Dating Site Threats

born_again

INAMESS said:

They do have my name, email address, card details and date of birth which i entered when i tried to subscribe.
Tonight i have received an email from their legal representatives called....
Auer Witte Thiel Solicitors
Bayerstrabe 27
D-80335
Munchen
They now say pay before the 5th October otherwise they will go to court?

If they have your card details, they would not be wasting all this time & money. They would simply reprocess the transaction till it goes through. 👍

Gavin78

Most UK debt companies have to do it all in writing not through email. However in this instance do what others say and ignore them. they are trying to obtain money from you.

powerful_Rogue

Google 'Auer Witte Thiel Solicitors'

You will see many many reports of how this is a scam.

Brie

why would a swiss firm hire a german solicitor???  

And if you google "Auer Witte Thiel Solicitors" you get a lot of people talking about the scam.

And why would a german solicitor call themselves a solicitor?  They should call themselves a justiziare or anwälte I think.

MalMonroe

I don't know if this will be of any comfort - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4243273/be2-dating-site-warning/p1

It's from this very site - posts started in 2012 and ended in 2018. General consensus - 'spam'.

As powerful_rogue says above, google "Auer Witte Thiel Solicitors".

They have succeeded in frightening you when you haven't even had any of their services. You could email them back and say you are going to take them to court for non-provision of services and harassment. Or something. 

But the best thing to do, which I'd have done ages ago, is block them. 

ThumbRemote

INAMESS said:

They do have my name, email address, card details and date of birth which i entered when i tried to subscribe.

Anyone could have entered those details. They don't know who you are or where you are. Block them and ignore. 

Paully28

Just google Auer Witte Thiel Solicitors, and nothing but 'this is a scam' results. Ignore I would suggest. 

INAMESS

Thank you for the replies, i feel a bit easier about things now lol

Nickhey1967

I received an official letter at my home ADDRESS from this company 2 weeks ago re a site I had joined and believed closed 8 months ago after finding out it was a scam and blocking payment, ( apparently deleting and unsubscribing from them is not cancelling so they kept adding £40 a month plus costs. Any previous emails would have been deleted as they must have gone into spam,
Terrified me by the threats and payment demand. I had 2 days to pay by their deadline date. Foolishly I did. I received another email today saying more charges have accrued due to late payment ( it was paid within the date they gave originally) and demanding instant payment or arrange a payment plan. I contacted my CC fraud team who said as I authorized first payment, can't do anything but they have cancelled my card to stop any possibility of money being taken. Still unsure moving forward. More sleepless nights and stress.. 

eskbanker

Nickhey1967 said:

I contacted my CC fraud team who said as I authorized first payment, can't do anything but they have cancelled my card to stop any possibility of money being taken.

What do they mean by 'cancelling' the card?  Merely stopping a card and replacing it with another with a different number doesn't actually prevent merchants from claiming authorised payments, but if the entire account is closed and you no longer have a relationship with the card company then that would be different.

How have payments been made so far, i.e. is there a continuous payment authority in place allowing the merchant to pull payments directly?

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/recurring-payments/