Some of the regulars may recall that someone drove into my car nearly two years ago and that it took over a year to settle. The whys and wherefores are not relevant to this but things were settled in my favour. Because of its age the car was written off,. I brought it back and now run it on a Classic Policy as it is over 20 years old having brought another car for daily use.

Out of the blue today I got a call today from the above company on a Manchester (0161) number.Usually scammers are quite obvious by the high level of background noise, lack of any detail and, sometimes, heavy foreign accents. This person sounded quite plausible and knew details of the other driver and my car. He told me I was due £2000 compensation for shock and the jolt when I was hit. I suffered no injury and was more annoyed than shocked as it had been totally avoidable (the other driver was just driving to fast for the situation/road conditions). I started getting suspicious that although he had a lot of details he did not know if I had any passengers and the make/model of the other vehicle.

His colleague is ringing me back after 5:00. Should I be telling him to get lost?