Missed call on my phone. I don't know who it was though.

i had a call from claimmanagementuk.co.uk (bcrs) they are a complete scam outfit and attempted to rip me off £200 saying they could claim back my payment protection insurance.

i havent heard from claim management uk but i have done a search and found the directors to be christopher trainor and jamie bradley

Just to warn you guys of a possible scam that I think I have just fallen for. I'm absolutely kicking myself that I have fallen for this. I have just called my credit card fraud department and they say that they may not be fraudsters but they probably are shysters. I am usually so careful abou things like this and was actually suspicsious from the off, but still, like a mug I went through with it.

Ok so I got a call this afternoon from BCRS, saying they were part of Claimmanagementuk.co.uk.
They said that they got my number from O2 who I had recently taken a phone contract out with which is true.
They said that they offer a service to get back all your bank charges etc, as im sure you've read about.
They asked me some details about charges etc over the past 6 years, did some calculations and estimated I should get back approximately £1000 plus 8% interest on top. They said that they do not keep any of the reclaimed cash, and that they charge a £79.99 admid fee for the claims pack as it contains purpose letters drawn ip by solicitors etc. They asked me a few questions, address etc, then my alarm bells went off when they said I would need a password, and that they suggest that I use my date of birth as it is easy to remember. At this point I said I would rather not give out my date of birth can I give another number, so i gave them my house number.

I then had a few more questions, saying I would rather not pay anything up front untiL i had checked them out, they said they would send me a text message with their website address, and also a link to the claimsregulations government website where I could enter their company reg number and confirm they were regulated. She then said she would call me back in an hour or so once I had had the chance to look.

I then said ok come to think of it, im sure I heard that a case had been to court, and that no banks would pay any charges back until this had all been resolved (including probably appeals etc) they advised that this is just what the banks are saying, and that if you use them and their properly formed legal docs and legal back up you should get your money back in about 6-12 weeks, and that they had a 100% success rate so far, if i didnt get it back I would get a refund of the admin fee.

So i got home, checked out the website and the government website, and they seemed pretty genuine, the company reg number checked out, they did indeed show up on the government site etc.


So when they called back, I thought fair enough I will give it a try  

I then received a quality control call to confirm all the details, they came to my date of birth and she read out the house number and said that cant be right, what is your date of birth...  

But then I told myself, hang on, how do I know that they are actually that company?!?!  

So i checked the text messages that they had sent me. One had the company details and website details on, then there was another one saying that the £79.99 would be debited within the next couple of days and would show as claimmanagementuk, and that I needed to complete the pink form and return it to them. It also provided a customer service telephone number. So I googled it....... and it was the number for the Christian Advice Service...  

I also noticed that they had spelt a couple of the words incorrectly, they had out cliams managmetn,

So I thought holy ship, I cnat believe I have fell for this after all my original caution (and the fact that i work for a bank doing a job where i do credit and fraud checks  )

First off I called my card companies lost and stolen cards number, I was expecting to have been wiped out, but they had indeed taken out the £79.99 admin fee, and the payment had indeed gone out to claimsmanagement uk in swansea, which is where the company was registered. They put a freeze on the account just incase, and advised me to phone their fraud number. They guy on fraud pretty much said he doubts they are fraudsters and the transaction looks genuine, and is under the name of the company they claimed they were, and that they may be shysters, but they probably haven't commited any crime.

Either way I have this sneaky fealing I am not going to see the £79.99 back, or any bank charges back soon.

They may be genuine, but too much doesnt add up there. Just a warning if you get this call... I will post if there are any updates. The number on the claimsmanagementuk.co.uk website is totally different to the one they provided me on the text, so I am going to give them a call tomorrow and see if they know anything about it.

yeah i got a call today and i'm also on o2,when i was asked for the money(£79.99) to send out the pack i told them i wasn't giving my details over the phone..she then asked for half the money for the pack!! when i told her i was at my work and busy she got the message & hung up!

Same here, iPhone on O2.  I got shouted at by them because I told them the line was poor (I couldn't hear a thing she was saying it was so muffled).  They have called me 4 or 5 times now.  I am going to call O2 and ask to speak to a supervisor in support and give them this website!!

I got a missed call on Wednesday
I have an O2 iphone which was purchased in December on a new account that so far has never been used to make or receive any voice calls.  I don't even know the number myself.  They must be trawling numbers or getting them from o2.  But if they were trawling wouldn't you expect to find some other network users listed here!

i'm on o2 aswell new iphone,,the punks give me a missed call, next time they call i will defo give them sum sh*t,

Yeah im yet another o2 customer with a missed call from this number. Am also on the Simplicity contract - is this a link???

had a missed call from this number! a couple hours ago and on O2

jus got a call off during college and im on 02 aswell

i got the miss call not long ago and im am an o2 user also.

i gotta missed call tooo......I  am on o2 as well....

I also got a call today but missed it.
On 02, are they giving our number out?

quick question
ive noticed were all on o2
and im going to go out on a limb here but
are you all on the new "SIMplicity" service from o2?

could it be this "SIMplicity" thing?

im also on o2 lol
My phone rang for about 2 seconds then hung up
it was this number.
thing is its +1 so thats an american area code
im UK
im not even going to ring them back incase they charge me a bomb

ide avoid at any rate

They called us today but hung up themselves before barely introducing themselves.  I'm also on 02

on 02 as well has to be the third time they've phoned me just ignore them and they go away

They called me today and when i told them i had never been charged by my bank i was told "fine, f%ck you then"!

i would avoid at all costs!!!

i am also on o2...?

yer I recived that call today at about 10.33 they didn't ring for long as i missed the call trying to get my phone out of my bag! tiz blates just a scam!

I waz wonderin how ever if there was any link with network ....... Im with o2!?!?!

Not only are they dodgy feckers who cold call, they hang up on you rudely if you're not interested.

i had one call me on the 31st of jan 08 and a woman called talking about bank charge's and saying i can claim them back and what bank i was with and that they will only charge £59.99 for admin fees and the pack to claim back my bank charges will be posted(i asked for a letter 1st on headed paper but she said she cant do that,and i would need to give my account number on my card the long number infront of my card and i will get all my bank fee charges from the past 6 years and the back dated charges will be paid into my bank in the next 6day's i said i dont want to give my details over the phone and she read out a internet address they have got for me to look at and said she will call the next day(1st feb 08)
now i was on a bus so didnt give a to$$ about the web site she gave cos i was on a bus lol

Missed call as well - could not call back

Asked bank details etc

Missed call

i had a call to from this numba too the website they gave me was (almost right spanky) www.bcrsonline.co.uk and also claimsregulation.gov.uk and a reg numba which is 6392 i checked them out but havn't used them yet, they are regulated tho guys

Oh I For got think she said the wed site was :-  www.bcronline.co.uk
but i cant be sure also there is no web site exists
so dont give no infomation at all

this number does actually belong to a regulated company the bank charge recovery service, they actually helped me to recover my overdraft, direct debit charges e.t.c you can find them on www.claimsregulation.gov.uk that is the ministry of justices website you can do a business check and yep thy are regulated the numba is 6392 check them out guys tyhey got me my money back.

Missed call as well