ACS Law : GCB Limited

Originally Posted by crmclr

We are keeping our client advised of all posts to this thread so that they can take whatever action they decide is best.

I have no way of knowing whether or not your client knowingly colluded with an 'associate' apparently from ACS:Law but the idea of someone 'lending' their company to someone else without knowing what 'venture' it was going to be used for is frankly incredible.

I appreciate the posts you have made to this forum and hope that you make more, giving updates.

Incidentally, what was it that caused you to visit this site in the first place?


@kurvaface, zoomboy & others - thanks for your efforts investigating this [problem] - I wish you well.

As a matter of interest, I think that it might help if from time to time, someone were to summarise the information to date. To that end, I offer the following very rough starting point (template ):

Companies:

Davenport Lyons
ACS:Law
GCB Ltd.
Media C.A.T. Ltd.
Piri Ltd.
Pixton Technologies Ltd.
Result Systems Ltd.
GCH ??
Champion Financial Advisors Ltd.

People:

Andrew Crossley
Lee Bowden
Jonathan Miller
David Fisher
Terence Tsang
Adam Glenn
Clem Vogler
Sarah ?
Allan Reid

McLean Reid
1 Forstal Road
Aylesford
Kent
ME20 7AU

Nature of Business : Transport via railways

Allan Reid
Senior Lecturer
Room C394, Marylebone
0207 911 5000 ext. 3030

crmclr said "Mclean Reid can confirm that they are cancelling the registered office facility for GCB Ltd and have contacted the various regulatory authorities and other interested parties.

We also confirm that we have no connection whatsoever with ASB Law (sic), its directors or shareholders."


MEDIA C.A.T. Ltd.
c/o Gateway Partners
43 Whitfield Street
London
W1T 4HD

Nature of Business : Other entertainment activities

Media C.A.T. Ltd. are a cheque cashing service

Forwarding address for Media C.A.T. Ltd is: Grind Hall, Wood End Green, Henham, CM22 6AY

Which is also the address for Piri Ltd.
The Piri Ltd. MD is Lee Bowden
Crossley and Bowden seem to be associated?
Lee Bowden (approx 40) lives at Grind Hall
Wife = Samantha (allegedly in remission from cancer)
Dog = Frodo
>1 son (probably 3?)
Property Developer
(Uttlesford District Council)
Rivers Hospital [in High Wych] - Helen Rollason charity

Piri Ltd.
c/o Company Secretary
7th Floor, The Tower Building
York RD.
London
SE1 7NX

Nature of Business : Other software consultancy and supply + Other business activities


Champion Financial Advisors Ltd.
1 Forstal Road
Aylesford
Kent
ME20 7AU

Nature of Business : Other financial intermediation

Previous names: Pixton Technologies Ltd. / Result Systems Ltd.


(kurvaface) Just phoned the 0203 number on the letter, they gave Hobson's address but said to make cheque payable to GCB Ltd. He also said the director is someone called David Fisher


"According to companies house, the single director of GCH is a David Fisher who was appointed several years ago when the company was created. Perhaps McLean Read need asking if the David Fisher that presumably is their client that they set the company up for and who is unaware as to what is going on, is the same David Fisher whose name is being provided as the director of the company when callers call the number on the correspondance."


GCH - what is this?


Mr. Miller & GCB (probably Jonathan Miller from ACS:Law?)


From TorrentFreak:
"Please don’t forget that it was SKY BROADBAND that harvested IP addresses for ACS Law. If you are using SKY, maybe it is time to switch to BE Broadband."

"BE did a deal with ACS:LAW to sell their customer’s IP addresses too. Only TalkTalk come out of this with any credit. Virgin stopped selling their customer’s data but only after receiving loads of complaints. Every other UK ISP did a deal with Crossley."

Dog = Frodo

It took me 5 minutes to stop laughing!!!

hi kurvaface

i have recieved one of these letters demanding payment of £475. i am not computer litteratae and need some help or advice of what to do i have emailed the sra about it but what should i do with this letter

cheers mate

p.s hope you dont mind me asking but it just sounds like u know what u r talking about. thanks again

Originally Posted by yantto

hi kurvaface

i have recieved one of these letters demanding payment of £475. i am not computer litteratae and need some help or advice of what to do i have emailed the sra about it but what should i do with this letter

cheers mate

p.s hope you dont mind me asking but it just sounds like u know what u r talking about. thanks again

I assume you didnt recdeive a leytter from ACS then ?. There is tons of advice on the web and a huge thread here at CAG somewhere (not this one), advice varies from not responding at all, (at least not untill a genuine letter before action is received) or sending a letter of denial (there are plenty of templates avialable, although it may be best to personalise it a bit).

As far as current events go, I would recommend waiuting and seeing what happens with:-

a) GCB Ltd, The whole issue regarding this company is very fishy and it is not clear if they even have any sort of authority to ask you for any money, it may be there is something fraudulant/illegal going on.

b) Today's court case.

Either way the end result is it is very very unlikley that any serious legal action would be taken against you, so go spend your £475 on something more deserving and not these bunch of crooks.

Andy

Hi, I thought it was about time I finally logged in and thanked everyone who adds to these threads and helps calm my nerves every time. I have had four letters from ACS/ GCB, and coming on and reading from experts and other victims have helped me no end, the time and effort you guys put in is really appreciated.

I am very interested in today's court case and would appreciate all updates anyone hears about it, I hope it bury's these crooks once and for all.

I don't know if this has been pointed out anywhere else, but does anyone find it strange that the ACS Law website doesn't seem to exist any more? I can't find it via google and the link on the wiki page claims it as a dead link. I think this more than anything must prove that they are losing their battle.

Anyway thanks again guys, your efforts do not go unappreciated.

thanks andy

yes i did recieve a letter from acs in september last year and wrote them a letter of denial and heard nothing from the until today when i recieved this letter from gcb. i will put the information in the letter on here for you to see later as i have to go to work now

thanks again mate

Good stuff yantto.

OK.

As far as I can establish, the bank account number and sort code provided in the letter offering to transfer funds belongs to GCB ltd registered at Allan's business.

So Allan.....
As you are being so straight and honest with us, and you have bucketfulls of masterful wisdom, could you give us another alternative crazy (But almost feasable) way that your client could have a business bank account that he doesn't know about. We invite you to give us his trading address. If anything, I am suprised you haven't done this as it keeps the fingers pointing to you. Do GBC's bank statements go to you or him?

GBC have apparently changed address

Name & Registered Office:
GCB LIMITED
1ST FLOOR HOLBORN GATE
330 HIGH HOLBORN
LONDON
ENGLAND
WC1V 7QT
Company No. 05687574


Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 25/01/2006

Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
6010 - Transport via railways
Accounting Reference Date: 31/01
Last Accounts Made Up To: 31/01/2010 (DORMANT)
Next Accounts Due: 31/10/2011
Last Return Made Up To: 25/01/2010
Next Return Due: 22/02/2011
Last Members List: 25/01/2010
Previous Names:No previous name information has been recorded over the last 20 years.UK Establishment Details There are no UK Establishments associated with this company.Oversea Company Info There are no Oversea Details associated with this company.

They are still in the transport by railways business, but are not registered with the ICO.

So what does this tell us about Allan and his (Former) client?

GCB LIMITED
Company number: 05687574

Current Appointments

Number of current appointments: 2

SECRETARY: FISHER, MICHAEL JOHN STUART MR

Appointed: 25/01/2006
Date of Birth: 24/02/1963
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Appointments: 5
Address: [redacted]
WEST MALLING
KENT
Country/State of Residence: ENGLAND

DIRECTOR: FISHER, DAVID MR

Appointed: 25/01/2006
Date of Birth: 29/10/1960
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Appointments: 18
Address: [redacted]
WORTH
WEST SUSSEX
Country/State of Residence: ENGLAND

Addresses redacted to keep things nice and safe.

Brothers?

From: Andrew Crossley [mailto:andrew.crossley@ac s-law.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 5:20 PM
To: Dave Fisher
Subject: FW: Letter {Scanned by vsl mailsafe}

David

Please see attached. I will speak with KSN to see if this hearing can be avoided by agreeing the award sum, which I will do in consultation with you.

Regards

Andrew

"GCB is no longer pursuing the matter stated in the letter"


!!!!!

"Disregard the letter" they say.

can someone tell me how to post up a voice memo from my ipod

http://www.sra.org.uk/documents/cons...46.05_0206.pdf

Seems one has form for fiddling!

I have a recording of the first answer phone message which they cocked up...I'd love to post it up if someone can tell me how

(I've got it saved as a voice memo in Itunes)

And the official notice too...but that's not funny.