poind.com

An invoice reported to us in October 2026 bills a European trading company €750.00 for “Poind — Business Data, Monitoring & Regulatory Intelligence”, quantity 1. It is issued in the name of Poind Intelligence ApS of Hellerup, Denmark, and arrived on 14 October 2026 in the company’s general mailbox, from an address at invoice.poind.com. The company says it never ordered such a service, and that it has received the same kind of invoice at more than one of its businesses.

Poind Intelligence ApS is a company registered in Denmark, and the invoice was sent from its own domain. This page records what the invoice says and what public records and other published warnings show, each with the date it was read.

The invoice

The e-mail is a Stripe invoice notification, with “Download invoice” and “Pay this invoice” buttons that lead to Stripe’s payment pages, and it carries the invoice as a PDF. Invoice ST-140810 is dated 14 October 2026 and due on 28 October 2026. It is addressed to the recipient by its correct company name and postal address. Apart from the line item, its only description of what is being charged for is the memo: “This invoice covers your organisation’s purchase of business data, market monitoring and regulatory intelligence. Service date: October 12, 2026 Payment is due within 14 days of the invoice date.” It refers to no offer, order number, contract term or user account.

The PDF also asks for payment by bank transfer to an account at Danske Bank A/S in Copenhagen, naming Poind Intelligence ApS as the recipient and the invoice number as the payment reference. It prints the VAT number DK45676730 and applies the EU reverse charge: “Reverse charge — VAT to be accounted for by the recipient. Article 196, Council Directive 2006/112/EC.” The file’s own properties record a creation time of 14 October 2026, 15:32 UTC, and no producer, creator or author.

Attachment: Invoice-ST-140810.pdf (37 KB) sha256 a21fdc50883b59c4c56d2d9b55afc3778303d761bae24ac71890a704dd5f5fec

The sending domain

The subdomain the invoice came from, invoice.poind.com, publishes a Stripe domain-verification record, and its bounce address, bounce.invoice.poind.com, points to custom-email-domain.stripe.com. Only whoever controls poind.com can publish these records, and they set the subdomain up to send e-mail through Stripe, which is the route this invoice arrived by. The invoice therefore came through the domain owner’s own Stripe set-up, not from someone imitating it. The telephone number +45 35 15 32 24 appears in the e-mail, on the PDF and in the terms on the company’s website.

The registry dates poind.com to 23 May 2004. Its record was last changed on 19 December 2024, and it is registered through Cloudflare, Inc. The Internet Archive’s copy of the domain from 7 March 2022 shows a Sedo parking page offering it for sale for 679 US dollars. The earliest archived copy of the current website, which presents the “Poind Intelligence Platform” and invites visitors to “Find your organisation. Request access. No payment at this step.”, is from 1 October 2026. These records were read on 17 October 2026.

Company and VAT records

The terms of business on poind.com (version PI-2026-10-05, “Effective for new agreements incorporating these Terms from 5 October 2026”) identify the supplier as Poind Intelligence ApS, CVR 45676730, VAT DK45676730, Gardes Allé 24, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark. DERKAUFMANN (below) reports that the Danish business register lists the company as founded on 12 June 2025; we have not read the register entry ourselves.

The EU’s VIES service, checked on 17 October 2026, answered that the VAT number DK45676730 is not valid. DERKAUFMANN reported the same answer on 16 October 2026.

The same terms set out how an order comes about: “An agreement is formed when an authorised representative of the Customer accepts an offer identifying the services, price and applicable delivery date or service period, and we accept the order.” They state that “Invoices are issued for purchases agreed through this process”, and that “Requests for information, quotations, demonstrations or access, and account registration or use of a free preview, remain non-binding until a paid order is agreed.” They also say: “Payment may also constitute acceptance where the offer expressly provides for acceptance by payment and the Customer has received the commercial terms and these Terms beforehand.”

Published warnings

On 5 October 2026, SVVK (Suomen Verkkoviestintäkeskus) in Finland published a warning about Poind Intelligence ApS: “Varoitamme nyt uudesta huijauslaskuttajasta nimeltä Poind Intelligence ApS.” (We are now warning about a new scam invoicer called Poind Intelligence ApS.) It describes invoices for “Poind — Business Data, Monitoring & Regulatory Intelligence” arriving by e-mail, and says that the customers who told SVVK about them had not ordered the service and had had no other dealings with the company.

On 16 October 2026, the Austrian site DERKAUFMANN published a warning about an invoice sent on 14 October 2026 from the same address at invoice.poind.com: invoice ST-139312, for €750.00 of the same service, payable through a Stripe link or to an account at Danske Bank. Its advice: “Wenn in Ihrem Betrieb niemand bei Poind Intelligence ApS etwas bestellt hat, zahlen Sie diese Rechnung nicht.” (If nobody in your business ordered anything from Poind Intelligence ApS, do not pay this invoice.)

Why an invoice like this gets through

An invoice issued through a genuine payment provider, from the sender’s own domain and with no malware attached, gives a spam filter nothing to object to. Whether it is paid depends on whether someone matches it against an order before it is approved — and an invoice for a general service, dated two days after its stated service date, can read as payment for something already delivered.

What to do if you received this

• Check whether anyone in your organisation ordered anything from Poind Intelligence ApS. If nobody did, do not pay it, do not reply, and do not use the links in the e-mail.
• Tell your accounts department, so that the invoice is not paid in a routine payment run.
• If a reminder or a collection letter follows, dispute it once in writing and keep every document.
• Report the message to your national cybercrime or consumer-protection reporting service.

Sources

All read on 17 October 2026 unless another date is given.

• The reported e-mail and invoice ST-140810 of 14 October 2026, as forwarded to RFQGuard. Not published, because they identify the company that received them; the PDF’s SHA-256 is given above.
• SVVK (Suomen Verkkoviestintäkeskus): “Yrittäjiä kiusaa nyt Poind Intelligence ApS”, published 5 October 2026.
• DERKAUFMANN: “Warnung: Rechnung von „Poind Intelligence ApS“ über 750 € – nicht bestellt, nicht zahlen”, published 16 October 2026.
• European Commission, VIES VAT number validation: DK45676730, result not valid.
• Poind Intelligence ApS, Poind Terms & Conditions, version PI-2026-10-05, sections “Parties, product and applicable documents” and “Orders and acceptance”.
• Poind Intelligence ApS, home page of poind.com.
• Verisign RDAP, registry record for poind.com.
• Google Public DNS, TXT record of invoice.poind.com and CNAME record of bounce.invoice.poind.com.
• Internet Archive, captures of poind.com from 7 March 2022 and 1 October 2026.
• Danish Central Business Register (CVR), entry for CVR 45676730. Not read by RFQGuard: the founding date above is as reported by DERKAUFMANN.