Fastline Legal Service SL

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benjus wrote: »

hmmm... I wonder if eliot3333 is really a customer of Fastline - or an employee. His written English certainly has a Spanish "accent" to it... Of course Fast Line may have Spanish customers, but their website is entirely in English so their target clients are obviously English property buyers.

Hi Benjus, wow, it seems that you are correct! I received an update today so I called Fastline Legal Services and asked about this. They do not think that Elliott is a client as a client would know that they are not a subsidiary of a company called Greenges 2005 SL and an employee would never say that. Donna said that many timeshare resale companies do this trick to bamboozle timeshare owners, and divert them to blog sites that are under their own control, when they try to seek advice. You would think that timeshare companies would have more important work to do than to spend time badly writing posts.

Marg6063

Has anyone actually had a successful claim against MRI through Fast Line Legal Services?

alim999

I have just registered as was searching for latest information on Fastline. I have paid £1600 upfront to them a year ago and they promised me the claim against DHWW and will take a year. I don't mind the wait but I have sent them numerous emails to get some proof that they have registered a claim in a Spanish court on my behalf. They have failed to provide me any such proof. I found a legitimate firm in South Spain through a Spanish friend and they are willing to investigate Fastline but I would have to pay their legal fee £300 and further fee to take Fastline to court to recover my fee as they also suspect Fastline is running a scam.

Kazib

Hi, I too have registered on this site as I have signed up with Fastline legal services.

I was approached by Fastline in July 2014 regarding our dealings with an MRI purchase.
Fast line have appeared to be very professional and after lots of communication we decided to sign up with them.
Fastline are confident that we are eligible for a substantial amount of compensation as I have kept every single piece of paper & email evidence of our purchase through MRI.

We have paid them a translation and Notary fee last month and so far haven't received any further communication.
They have estimated that it will take around a year for the claim to be resolved.

I will keep updates on our journey which we are hoping will end up with a happy ending! Feeling optimistic.....

Williis

I got contacted by a very rude Spencer Fairchild and later by Melinda Darcy. I will not be using sending her any paperwork. she could not answer my questions and seem to be reading a script. i have read comments on othersites and put mine there as well.

alim999

alim999 wrote: »

I have just registered as was searching for latest information on Fastline. I have paid £1600 upfront to them a year ago and they promised me the claim against DHWW and will take a year. I don't mind the wait but I have sent them numerous emails to get some proof that they have registered a claim in a Spanish court on my behalf. They have failed to provide me any such proof. I found a legitimate firm in South Spain through a Spanish friend and they are willing to investigate Fastline but I would have to pay their legal fee £300 and further fee to take Fastline to court to recover my fee as they also suspect Fastline is running a scam.

Please do not waist your money and time on this firm. I still not had any proof despite paying upfront fee £1600 in November 2013. Fortunately I paid through my credit card and thank God we live in the UK with some consumer protection. I have reported them to the credit card company and got my money back. I have also reported them to FCA as well police and fraud action to prevent other victims. It's shocking that a firm within the EU can defraud victims in another member state and There is no EU wide mechanism or protection for consumers.

alim999

alim999 wrote: »

Please do not waist your money and time on this firm. I still not had any proof despite paying upfront fee £1600 in November 2013. Fortunately I paid through my credit card and thank God we live in the UK with some consumer protection. I have reported them to the credit card company and got my money back. I have also reported them to FCA as well police and fraud action to prevent other victims. It's shocking that a firm within the EU can defraud victims in another member state and There is no EU wide mechanism or protection for consumers.

I would urge you all to ask them for refund of your fee within specified period and if they fail to do so (which is what will happen) you should report them like I have

alim999

Families conned out of millions in life savings after handing over cash for luxury seaview apartment in the UAE to a 'shyster developer'

By Ollie Gillman for MailOnline
12:12 20 Nov 2014, updated 12:34 21 Nov 2014

alim999

See response from FK
Daily Mail or Daily Toilet Paper?

Character assassination of prominent Dubai entrepreneur breaches Editors’ Code of Practice

By Richard Grant

One-sided reporting, especially of the over-emotive, sensational variety, leads to one type of journalism: biased and subjective. With no regard for unvarnished truth, ethics, integrity, honesty or honour, slanted reporting does to the truth what pornography does to sexual intimacy - it merely trivialises and sensationalises human relationships to their basest, lowest common dominator. This is precisely what a recent article in the London Daily Mail did when it performed a ‘hatchet-job’ on a prominent, respected property developer and entrepreneur Frank Khoie in Dubai.



Abandoning any pretence to conducting the honourable craft of balanced investigation, the Daily Mail feature was clearly cobbled together on the flimsiest of ‘evidence’ provided by interviewees with sharp axes to grind.

Detailed research, painstaking fact-checking and coherent analysis of a complicated matter, could have produced an article worthy of readers’ time and contemplation. In the event, the Daily Mail (renowned for its intrusive, sanctimonious approaches to all manner of subjects) revealed it has absolutely no regards for the truth and will publish anything without any proper checks and balances of the merits of the story –let alone talking to all relevant parties. Especially the individual grossly defamed and unfairly castigated by the publication.

The article (link below) reads like an interview with Charlie Manson who cut Sharon Tate’s stomach and tore out her six-month old baby, cut her head off, drank the foetus’ blood and then told the Daily Mail that he was innocent and had unjustly lost years of his life in prison.

By talking to a few speculators, the Daily Mail exposed its own lazy, sleazy ‘journalism’. People like Geoff Land, who took advantage of the strong Sterling back in 2007 and invested barrowed money with the greed that he would make a killing overnight in the Dubai property boom, did not even have the slightest investor mentality of an amateur to realise that a fast buck is not made overnight in the real estate market. On the contrary, investing in real estate was - and always has been - a long-term proposition; it is not an investment class for the faint hearted or smart Alecs.

Such were the sad cases of ‘aggrieved’ investors hoping to get rich overnight who then went crying to a daily toilet paper tabloid-masquerading-as-a-serious newspaper like the Daily Mail to publish their own prejudiced story, a classic example of a ‘poor me/boo-hoo’ lament without any reference to the whole story or its macroeconomic context. And this is the pathetic state of affairs of free speech in the internet age?




The facts of the matter are patently clear for anyone with a semblance of intellectual acuity and of sound mental judgement: Frank Khoie, a dynamic entrepreneur with over 40 years’ experience in business around the world, is a devout Christian. He exudes the highest degree of integrity and honesty. Yet he fell victim to and suffered greatly at the hands of an incomplete system in a new country in the making, grossly victimized by a venal, corrupt official who wanted to steal Khoie’s innovative project and thus undermined all his entrepreneurial efforts. It was this corrupt, Government official named Khater Masaad who is now a fugitive who engineered Khoie’s La Hoya Bay project delays.

Despite this great and egregious calumny heaped upon a remarkable businessman, Frank Khoie is still standing and fighting to rescue the jeopardised project. Why? Because he is committed to moral principles of protecting and honoring his 700 customers’ interests. Then to have a daily toilet paper like the London Daily Mail publish bunch of outright lies and exaggerations without any regards to truth is the height of moral bankruptcy of those responsible for such an article.




Given the fact that the Daily Mail was brought before the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British Press following the News International phone-hacking scandal, it should be aware of The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), a new Press regulator created in September 2014. The regulator is charged with enforcing the Editors’ Code of Practice, the contractual agreement between IPSO and newspaper, magazine and electronic news publishers.

Within this remit, all members of the British Press (including the Daily Mail) have a duty to maintain ‘the highest professional standards’. The Code sets the benchmark for those ethical standards, protecting both the rights of the individual and the public's right to know. It is the cornerstone of the system of self-regulation to which the industry has made a binding commitment.

According to the IPSO: “It is essential that an agreed code be honoured not only to the letter but in the full spirit. It should not be interpreted so narrowly as to compromise its commitment to respect the rights of the individual, nor so broadly that it constitutes an unnecessary interference with freedom of expression or prevents publication in the public interest.

“It is the responsibility of editors and publishers to apply the Code to editorial material in both printed and online versions of publications. They should take care to ensure it is observed rigorously by all editorial staff and external contributors, including non-journalists, in printed and online versions of publications.”




The IPSO goes on the urge that all editors co-operate swiftly with the Independent Press Standards Organisation CIC (the ‘Regulator') in the resolution of complaints.


As for the Daily Mail’s article in relation to Khoie Properties’ Lay Hoya Bay, by maligning the reputation of the development’s Chairman &CEO, Frank Khoie, the article has summarily breached Clause 1, ‘Accuracy’:

i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures.

ii) A significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distortion once recognised must be corrected, promptly and with due prominence, and - where appropriate - an apology published. In cases involving the Regulator, prominence should be agreed with the Regulator in advance.

iii) The Press, whilst free to be partisan, must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact.

iv) A publication must report fairly and accurately the outcome of an action for defamation to which it has been a party, unless an agreed settlement states otherwise, or an agreed statement is published.




Blames everyone else still no remorse
In relation to these clear breaches of the IPSO’s Code of Practice for Editors of the British Press, Frank Khoie shall be issuing a formal complaint about the Daily Mail article with a view to the regulator imposing sanctions on the ‘newspaper’ including the nature, extent and placement of corrections, plus a fair opportunity to reply to inaccuracies in the offending feature, as permitted by the Code’s Clause 2 ‘Opportunity to reply’.

moonmaiden1

The only one who says they've received money from Fastline is Regjam - and who knows if that is genuine? Sorry regjam if you are for real!

I paid £750 in late 2013, by credit card as they suggested, but could not get back when I enquired last year from my cc company because it was a click and collect transaction, even though click and collect provided details of the payee.

Had the lawyer checked by Spanish consul in London (luckily am very close to them and they are helpful). Lawyer is on the bar and they spoke to her - however, as we well know there are dodgy registered lawyers.

Fastline are at a genuine address and Donna Smythe is always very helpful, not always easy to get hold of, but will call back. Last July she asked for POA as going into court gateway. She said get from consul, much cheaper -and it was, only £20.
Consul say Fastline may be for real as they have done POA's for them for a long time and scam companies usually disappear sooner.

Anyway, the latest scam is this: got call from Lisa Barrett in "foreigners court completions dept" in Malaga and was asked to contact Louise Martin to release an award of 16,950 Euros. She had a mobile number (34-602 418 361) and said it was "a walkie talkie for use outside her office". I checked with Donna at FastLine, who said it was a SCAM, and they had passed details to the police. She said a few people had parted with money, one elderly man as much as £3000. So I played along with it to get more info. Sting came when Louise asked for £998 to "release funds in full". She wouldn't send email or any paperwork and said if it wasn't released by next Monday, the "funds would be reallocated". So at least I got bank transfer and beneficiary details, gave her fake details for my account.