Corporate Financial Services Limited - 0870 626 0736 chasing bogus pay TV debt

[Duffers Mum]

Anybody heard of CFS or the above phone number,

DH received a text message today,

addressed to Mr Duffer's Mum,

saying please ring this number and speak to Jenny and quoted a case reference number.

 

He rang from our home phone which is number withheld and asked who they were,

they said they were a debt collection agency and he promptly put the phone down.

 

Now he is not like me and doesn't actually owe anything

so if anybody knows anything about these muppets please could they let me know.

 

Dh's phone is a pay as you go so its easy enough to get another number via new sim card but we don't want to go down that route unless we have to. Thanks

[veryweary]

According to the say no to 0870 site, this company are called Corporate Financial Servises and they are based in Fife. It also says if you phone you get someone called Jenny Hatton.

[yourbank]

They have an office in crawley as well. Google Corporate Financial Services Ltd and that phone number comes up.

[eastendboy]

My advice is do not and NEVER phone these people. Wait to see what they come up with later as at the moment they are only phishing it would seem.

 

Depending on what you find out next, depends on whay you should then do!

 

There will always be people here willing to help so let's see:)

[Duffers Mum]

Thanks for your help on this. DH never gave his name and they obviously don't know who it was. We will wait and see if they write, then ignore then anyway!

[Duffers Mum]

Have now received a couple of letters from this mickey mouse company.

It is apparently in connection with a subscription tv service.

 

We used a debit card to pay monthly for this service and when a new debit card was issued we forgot we had a payment set up on the old one.

 

The tv service stopped and as we didn't use it we didn't bother to enquire why it had stopped.

We received no letters or phone calls or anything from the company concerned

the first we heard was when Dh got the above mentioined text message which we obviously ignored.

 

The latest letter we have received threatens the usual rubbish, we MAY do this, we MAY do that etc.

Should I send a letter to them requesting sight of original contract (one wasn't signed, we subscribed through the TV), and a copy of the invoice.

 

As far as we can tell we only missed one payment so therefore they should only be claiming for one month, not for the whole year! Thanks

[berrylover]

I have an ongoing hoo hah with CFS, I will see if I can find my thread to link.

They are a bunch of muppets, I am playing a great game with them at the moment.

They are lots of fun.

 

Can't find it.

 

they allege that I purchased a porn channel off satellite tv.

Now I know it wasn't me,

I am an open minded gal,

but pornography just aint my box of whatsits,

but someone else who was in my house at the time,

and who used my sky box and my debit card to pay for the channel without my consent.

 

This was done just before christmas and I didn't realise that they were taking money from my account until the new year.

 

I stopped the direct debit, and agreed to pay a token £1 a month until I had CCA'd them.

They obviously have no CCA but have cashed the postal order I sent them.

 

When I called up to talk about the account, the young lass on the phone screwed up kind of big time by not putting me on hold, and I heard her swearing about me to her boss.

 

I put a complaint in to her manager.

He phoned me back pretending to be bothered about the swearing incident, but ended the call by trying to get me to pay £10 a month off the debt.

 

They have passed the 12+2 on the CCA, cashed the postal order and I have invoiced them for dealing with them, currently standing at over £350, reported them to OFCOM, Trading Standards and the Office of Fair Trading.

 

They are a bunch of fools who don't know their asp from a hole in the ground.

[Duffers Mum]

Well this lovely company have now passed this alleged debt over to some mickey mouse firm of "solicitors" who say we have 7 days to pay or else the will issue court proceedings. Quite how they can issue court proceedings when there is no contract is beyond me, but they obviously think this will scare us to paying, which obviously it won't. Sent a letter to CFS in early August asking for a copy of the signed contract and an invoice, neither have been forthcoming, I guess we just write to these "solicitors" and tell them we have requested copy documents which haven't been supplied and to go forth and multiply. Is it worth CCAing CFS when we know there was no contract as nothing has been signed?