iRobot
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Post by iRobot on Feb 6, 2024 18:42:49 GMT
Here's one i've not heard of before. Just received a letter addressed to the homeowner with my address on it. Came from a company called hydroguard legal services who want to be contacted by anyone who has purchased spray foam insulation. They say there are supporting a petition to ban spray foam, started by somebody called Jack. Doesn't sound like a legit scheme. I assume if anyone contacts them they will ask for payment to have the installer refund your money and replace the foam?
The hydrogardlegalservices.co.uk domain has been registered since mid-2016, and the firm is SRA registered (but not regulated) with a solitary SRA-registered solicitor (who is regulated) and was admitted 1970. (Blimey - must love what he does!) Whether that qualifies this particular brand of ambulance-chasing as 'legit' I'll allow others to be the judge-and-jury of  Edit: there is this warning on the Hydrogard website: " Beware of Insulate Homes UK. They are offering spray foam removals and telling consumers that Hydrogard Legal Services can guarantee spray foam refunds, this is a Lie. No one can guarantee anyone home improvement refunds and they are using our name illegally. This company is making false claims about spray foam insulation and are causing consumers harm." Maybe that is what you received?
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Feb 8, 2024 10:40:52 GMT
Moneybox on R4 covered spray foam a bit back, it seems some mortgage companies won't give a mortgage on properties with it as they are unable to see the roof or trusses. Several callers said they were unable to sell a property with it and had been advised to remove it at a cost of 10's of thousands of pounds
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Post by moonraker on Feb 8, 2024 11:29:39 GMT
Ouch! A friend of mine who is having a very rough time with ill-health and modest finances had her roof sealed a few months ago. I didn't like to say anything at the time. She intends staying in her house for the time being and has just had her bathroom converted to make it easier for her limited mobility, so in a way it would be best for her to stay there for the rest of her life and let her executors have the hassle of selling the property.
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Post by agent69 on Apr 1, 2024 12:24:46 GMT
E mail received from somebody claiming to be booking.com. We hope you're doing well! We just wanted to say a big thank you for being such a loyal customer.
As a token of our appreciation, we've sent you $265. It's our way of saying thank you for your continued support..
If you have any questions about claiming your reward, just let us know. We're here to help!.
Go To Rewards & Wallet
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Apr 5, 2024 13:03:41 GMT
Phone rings
"hello is that Mr Morgan"
"no this is not his phone"
"please to put Mr Morgan on the line"
"there's no Mr Morgan here"
"Mr Morgan the is council repairs and claims, you have repairs needed on your house and the council haven't done them, we at council repairs and claims will do them, you pay us and we get you double what you pay us back"
"err I own this house"
"thats ok sir we do the repairs and claim to the landlord you get double what we charge you back"
click
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Post by agent69 on Apr 5, 2024 16:17:10 GMT
Phone rings "hello is that Mr Morgan" "no this is not his phone""please to put Mr Morgan on the line" "there's no Mr Morgan here""Mr Morgan the is council repairs and claims, you have repairs needed on your house and the council haven't done them, we at council repairs and claims will do them, you pay us and we get you double what you pay us back" "err I own this house""thats ok sir we do the repairs and claim to the landlord you get double what we charge you back" click The commonest for me recently is the 'energy advisor for your area' who thinks my loft insulation may be defective.
- when I ask which area they cover they don't respond
- when I ask what sort of insulation I have they don't respond
- when I ask where they got my details from they don't respond.
All around a bit of a poor attempt at being a conman
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 5, 2024 17:53:34 GMT
I keep getting called by London numbers and the caller begins "I am calling from O2...". I just shut these off and block the number. But they are right, I'm with O2.
Yesterday this was covered on You and Yours. Its a company called plan.com who will switch you out of 02 and on to a more expensive plan if you let them. And the reason you might let them is that they have an awful lot of details about you, and give the impression that you are being moved to a cheaper plan with O2. But where they got your name, home address and knowledge of your call and data usage remains a mystery. O2 deny any involvement.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Apr 5, 2024 19:40:32 GMT
Phone rings "hello is that Mr Morgan" "no this is not his phone""please to put Mr Morgan on the line" "there's no Mr Morgan here""Mr Morgan the is council repairs and claims, you have repairs needed on your house and the council haven't done them, we at council repairs and claims will do them, you pay us and we get you double what you pay us back" "err I own this house""thats ok sir we do the repairs and claim to the landlord you get double what we charge you back" click The commonest for me recently is the 'energy advisor for your area' who thinks my loft insulation may be defective.
- when I ask which area they cover they don't respond
- when I ask what sort of insulation I have they don't respond
- when I ask where they got my details from they don't respond.
All around a bit of a poor attempt at being a conman
I get loads of these too, the first clue is the phone number out of area for your local person! For me they just go into their spiel and totally ignore me trying to talk over them, and then I hang up.
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Post by mostlywrong on Apr 5, 2024 22:29:45 GMT
The commonest for me recently is the 'energy advisor for your area' who thinks my loft insulation may be defective.
- when I ask which area they cover they don't respond
- when I ask what sort of insulation I have they don't respond
- when I ask where they got my details from they don't respond.
All around a bit of a poor attempt at being a conman
I get loads of these too, the first clue is the phone number out of area for your local person! For me they just go into their spiel and totally ignore me trying to talk over them, and then I hang up. I think those calls are pre-recorded and/or robotic. The quality is actually quite good but, even if you try and interrupt them, they continue to the end.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Apr 6, 2024 19:31:02 GMT
Just had a call from Microsoft about a virus I have picked up, difficult I do not have any windows based devices. Has nobody on the planet not been tried to scam with this old chestnut or is not aware of the scam, god the daughter of an African general will offer me money to get her dead father's money out of her country next or similar  . |
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Post by adrianc on Apr 7, 2024 8:54:28 GMT
Just had a call from Microsoft about a virus I have picked up, difficult I do not have any windows based devices. Has nobody on the planet not been tried to scam with this old chestnut... I don't think I've ever had one. Shame, I'd enjoy it... (No Windows or Mac devices in this household)
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Post by moonraker on Apr 7, 2024 15:39:53 GMT
I had the Microsoft virus call last month. I was quite rude, then realised it was from a Swindon number. Swindon is an easy drive to me, and I did wonder if I might get a personal visit ... Though I gather that overseas call centres do appropriate British numbers.
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Post by toffeeboy on Apr 9, 2024 15:49:47 GMT
I had the Microsoft virus call last month. I was quite rude, then realised it was from a Swindon number. Swindon is an easy drive to me, and I did wonder if I might get a personal visit ... Though I gather that overseas call centres do appropriate British numbers. Surely being able to appropriate numbers undermines the idea of having area codes.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 9, 2024 19:42:09 GMT
I had the Microsoft virus call last month. I was quite rude, then realised it was from a Swindon number. Swindon is an easy drive to me, and I did wonder if I might get a personal visit ... Though I gather that overseas call centres do appropriate British numbers. Surely being able to appropriate numbers undermines the idea of having area codes. Putting any store in them for location of the caller is a concept *decades* out of date.
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Post by overthehill on Apr 18, 2024 8:00:07 GMT
Took 2 years of people being scammed by texts to get to this point. Hardly surprising that fraud is the no 1 crime for the majority of people. So many victims that the only way of contacting them is via text - they'll probably delete it when it mentions Met Police !
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