New Credit Card Offer

Mikc

Hi all, I have just had a phone call offering me a New TSH Gold credit card. It offers 0% for first year then 2% for life for any purpose & spending. They ask for any credit card number that you already have to verify your address. Has anyone else had a call from them. Their full name is Timeshare Holdings and customer care No is 08717119887. They already had my address and post code as he read it out to me. NO i did not give them any of my current card numbers. Sound very Dogy to me.


Mikc

Bismarck

thanks for the warning...not heard of them...it's alarming what they'll try and do....

clio

Some poor sole will give up the info they want. the worlds full of dodgy people out to make a quick few bob:(

dack_2

DOH! I feel soooo stupid sometimes.

I got a call from these as well and gave them my details. I felt uncomfortable when I was doing it so should have just said goodbye but didn't. It didn't help that earlier today I called Barclaycard Platinum to see if they had any BT offers going but they didn't, it all seemed such perfect timing. Obviously too good to be true!!

Anyway, I gave them details of my current account debit card (Maestro) and very shortly after I spoke to them I called Natwest to cancel the card. Hoping I did it in time!

In case it helps anyone else out I googled the phone number and came up with pchandshake dot com. The number appears on this website as a premium rate support hotline. The website itself looks pretty dodgy, badly written and nowhere on the site is the cost of the premium phone number indicated. Also, with a map of Britain on the website it looks like it is aimed at UK customers, and advertises its all-inclusive monthly fee as a better option than other providers premium support lines. Yet, in the small print it says the toll free support lines are not available to any members outside of the USA!!!!! In other words you end up paying the monthly fee PLUS a premium for each support call.

It's quite clear to me now that this company (TSH/pchandshake) loves making money on people's phone bills. I haven't called the number and won't but suspect the charges are very high.

Please BEWARE and don't be a stupid as I am

DestroyingAngel_2

Mikc,
If it sounds too good to be true, it always is. Personally, the minute I hear the word "timeshare" I'd be hanging up the phone. That phone call was a fishing expedition, they already had your address and postcode, they just needed a few more personal details before they could open up bank accounts and obtain credit in your name. If you have Identity Protection you may want to log this incident as potential identity theft.

ladbgd

It hapenned to me - THS Gold, and yes - it is to good to be true. I was offered the £7500 limit and the low rates, they knew my name, address, date of birth and husbands name. They asked for details of a card I currently use so they could validate my address - I gave them the details and the address was validated. Then it went to an 'approval' team, who asked if I would like to 'Support a Child' at £8.00 a month for one year, which would be deducted in one lump sum from my card. I said yes. Then I got a call back from the original bloke, who said they could not process my card. I asked which card, they said the one I had given them details of. I asked what they were trying to process, and they said the address validation. I said it has already been validated, and there is nothing they should be trying to process. They said the card has been declined (hahaha - I know it's maxed out at mo), and they needed a card with a balance on. I refused. Said they could deduct from the new card they were issuing me. Needless to say, I now need to cancel the card I gave them, which does carry Identity Fraud Protection with it. Usually I wuldn't waste my time with these phone calls, but they seemed to know all my personal details anyway!

Paulgonnabedebtfree

Mikc wrote: »

Hi all, I have just had a phone call offering me a New TSH Gold credit card. It offers 0% for first year then 2% for life for any purpose & spending. They ask for any credit card number that you already have to verify your address. Has anyone else had a call from them. Their full name is Timeshare Holdings and customer care No is 08717119887. They already had my address and post code as he read it out to me. NO i did not give them any of my current card numbers. Sound very Dogy to me.


Mikc

Even if it is genuine, did the caller specify that the 2% was per annum or per month?

sarahs999

It's just so outrageous that you can end up being scammed in your own home, just by answerng the phone. Supports my policy of never answering the phone until I've screened it - or letting my three year old answer it, who always goes 'HELLO?' at a decibel level likely to puncture eardrums, and then shouts to me, 'THERE'S NO ONE THERE MUMMY' and puts the phone down. It hasn't occured to him to try listening...

jsjt100

ladbgd wrote: »

It hapenned to me - THS Gold, and yes - it is to good to be true. I was offered the £7500 limit and the low rates, they knew my name, address, date of birth and husbands name. They asked for details of a card I currently use so they could validate my address - I gave them the details and the address was validated. Then it went to an 'approval' team, who asked if I would like to 'Support a Child' at £8.00 a month for one year, which would be deducted in one lump sum from my card. I said yes. Then I got a call back from the original bloke, who said they could not process my card. I asked which card, they said the one I had given them details of. I asked what they were trying to process, and they said the address validation. I said it has already been validated, and there is nothing they should be trying to process. They said the card has been declined (hahaha - I know it's maxed out at mo), and they needed a card with a balance on. I refused. Said they could deduct from the new card they were issuing me. Needless to say, I now need to cancel the card I gave them, which does carry Identity Fraud Protection with it. Usually I wuldn't waste my time with these phone calls, but they seemed to know all my personal details anyway!

I have just received a call from THS Credit Card, under their other name of 'Save a Child' they offered me £4000 interest free credit card for 12 months, they also wanted me to pay £6.00 a month on my credit card to Save a Child. They had my card details and personal details. Don't know where they got this information from.
I then researched the card and came across this forum, should have come here first as I think Martin is great. Anyway read the feedback, feel very stupid and annoyed for being taken in. I usually put the phone down as soon as here the accent. Have cancelled my debit card.
Just received another call from this company, I said I wanted to cancel everything as I had read negative feedback regarding them on the internet. They wanted to know the name of the site, before I could say anything the line went dead!! Very suspicious.

hypnonoel

By Partner just recieved a call from these people. Offering 4K limit. They had almost all her details, Thankfully I realised what was going on.

Does anyone know where they may have got her details?

Jemma-T

If someone were to post some of their private info on this thread many could dig up loads within a few seconds just by checking amended (or not) electoral, phone and council tax records.

If you give out/confirm your details then they're not your details (you just gave them away) and you're at fault.