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Wed 6 Jan 2016 13:27
Any - Solicitors Chasing Money - RaineMan

Some of you may recall that a car drove into mine a month ago. This is now with my insurance company and I will post more at a later date.

Many of us are bothered by phone calls, texts and e-mails about PPI, accidents, etc. Yesterday I had a call about the accident I was involved in and actually thought it was genuine until I realised they knew sweet FA about it. I did find it quite distressing by the end of the call.

What I do not understand is why the government do not take action against these people or even get Ofcom to disconnect them from phone and internet networks!

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Wed 6 Jan 2016 14:01
Any - Solicitors Chasing Money - RT

The problem is your/our own insurers selling your/our details which the "ambulance-chasers" can buy and make money out of the odd sucker that does fall for their scam.

Edited by RT on 06/01/2016 at 14:01

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Wed 6 Jan 2016 14:10
Any - Solicitors Chasing Money - Palcouk

Not nessessarily that the details have been passed on by your insurance company, for a fee, but recently a former insurance employee, of a major insurer, was sentanced in court for selling details to solicitors.

The actual insurance Company itself had no knowledge of their employyes actions, but discovered it in an audit. The solicitors the details were sold to stated they had no knowledge of the of any fraudulent activity - but then they would wouldn't they!

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Wed 6 Jan 2016 16:12
Any - Solicitors Chasing Money - daveyjp

Chances are there will have been no passing or selling on of any details.

It will be a mass calling system which rings thousands of numbers fishing for work.

In the OPs case they happen to have had an accident recently, so in this situation the company called were successful in hooking someone. Hundreds of similar calls won't have resulted in success.

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Wed 6 Jan 2016 16:18
Any - Solicitors Chasing Money - galileo

We installed a call blocker last year, which blocks all 'number withheld' calls, (which many mass-callers are), also enables you to block any caller from ringing you again.

Very rare for any of these nuisances to get through now, well worth the price of less than £50.

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Wed 6 Jan 2016 16:18
Any - Solicitors Chasing Money - galileo

We installed a call blocker last year, which blocks all 'number withheld' calls, (which many mass-callers are), also enables you to block any caller from ringing you again.

Very rare for any of these nuisances to get through now, well worth the price of less than £50.

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Wed 6 Jan 2016 16:24
Any - Solicitors Chasing Money - RT

We installed a call blocker last year, which blocks all 'number withheld' calls, (which many mass-callers are), also enables you to block any caller from ringing you again.

Very rare for any of these nuisances to get through now, well worth the price of less than £50.

I'd love to use one but our GP uses number withheld when he himself is calling, which is usually important to us - the main surgery number doesn't withold so call from reception are identified.

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Wed 6 Jan 2016 17:53
Any - Solicitors Chasing Money - RaineMan

They did not hook me as I hung up once I realised they had no details of the accident. There number was not withheld and is reported as a nuisance caller on the various web forums for Who Called Me, etc...

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