CashYourGoldNow.co.uk- Scam or NOT!?

headjustabovewater

Hi there Money Savers, I was wondering if anyone else has come across this far to good to be true offer in todays The Sun newspaper on page 50.
The full page advert offers a FREE 5* Holiday for 2 in Turkey when you Cash £50 worth of Gold in August! The website is CashYourGoldNow.co.uk .
As I have I'm sure you are thinking this sounds FAR too good to be true!!!
Has anyone else seen this or indead applied kit in which you can Post your Gold to them!!!
If this is a genuine offer then Mint:beer:!!!!
If not I don't wana get stung by sending my family heirlooms in retuen for some dodgy "Timeshare" Style Holiday of doom!

All responses will be gratefully received.

headjustabovewater

Hiya little monkey, yeah i've been to the website, was wondering if anyone was aware if it was a scam or not????????
Thanks for your reply tho!

Mozette

if it sounds too good to be true... you know the rest!

Browntoa

despite its Uk domain , seems to be an American company ??

Browntoa

this is the man who owns the holiday company, not good reading

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2008/11/the-catch-in-the-20-break-from.html

gradair

cashyourgoldnow is a scam! I sent in 180g of 9 carat gold expecting around £300 and the free holiday, they sent me a cheque for £49 (just under the limit of £50 for the holiday).I did, after sending back their cheque get my gold back however I'm sure lots of people resigned themselves to the paltry sum offered!
After researching it turns out it's run by an organisation kelly media ,linked to religious Americans who beg for donations through tv and e-mail etc

lorweld

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jenikent

hi all, a newbie here today but need to run a phone call i got to my mobile at 16.40 last wednesday by your experts. it was a london number 020 3301 5297. an operative claiming to be onb her 2nd day at the job called to offer me £200 repayment for every £20 bank charge i've ever had. she said it's illegal for banks to charge us at all & their company are sucessfully reclaiming this money back for its clients. she asked for £200 payment over the phone in return for the reclaiming pack by post. she said its one payment for each household & my husband could also make his claims via this one info pack. her supervisor came on the phone opologising for her new staffs lack of knowledge & no wanting to give me wrong information she finished off the call by promising to call back 7pm on 27th september as i told her i wouldn't have access to any funds until this date (my payday!)
can anyone tell me if this is coche? scam or no scam? that is the question!

dacouch

Its a scam, you can claim your bank charges back yourself for nothing, if you look on the main MSE site there is plenty of advice from Martin and even template letters for reclaiming the charges.

There is even a forum on MSE that deals with reclaiming bank charges

worried_jim

jenikent wrote: »

hi all, a newbie here today but need to run a phone call i got to my mobile at 16.40 last wednesday by your experts. it was a london number 020 3301 5297. an operative claiming to be onb her 2nd day at the job called to offer me £200 repayment for every £20 bank charge i've ever had. she said it's illegal for banks to charge us at all & their company are sucessfully reclaiming this money back for its clients. she asked for £200 payment over the phone in return for the reclaiming pack by post. she said its one payment for each household & my husband could also make his claims via this one info pack. her supervisor came on the phone opologising for her new staffs lack of knowledge & no wanting to give me wrong information she finished off the call by promising to call back 7pm on 27th september as i told her i wouldn't have access to any funds until this date (my payday!)
can anyone tell me if this is coche? scam or no scam? that is the question!

It is a total scam. see-
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Calls.aspx/020/m
for example-
I WAS CONNED BIG TIME - THIS IS LONG!!!
I received a phone call form these people, saying they were from The Bank Reclaim Department. And that they had a sum of £2536 of bank charges due to me. They confirmed all my bank details to me over the phone, which at this point I thought it was genuine. To recevie this money I first had to go to the post office and get a Monygram Send Form and pay £164 and get the reference no. for them to release the money. The receiver's name tobe put on the Moneygram was SHREYA SINGH.

When they called back to get the ref. no. they told me I had to make a further payment of £120 in-order for the full amount tobe paid into my account and the £164 would be re-funded to me. This was tobe paid to MEENU JAIN. I did this gave the ref. no. and was told I would receive a phone call back to let me know that the money will be transfered into my account. That call didn't come, and the money wasn't transfered to my account.

I did however receive a call from them the next day, saying that there had been an error on the system and I needed to pay £300 to receive now £4536, which included monies I had already paid to them. This was tobe paid to USHA AHUJA. As before ref. no. given the money wasn't transfered into my account, and no return phone call to let me know what was happening.

The next day where I received a call from MR JOHN McLOYD Senior Manager.

He told me that the agent dealing with me had been terminated as she was misinforming people about how to make the payments and requested a further £300 and told me I would then receive £8236, which included all monies I had already paid. I informed him that the mistake was on there part and that they should return my money or take it out of the money I had already paid. He told me this couldn'd be done and gave me an hour to get the money together, give him the ref. no. and the full amount would be paid into my account.

He called back within the hour to ask if I had made the payment, which I told him I couldn't make anymore payments. He said I should make the payment or lose the monies and it would go to charity as unclaimed. I told him I had no more money to give and he ended the call.

Names for the payments were to:
SHREYA SINGH
MEENU JAIN
USHA AHUJA
Name of Senior Manager JOHN McLOYD
I WAS CONNED BIG TIME!!!!! DON'T LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU!!!!

LemonGrove

jenikent wrote: »

hi all, a newbie here today but need to run a phone call i got to my mobile at 16.40 last wednesday by your experts. it was a london number 020 3301 5297. an operative claiming to be onb her 2nd day at the job called to offer me £200 repayment for every £20 bank charge i've ever had. she said it's illegal for banks to charge us at all & their company are sucessfully reclaiming this money back for its clients. she asked for £200 payment over the phone in return for the reclaiming pack by post. she said its one payment for each household & my husband could also make his claims via this one info pack. her supervisor came on the phone opologising for her new staffs lack of knowledge & no wanting to give me wrong information she finished off the call by promising to call back 7pm on 27th september as i told her i wouldn't have access to any funds until this date (my payday!)
can anyone tell me if this is coche? scam or no scam? that is the question!

worried_jim wrote: »

It is a total scam. see-
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Calls.aspx/020/m
for example-
I WAS CONNED BIG TIME - THIS IS LONG!!!
I received a phone call form these people, saying they were from The Bank Reclaim Department. And that they had a sum of £2536 of bank charges due to me. They confirmed all my bank details to me over the phone, which at this point I thought it was genuine. To recevie this money I first had to go to the post office and get a Monygram Send Form and pay £164 and get the reference no. for them to release the money. The receiver's name tobe put on the Moneygram was SHREYA SINGH.

When they called back to get the ref. no. they told me I had to make a further payment of £120 in-order for the full amount tobe paid into my account and the £164 would be re-funded to me. This was tobe paid to MEENU JAIN. I did this gave the ref. no. and was told I would receive a phone call back to let me know that the money will be transfered into my account. That call didn't come, and the money wasn't transfered to my account.

I did however receive a call from them the next day, saying that there had been an error on the system and I needed to pay £300 to receive now £4536, which included monies I had already paid to them. This was tobe paid to USHA AHUJA. As before ref. no. given the money wasn't transfered into my account, and no return phone call to let me know what was happening.

The next day where I received a call from MR JOHN McLOYD Senior Manager.

He told me that the agent dealing with me had been terminated as she was misinforming people about how to make the payments and requested a further £300 and told me I would then receive £8236, which included all monies I had already paid. I informed him that the mistake was on there part and that they should return my money or take it out of the money I had already paid. He told me this couldn'd be done and gave me an hour to get the money together, give him the ref. no. and the full amount would be paid into my account.

He called back within the hour to ask if I had made the payment, which I told him I couldn't make anymore payments. He said I should make the payment or lose the monies and it would go to charity as unclaimed. I told him I had no more money to give and he ended the call.

Names for the payments were to:
SHREYA SINGH
MEENU JAIN
USHA AHUJA
Name of Senior Manager JOHN McLOYD
I WAS CONNED BIG TIME!!!!! DON'T LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU!!!!

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