SCAM - Beware.

[wade88]

Morning guys,

I could be wrong here, but just recieved a phone call from a rather mysterious bloke claiming to work for the emergency services council asking if i would like to jopin up to a new scheme they are running to promote "honest traders" in efforts to stamp down on rogue traders.

However....as the conversation progressed and i was continuosly digging for information about this company and he was continuously avoiding my questions, he claimed i had been recommended by the Government as a good trader and was on their "good boy" list so to speak...as soon as i mentioned i was slef employed and was unable to see how te Government would have any information on at all (and this guy couldnt even confirm the name of my buisness) the phone line went dead and he had hung up in a flash.

He was asking for bank details and money etc to join this new scheme of theirs whereby you will feature in a magazine they publish to your local area as an honest reliable tradesman...great idea. But rly dont tihnk this was a genuine set up.

Just thought id put this out there.

Ben

 

[topquark]

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[GOODWIN]

Morning guys,

I could be wrong here, but just recieved a phone call from a rather mysterious bloke claiming to work for the emergency services council asking if i would like to jopin up to a new scheme they are running to promote "honest traders" in efforts to stamp down on rogue traders.

However....as the conversation progressed and i was continuosly digging for information about this company and he was continuously avoiding my questions, he claimed i had been recommended by the Government as a good trader and was on their "good boy" list so to speak...as soon as i mentioned i was slef employed and was unable to see how te Government would have any information on at all (and this guy couldnt even confirm the name of my buisness) the phone line went dead and he had hung up in a flash.

He was asking for bank details and money etc to join this new scheme of theirs whereby you will feature in a magazine they publish to your local area as an honest reliable tradesman...great idea. But rly dont tihnk this was a genuine set up.

Just thought id put this out there.

Ben

another one is the emergency services eithe police, fire or ambulance, youll have loads of reader blah blah i got an invoice from a third person company (not poice/fire/ambulace)when i said i might be interesed just tell em no and hang up

 

[jase158]

happens all the time, especially when the website is just set up, people from the police, ask them their police number and they say they are not part of the police? wait a minute you just claimed you were from the police?

charities, ambulance service, fire station, i.e.

My opinion, do not buy unless you ring them, do not buy when they ring you 90% of the time it is a scam.

if you really do want to buy as it sounds genuine, firstly get a phone number from them and ring them back. secondly have a meeting with them to discuss, most of them will hang up after you ask for a meeting as they are claiming to be in your area when they are not,

shame as it ruins genuine businesses that want to promote their business, but i think telesales has all but gone, these days i would never buy on the phone.

 

[wade88]

Yea i said to the guy, who had a strong liverpudlian accent, exactly what area are you suggesting im in...and he gave a broad selection of postcodes for about a 100 mile radius. Numpty. Got to love the irony tho, people trying to make money off the back of rogue traders. Its a scam from a scam

 

[wade88]

its a scam baby...

 

[GOODWIN]

Yea i said to the guy, who had a strong liverpudlian accent, exactly what area are you suggesting im in...and he gave a broad selection of postcodes for about a 100 mile radius. Numpty. Got to love the irony tho, people trying to make money off the back of rogue traders. Its a scam from a scam

haha yea they operate from the wirral

 

[Rikki Barrett]

I have had these calls, from the so-called 'police', they say they are are sending out 40k booklets nationally, they sent me a mock up ad, what a load of crap it was when I got it.

SCAM.

 

[edrobbo8]

Got the call too, I said I might be interested so send me the details, next thing an email arrives with invoice for £295+vat and a 1/4 page advert that I must say yes to, which thye have designed by going onto my website and taking the essentials down!!

Then this morning a letter is on the doormat with all the spiel saying pay now and get 10% off!!

Thanks, but no thanks.

 

[Silly Sausage]

When they ask for your bank details just give them your 'wife's', Frances Osbourne, Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, Sort Code 12-17-25, Acc No 27486330, Current balance £2,252.1 billion DR