SYH4free (sell your house for free) scam or real?

buddasmum_2

A friend of mine has been scfrewed over by these bunch of pricks.

Paid the 1%, a few weeks later told that there was a problem with the credit payment even though they had provided a "receipt" and taken the money, they then procedded to issue a refund and sent this refund receipt to me and asked for me to make a payment by chaps - they did this.

They still have not received the original refund to the card, "pricks" as they will now be lovingly known in these parts but they have said that they will refund the second payment - they have sent a receipt and a letter the letter is the correct amount owing BUT the receipt is for 8.5k.

they screwed up (still not seen any of the money) but they are now saying I am defrauding them of money?

All I can say is they are defiantly a scam and for anyone interested companies house has the following

DIRECTOR: RAMZAN, MOHAMMED
Appointed: 15/01/2010 Date of Birth: 22/09/1976
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Appointments: 2
Address: DALTON HOUSE 60 WINDSOR AVENUE, LONDON, SW19 2RR

Please note that this address is the same address that the company operates from and this is a VIRTUAL address so not worth the paper its been written on

SECRETARY: HILLIER, DERYK GEORGE MR
Appointed: 24/09/2009
Nationality: NATIONALITY UNKNOWN
No. of Appointments: 2
Address: 5 GARDENFIELDS, DUNCAN ROAD, TADWORTH, SURREY, KT20 6DR

The secretary was actually the director when the company when registered back in september 2009, but transfered the directorship over to Mohammed.

Im sure companies house missed something though as he hasn't actually given his home address as requested in part 4a of the transfer pages.

All I am after now is some phone numbers for these guys then I will be able to give them a ring and ask for any monies owing back - 3 am would be a good time to to get them in I am sure to ask .

So anyway if they want to take me to court for libel or slander I will gladly go - worth a laugh

Any way the whole company, the director and secretary are a waste of space they are just out there to screw you out of your hard earned cash. I also feel sorry for the staff as no doubt they will be screwed by these pricks in the near future.

binnybin

Hmm this is a nasty new development, send you a receipt for £7 or £8 grand and try to frighten you into sending them money back!!!
Surely this must be one for the Police or isnt fraud illegal anymore???

CathP_2

I managed to get a mobile number for David Shaw (he rang me by mistake on it one time!) and I don't care who knows it - 07900 345445. I have actually just tried to call it and it was on vodaphone voicemail service.

LynseyF_2

Michael Rolls 07761951571
Interesting as I was scammed by these people. I paid by credit card, they charged me double what the fee was and immediately refunded half of it. I got a receipt for the full charge and the refund in Dec 2009. Then in Jan I got a letter telling me my card payment had been refunded and I had to pay by bank transfer, I was already chasing my 1% with the credit card company. The refund receipt they sent me at the end of Jan was dated 4th Dec - this was the refund I already had, they still had my 1%. In Feb 2010 they charged my card again, a random amount of money and more than the initial 1%. I have since got all of my money back from Barclaycard but this is the interesting bit. Going back almost 3 years my bank account was defrauded of almost £3,000, somone tried to make 2 payments into their own bank through internet banking... The name of the person MOHAMMED RAMZAN.

Absolute thieving scum, I hope they are nailed.

macxter

i got my 1% back as i said before but i changed my card details before this as i feared this type of thing might happen.thieving scum.

comet3

Bloody scumbags....

We rang SYH4F again this morning as after being told 5 days ago that their accounts dept would ring me back within the hour I still had not heard anything... when they answered the phone, they never even gave out the name of the company, just said 'hello'. Does that mean they are due for a name change soon, and don't know what to answer the phone with at the moment?... anyway, after being told a lot of rubbish again, being told a different completion date to a previous one, and them not knowing a thing about cetain aspects that we told them about our sale, we asked when we would get the 10% returned from our 1% which we sent a month ago. The chap said he would look into it! (as if!), we then decided to make a trip to our local citizens advice bureau, and after going over the whold saga was told that it looked 99% a scam, and he doubted as we paid by bank transfer (to a Lloyds bank account), very much that we would ever see our money again. He did give us a number of a consumer company to see if they had any records of SYH4F, we tried to ring, but they were busy, so will try again tomorrow...... Not much good when even the citzens advice bureau think we've lost a whole lot of money and haven't got a chance in hell of getting it back.... I will keep you posted

the_barber_2

Don't know if any of you guys have had dealings with similar companies like this, I have, and David Shaw sounds exactly like another David only with a different surname who used to work for another bunch of !!!!!! who decided to do a runner with our cash. His surname there was Webb and he had quite a distinctive voice, only heard his voice once at SYH4FREE but seems quite a coincidence that they had the same tone of voice and both worked for dodgy property companies. That company was called First Direct Investments (INT) Ltd, I'm having trouble getting a refund on my credit card though as their status on companies house is still showing active, even though they ceased trading last summer. Feel free to email me if you like and I will reveal as much as possible.

TruthSeeker_3

I have been advised by the police to post on this forum to ask if anyone else has contacted the police, those of you that have please come foward and e-mail me at thetruthseeker553@hushmail.com
For those of you haven't you should do so now.

g_attrill

TruthSeeker wrote: »

I have been advised by the police to post on this forum to ask if anyone else has contacted the police, those of you that have please come foward and e-mail me at [EMAIL="thetruthseeker553@hushmail.com"]thetruthseeker553@hushmail.com[/EMAIL]
For those of you haven't you should do so now.

I don't think this is a good idea - if you have a police contact who wants to collate reports please post their name, force, collar number and telephone number here (or at least the force and phone number).

binnybin

I agree it is not a good idea to publish your email address on this forum as you never know who is posting or viewing.
If the Police are interested then let us know who to contact and we can all send details, i personally have kept all the emails and documentation from these !!!!!! so there's lots of evidence.
Truthseeker I notice this is your first post, have you also lost money?