UK-passport.net

moneysaver43533

I wouldn't suggest anyone be untruthful, however, if for instance you didn't received your passport application from these less than scrupulous companies - and they have no way to know you had received it or not which is a fact. Then you could insist they refund you on the basis they hadn't provided a service at all. You could also enforce this via your credit card company. Obviously, by the time you'd realised they hadn't sent it to you, you had to rush an application in over the weekend using the post office forms, and therefore they couldn't fulfil the service at that point.


You could also formally demand that they remove all of your personal information and provide written confirmation of this (under the DPA). I wouldn't want these sorts of cowboy companies having this very personal information.

hpuse

moneysaver43533 wrote: »

I wouldn't suggest anyone be untruthful, however, if for instance you didn't received your passport application from these less than scrupulous companies - and they have no way to know you had received it or not which is a fact. Then you could insist they refund you on the basis they hadn't provided a service at all. You could also enforce this via your credit card company. Obviously, by the time you'd realised they hadn't sent it to you, you had to rush an application in over the weekend using the post office forms, and therefore they couldn't fulfil the service at that point.


You could also formally demand that they remove all of your personal information and provide written confirmation of this (under the DPA). I wouldn't want these sorts of cowboy companies having this very personal information.

If you are concerned about potential fraud as a result of using any of passport application copycat websites - then please report it to HMPO, not Action Fraud..

http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/Action-Fraud-remit

Valli

Passport application fraud isn't the same as using these clone websites.

Passport application fraud is fraudently applying for a passport; ie applying for one under false pretences.

*sigh*

MrsCrafty

I just want to let you all know that I used this service, few wines, sat down to apply for passport online. After chasing the passport office I was advised that I had used a third party website.

Thankfully for me, MasterCard was happy to raise this as a dispute! So I should get my money back. I didn't fill in form properly and they didn't send me a form!

Very stupid of me.

Kernow666

anyone who gets scammed this way shouldnt be allowed to have a passport

MrsCrafty

Kernow666 wrote: »

anyone who gets scammed this way shouldnt be allowed to have a passport

I agree, this is the first time I have had a problem with anything like this.

My friends have all laughed their cods off, Mr crafty hasn't stopped calling me a @&£) yet and everyone is finding this hilarious!

Methinks my punishment has been bad already.........

Can I go to the Andamon Islands now?

MrsCrafty

Oh and I would like to add that Lloyds sent me a letter asking me what was wrong? I have no accounts with Lloyds whatsoever! I shall not be answering.

powerful_Rogue

keith-66 wrote: »

Same here I ignored it.
mrscrafty,
there are few bunch of legal vigilantes upholding these websites here.
they con and scam thousands of pounds but what still matters is they're legal.

if they bully you like they did to hpuse, I'll keep an eye out dive in and give them what those losers much deserve. they wont play with me like they drove hpuse away and now losers thinking I'm hpuse. :ROFL

keith-66 wrote: »

Full money refunded... hurrah!!
if anyone doesn't believe send me mesg I will show the proof

Keith,

When are you going to show a screenshot of the chargeback you claim you received?

RosiPossum

keith-66 wrote: »

Same here I ignored it.
mrscrafty,
there are few bunch of legal vigilantes upholding these websites here.
they con and scam thousands of pounds but what still matters is they're legal.

if they bully you like they did to hpuse, I'll keep an eye out dive in and give them what those losers much deserve. they wont play with me like they drove hpuse away and now losers thinking I'm hpuse. :ROFL

Oh !!!!!!. People are not in favour of these sites! They're just pointing out that disputes aren't the right course of action because the sites in question can and will show that they haven't misled. The banks have no choice but to go on the side of the website when they are shown that the consumer was told what they were paying for.
There is every right to a dispute when the consumer didn't receive the explained service, as MrsCrafty didn't. It's an entirely different kettle of fish if the consumer doesn't receive their forms.
When are you going to understand that no-one is bullying anyone, and no-one is on the side of these sites?!

RosiPossum

And people think you're hpuse because of the way you write. It's exactly the same and just as incoherent. That's the only reason!