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Contacted by unknown accident claims company after accident. Advice please.
Not_Me_Officer
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Firstly is this the most suitable forum for this thread? If i'm better putting it in one of the other forums then please let me know.
Some of you may have read my previous thread in here about the accident i had last week where someone pulled in to me whilst overtaking a number of cars. Tonight i was contacted by some accident claims company.
At first i was going to just tell them not interested which is my knee-jerk reaction to those types of phone calls, however a few years ago someone reversed into my mother while she was parked & she was contacted by one of these companies and ended up getting a bit of a pay out from it last year. I think it was about £500 in the end but better than nothing so i decided to entertain the phone call.
The line was quite poor and to make it even worse they sounded like they came from the east (and i don't mean Newcastle) with their accent being quite strong which i always struggle understanding anyway so i had to get them to repeat themselves a good number of times before i decided to just throw in some yeah's after they paused & hoped it was the right answer.
They asked for my details, name & address & said they'd send me a letter and an email & i was to fill the form out with the password they would email me. All sounded very similar to what my mother had to do. They wanted me to access my email there and then but i said i was unable to as i was at work. They told me they'd call back tomorrow after i had chance to read through the form.
However where the similarity with my mothers case ends is the name. With my mother two eastern blokes came out asking for details & it all seemed quite shifty but they gave a company name which when googled it actually returned a result.
I have had an email from the sender "Heartelligence Company" and when i google it i see nothing at all, which is worrying (to me at least).
Speaking with my brother tonight as my mother is away, he said that he's sure her case also had to go to court as the other guy was challenging it, even though there were witnesses to him reversing in to her. He told me the third party got all details of it.
So what also concerns me here is what details exactly the third party may get from this. I'll assume he will get my name but address also? You don't know what sort of nutters you're dealing with and a supermarket car park bump at crawling speeds is one thing but a lunatic trying to take 3-4 cars at once with oncoming traffic & pulling in to you? I wonder.
Has anyone heard of this company? I just want to throw it out there to see what others thing & what you'd do as i'm a bit unsure. If there's a chance to pick up a payout then i'm there, but is it all legit i wonder.
The email also appears strange to me (echosign@echosign.com)
Some of you may have read my previous thread in here about the accident i had last week where someone pulled in to me whilst overtaking a number of cars. Tonight i was contacted by some accident claims company.
At first i was going to just tell them not interested which is my knee-jerk reaction to those types of phone calls, however a few years ago someone reversed into my mother while she was parked & she was contacted by one of these companies and ended up getting a bit of a pay out from it last year. I think it was about £500 in the end but better than nothing so i decided to entertain the phone call.
The line was quite poor and to make it even worse they sounded like they came from the east (and i don't mean Newcastle) with their accent being quite strong which i always struggle understanding anyway so i had to get them to repeat themselves a good number of times before i decided to just throw in some yeah's after they paused & hoped it was the right answer.
They asked for my details, name & address & said they'd send me a letter and an email & i was to fill the form out with the password they would email me. All sounded very similar to what my mother had to do. They wanted me to access my email there and then but i said i was unable to as i was at work. They told me they'd call back tomorrow after i had chance to read through the form.
However where the similarity with my mothers case ends is the name. With my mother two eastern blokes came out asking for details & it all seemed quite shifty but they gave a company name which when googled it actually returned a result.
I have had an email from the sender "Heartelligence Company" and when i google it i see nothing at all, which is worrying (to me at least).
Speaking with my brother tonight as my mother is away, he said that he's sure her case also had to go to court as the other guy was challenging it, even though there were witnesses to him reversing in to her. He told me the third party got all details of it.
So what also concerns me here is what details exactly the third party may get from this. I'll assume he will get my name but address also? You don't know what sort of nutters you're dealing with and a supermarket car park bump at crawling speeds is one thing but a lunatic trying to take 3-4 cars at once with oncoming traffic & pulling in to you? I wonder.
Has anyone heard of this company? I just want to throw it out there to see what others thing & what you'd do as i'm a bit unsure. If there's a chance to pick up a payout then i'm there, but is it all legit i wonder.
The email also appears strange to me (echosign@echosign.com)
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Were you injured in the accident?0
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So because your mother defrauded an insurer, you think it's OK to do so, too?
Can I have a percentage of your spurious payout, please, to go towards the extra premium I'm paying because of people who do that?0 -
Why is it fraud?
If they said were you injured & she said yes but she really wasn't then fair enough.
But she told them she wasn't injured. She never expected anything from it anyway because of that very reason. She only went along with it as they insisted that she would basically get some money at the end of it. She specifically told them she was not injured from the accident.
So in other words she was honest throughout, so if someone somewhere along the line decides she's eligible for a payout, when she's been 100% honest about what happened, you're saying she's wrong?
So what should she have done? Lied and said she was injured??0 -
So what was the payout for?
I bet she signed paperwork which - if she'd read it - was claiming injury.0 -
No offence but i'm here to try and get advice on my case & this company who don't appear to turn up in any google search. I'm not here to try and prove to people i don't need to prove to about whether my mother was honest or not because that doesn't help me in the slightest.
If you'd like to help me then i'd greatly appreciate it but let's try keep things on topic, the topic being me & this phone call i received this evening about all this.0 -
It is on topic. You weren't injured. You aren't due any compensation for your injuries. Whether these people are legit or not is irrelevant.
Look, surely finding out if they're legit or not is as simple as ringing your insurer...?
Oh, and echosign.com is registered to Adobe - yes, the Photoshop and PDF people.0 -
Not_Me_Officer wrote: »No offence but i'm here to try and get advice on my case & this company who don't appear to turn up in any google search. I'm not here to try and prove to people i don't need to prove to about whether my mother was honest or not because that doesn't help me in the slightest.
If you'd like to help me then i'd greatly appreciate it but let's try keep things on topic, the topic being me & this phone call i received this evening about all this.
If you're not injured you're entitled to your car being repaired and that's it.
You've been cold called by some legal shark, by all means go with them but if the wheel comes off and you're facing prosecution they'll drop you as quick as they called you.0 -
Not really. Going through the ins & outs of my mothers case is not really on topic. Just because i mentioned it doesn't mean the thread pans out for 10 pages on an old case as you request evidence to satisfy yourself. I merely brought it up as a reference because it was similar. The thread runs on my case which is current.It is on topic.
Correct i wasn't injured. They said i am still in line for a pay out. Whether this is incorrect or not i don't know having never been in this situation myself before.You weren't injured. You aren't due any compensation for your injuries. Whether these people are legit or not is irrelevant.
My insurance company can't even be bothered to contact the third party but you say they may be able to identify this unknown company & tell me all about them?Look, surely finding out if they're legit or not is as simple as ringing your insurer...?
Alarm bells still ringing.Oh, and echosign.com is registered to Adobe - yes, the Photoshop and PDF people.
Sounds like it's best to ignore this one rather than getting wrapped up in it.
Thank you.AndyMc..... wrote: »If you're not injured you're entitled to your car being repaired and that's it.
You've been cold called by some legal shark, by all means go with them but if the wheel comes off and you're facing prosecution they'll drop you as quick as they called you.
As just said, i think i'll knock this one on the head. Things didn't feel right from the moment i answered the phone but thought i'd at least come online to see if anyone else had experienced these people.0 -
Standby to be rung by many many companies for the next 6 years.
Oh and to claim for any kind of loss that doesn't exist even if it is not injury is still fraudulent. Any company that can convince an insurer that they are acting on your behalf can result in your name being on a fraud list can result in pain for you as far as insurance is concerned for a very long time indeed.0
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