 January can be seen on our public wireframe at

https://statbooks.co.uk/updates/menu.php

Click on New Incorporations and all of them are immediately visible and shown to share a common SIC “Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet” which suggests that there may a causal link to recent HMRC actions that removed many thousands of Chinese enterprises from Amazon and other marketplaces. Those for 29/01/2019 will be similarly visible later today.

2

Thanks for sharing your investigations - we don’t currently have the resources to investigate large portions of the data set and so I’m grateful that some people are doing so (also @dmw). The issues which we’ve encountered already with the data which we do process have shown that there’s a need…

BTW your link shows as www.statbooks.co.uk but I can only find it (https or http) at statbooks.co.uk e.g. https://statbooks.co.uk/updates/menu.php

3

Thanks for pointing out the link error which has been corrected - just goes to show that none of us are perfect! Thanks again.

4

We are not resource rich either and nor do we specifically set out to be investigative. However, where incoming CH data fails to meet specified criteria we can, and do, isolate it and then holistically batch review. in the past this helped us to refine our criteria but now it predominantly shows up issues that go straight back to the incoming data but may also show common detail within that data, as is the case here.

Sharing seems only right and proper; reciprocation is also good!

5

A FEW MORE POTENTIALLY FICTICIOUS ADDRESS and / or PERSON(S) HAVE APPEARED

New Incorporations on 22 February include at least 3 more of these:

11841080, 11841123 and 11842022

that meet three of our “watch out for” criteria

a) No Postcode was given on registration
b) Single Chinese national, resident in China. as the sole director
c) Common SIC Code.

6

Thank you again. This activity is under investigation and all posts have been passed to our integrity dept.

7

AND HERE ARE MORE POTENTIALLY FICTICIOUS ADDRESS and / or PERSON(S)

11843373, 11843383, 11843390 and 11843401

These four were incorporated on 25 February with the same criteria matches. The first three have real addresses, though use by Chinese based entities appears somewhat unusual; the fourth is either an unnecessary prefix before a non-existent property number or an unexplainable suffix added to a real property.