BW Legal phone call demanding payment

arthurx1234

Had a phone call this week from BW Legal about a VCS parking ticket.
This phone call was out of the blue as my last letter to them was almost 2 years ago. Also I had previously informed them that they should not phone me and all contact should be by letter.
I wrote to them and told them the error of their ways.


Has anyone else had a phone call from these guys about old PCN's?


Thanks


Arthur

beamerguy

arthurx1234 wrote: »

Had a phone call this week from BW Legal about a VCS parking ticket.
This phone call was out of the blue as my last letter to them was almost 2 years ago. Also I had previously informed them that they should not phone me and all contact should be by letter.
I wrote to them and told them the error of their ways.


Has anyone else had a phone call from these guys about old PCN's?


Thanks


Arthur

READ THIS ABOUT THESE PHONE SCAMMERS
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5672664/bwlegal-the-list-of-failures-growing

If BWLegal ignore you, complain to the SRA (Solicitors Regulation Authority)
https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/problems.page

fisherjim

Tell them to FO then block the number.

arthurx1234

Hi
Well had another phone call yesterday--- a womans voice asking for me then a recorded message telling me to phone them back!!
I did not phone them i completed the SRA report form, but they will do nothing
Arthur

beamerguy

arthurx1234 wrote: »

Hi
Well had another phone call yesterday--- a womans voice asking for me then a recorded message telling me to phone them back!!
I did not phone them i completed the SRA report form, but they will do nothing
Arthur

Complain again to the SRA and make certain you block them on your phone. It's harassment

We must assume that the SRA approves of harassment

Coupon-mad

Report them online, to the Information Commissioner, using the data concerns form, and showing evidence that you told them not to phone you, but they ignored it, twice.

arthurx1234

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Report them online, to the Information Commissioner, using the data concerns form, and showing evidence that you told them not to phone you, but they ignored it, twice.

Thanks Coupon Mad -- cannot find the form on the website only the nuisance calls procedure!!


Arthur

beamerguy

arthurx1234 wrote: »

Thanks Coupon Mad -- cannot find the form on the website only the nuisance calls procedure!!


Arthur

I would say this is the page

You can report nuisance calls and spam texts to the ICO here
https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/nuisance-calls-and-messages/spam-texts-and-nuisance-calls/

These calls from BWLegal are nuisance calls after you told them to cease

Coupon-mad

What when you Google ICO report a data concern, you didn't find the right page? Try again.

The_Deep

Complain to your MP

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of alleged contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week, hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

The problem has become so widespread that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. It has even been suggested that some of these companies have links with organised crime.

Watch the video of the Second Reading and committee stage in the House of Commons recently. MPs have a very low opinion of this industry.

http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business in the not too distant future.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-07-19/debates/2b90805c-bff8-4707-8bdc-b0bfae5a7ad5/Parking(CodeOfPractice)Bill(FirstSitting

arthurx1234

Coupon-mad wrote: »

What when you Google ICO report a data concern, you didn't find the right page? Try again.

No i did not its hidden away here hxxps://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/nuisance-calls-and-messages/spam-texts-and-nuisance-calls/report-spam-texts-and-nuisance-sales-calls/


Have completed the form will wait and see if the calls stop


arthur