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Name & Registered Office:

BISHOP INVESTIGATIONS & SECURITY SERVICES LIMITED

20-22 BEDFORD ROW

LONDON

WC1R 4JS

Company No. 05622811

 

spacer.gifspacer.gifspacer.gifspacer.gifStatus: Active

Date of Incorporation: 15/11/2005

 

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Company Type: Private Limited Company

Nature of Business (SIC(03)):

None Supplied

Accounting Reference Date: 31/12

Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED)

Next Accounts Due: 15/09/2007

Last Return Made Up To:

Next Return Due: 13/12/2006

Previous Names:Date of changePrevious Name19/12/2005BROOMCO (3932) LIMITED

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Thanks for the info Terminator

 

Am still puzzled as to what type of business they are, reason I ask is that they claim to be a tracing agency, yet in the letter they sent me, they are threatening "Statutory Demand" blah, blah, etc

 

No point in me sending them a CCA letter if they are not a DCA?

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Apparently they are a detective and investigations agency!! Is their contact address in Croydon?

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They are probably trying to find out if there is any point in pursuing you

for a debt. It may be too late now, but it might be an idea to call your bank

and ask if anyone has contacted them about you in the past few weeks.

Either by phone or in writing-asking for a bank reference for instance.

If your bank uses call centres abroad, then the agency probably knows

how much is in your bank account, plus your salary etc.

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Just read the papers about it. You have a situation where some banks have

transferred their callcentres abroad because they pay their operators over

there a lot less than they used to pay here.

It would be difficult for a worker there, on being offered a weeks wages to divulge personal information about someone possibly on the other side of the world and who they knew nothing about, nor cared, to refuse that kind of

temptation.

The surprising thing is that to date, the moving of call centres abroad does

not seem to have provoked a protest under the Data Protection Act.

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Name & Registered Office:

BISHOP INVESTIGATIONS & SECURITY SERVICES LIMITED

20-22 BEDFORD ROW

LONDON

WC1R 4JS

Company No. 05622811

 

spacer.gifspacer.gifspacer.gifspacer.gifStatus: Active

Date of Incorporation: 15/11/2005

 

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Company Type: Private Limited Company

Nature of Business (SIC(03)):

None Supplied

Accounting Reference Date: 31/12

Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED)

Next Accounts Due: 15/09/2007

Last Return Made Up To:

Next Return Due: 13/12/2006

Previous Names:Date of changePrevious Name19/12/2005BROOMCO (3932) LIMITED

 

 

 

Bishop Investigations

 

02086803363

Airport House , Purley Way , Croydon , Surrey CR0 0XZ

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P.O.E.T -just in case you don't read newspapers, here is an article from the

Information Commissioners Office, following a television program looking at

information being obtained from call centres that was broadcast in October

of this year-

 

Date: 6 October 2006

Information Commissioner takes action over call centre abuse

David Smith, Deputy Commissioner, said:

"Following evidence of illegal buying and selling of personal information

shown on Channel 4's Dispatches programme on 5 October 2006, the

Information Commissioner's Office has immediately launched an

investigation.

It appears that some mobile phone companies' call centres in India are

being targeted by criminals intent on unlawfully obtaining UK citizens'

financial records and this will be the focus of our investigation.

We are concerned by any breaches of security particularly if they involve

confidential banking details. UK organisations are responsible for the

security of their customer information. If they use an outsourced call

centre whether in the UK or India, the Data Protection Act requires them to

ensure that adequate security is in place in the call centre. We provide

clear guidance to organisations that outsource overseas to help them

ensure people’s personal information is secure and is processed in line

with data protection principles.

This issue - where people sell on personal information for a price - is not

confined to India. As our report, What Price Privacy?, shows it happens in

the UK and it is a criminal offence. Where we find evidence of breaches of

the Data Protection Act we do have powers to take formal action and we

do bring prosecutions.

Depending on the outcome of our investigation we will consider whether

we need to use our formal enforcement powers to prevent incidents like

this happening again in the future. Ultimately this could include ordering a

company to stop processing personal information outside the UK."

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You might be right but I find it very hard to believe private dicks like this would go to all the trouble, expense and legal risk to get information on a debtor. It certainly couldn't be used in court to refute a plea of poverty. I heard they often go in for fake doorstep survey type activity to gauge the punter's position.

"Why CCJ when you can CCA!"

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I would have thought poorly paid call centre workers would be targeted by gangs wishing to empty your accounts and create false identities rather than Croydon based dicks..... but stranger things have happened.

 

That's what I read too and it's not just the foreign call centres - police reckon most of the Glasgow financial call centres have been infiltrated by crooks. Anyway must'nt hijack the thread.

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In the past, companies I have worked for [not in debt collection admittedly]

have employed investigators to supply financial information. We would get

back things like how much was outstanding on a mortgage, the value of

the house, bank account details including the average cleared balance.

And if you read the OFT website you will find investigators here losing their

licences for data protection infringements-work it out for yourselves.

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Bishop Investigations is (I believe) a trading name of another collection agency - I'm not 100% sure without checking, but the Croydon address rings a bell, and I have a feeling it's Commercial Credit Services. They trade under various names - a common tactic. I'm not sure I'd take the word 'Investigations' too seriously... it'll be the usual scare tactics.

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Not sure if anyones still following this thread....

Chip, Commercial and Connaught are at the same address as ive had 2 alleged debts passed between them and bishop's.

There are other cases just com to light about Bishops.

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