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I’ve just been the victim of an attempted scam. I received a phone call from a woman stating she was checking my automatic insurance renewal. She gave me lots of correct details about myself, my wife and...
In June 2009 I parked my wife's Saab convertible between two empty spaces in a shop car park. When I returned, the space on the Saab's driving side had been taken by a large SUV type vehicle. It was parked...
I spotted a 2009 Honda Jazz EX on Autotrader in a rare (But not to everyone's taste) colour, and at a great price. It was in Luton and I live in Manchester, but it had a clear HPi report, which prompted...
About the middle of 2010, we received a letter addressed to a Mr Alan Thompson at our address. We are the first owners of a new house, which was built on the site of the old village hall, and Mr Thompson...
My daughter and I run a small business delivering livestock feed in the South East using Land Rovers and trailers. We each cover around 30,000 miles per year. Some months ago my daughter returned to the...
I had 3 phone calls from a company called UK Claims around 8pm on 12th Dec 2011, which were quite intimidating to a pensioner, insisting that I had had an accident and made a claim for compensation, which...
BBC Radio 4 ‘In Business’ drew attention to postcode loading by insurance companies, due to huge increases in "crash for cash" insurance fraud scams, very popular in some areas. As you have previously...
In January of 2011 a driver was observed having bumped my car. The witness to this incident failed to leave his name however did leave the details. My insurance broker, the AA, put me on to Claimfast...
I've copied an extract from an email thread I've had with a potential seller of an Audi A4, and am concerned that this appears to be a scam to extort the money, with the seller never to be heard of again....
A friend and her husband have just been followed home and told they had driven into the back of this persons car whilst in town and that they had 100s of witnesses. They are claiming whiplash but there...