Here’s the deal. Even though I’m currently off work recovering from surgery, the surgery wasn’t the result of any accident. So when you call me from an ambulance-chasing compensation firm, we are going to have words.
- My telephone number is on the TPS do-not-call list. Just by calling me, you’ve broken the law — specifically, the Privacy and Electronic (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. That’s not a good start for a firm supposedly offering legal services.
- If you tell me the legal name of the company you’re calling from is the “Accident Investigation Bureau”, and no such company is listed with Companies House, you are a liar. Also, you need to pick a less ridiculous-sounding name for your scam.
- If I ask you where you got my details from, and you give me the name of a ‘government department’ with an equally ridiculous fake name, you are a liar.
- If you tell me your name is “Jack Carr”, even though you have a thick Indian accent and have already told me you are calling from India, you are a liar.
Yours was possibly the least convicing scam I’ve heard in years. Tragically, I suspect someone will still fall for it and you will con them out of some money, so I have no qualms about wishing you and your telephone-scam sock-puppet buddies a swift and hopefully painful accident of your own. Preferably involving a long walk and a short pier.
#1 by Mat on 7 December, 2009 - 8.03 pm
I feel your pain. (Okay, maybe that was insensitive…)
But seriously, re this, I do.
As a cathartic exercise, I usually end up researching these companies, attempting to call them back and speaking to their true ‘legal’ owners, demanding they give me information about their contacts database, how they got my number, who supplied them with a CD-Rom of illegally harvested contact details. I usually end up harassing them as much as is possible within the bounds of the law (or rather within the bounds of the levels of human decency they operate on).
All, of course, to no avail…