Companies mimicking HM Land Registry.

Cardea

A relative was scammed very recently out of over £1000, not the £25 quoted - assuming that it was the correct site as it comes up first on Google.  I've reported them to Google as this company have taken the money but not provided the requested paperwork.  Makes me very angry! 

user1977

Cardea said:

A relative was scammed very recently out of over £1000, not the £25 quoted - assuming that it was the correct site as it comes up first on Google.  I've reported them to Google as this company have taken the money but not provided the requested paperwork.  Makes me very angry! 

That sounds a variation on the theme - most of these sites aren't really "scams" as they do provide the services they claim to for the quoted price, but if they just take money and run then hopefully your relative can get a refund via his card company.

MeteredOut

Cardea said:

A relative was scammed very recently out of over £1000, not the £25 quoted - assuming that it was the correct site as it comes up first on Google.  I've reported them to Google as this company have taken the money but not provided the requested paperwork.  Makes me very angry! 

I hope they contacted the bank/card provider too - this will likely have gotten the money back if the services was not provided.

Helenmp58

Beware of enquiries@onlinelandregistry.org.uk
they took £40 online to source my deeds and then phoned me repeatedly asking for £500 to complete the request!!

Pog

I sadly used one of these by accident. I couldn't find the local government LR website, just kept going round in a loop which was very frustrating. Now I find no documents but payment taken and no way of getting in touch with them. The 'contact' form doesn't work unless you input your order reference, but of course the one they sent doesn't work. Infuriating! I suppose will just have to put this down to experience. Since discovered can get the documents required for much less, sigh!

user1977

What do you mean by the "local government LR website"?