Consultation Clams Ltd

accountantnotdull

Hi. Has anyone here experienced receiving an unsolicited email to their work email, containing their personal address details in an Engagement Letter purported 'signed' by them, authorising the above outfit (well something similarly named!) exclusivity on pursuing a finance interest compensation claim? If you don't cancel within 14 days you risk being charged 2.5 hours £139.50 + vat per HOUR termination fees as a minimum. Looking at Trustpilot, many have. Although the signature is definitely not mine, I never asked them to act for me and the time and date they say  I authorised it, I was elsewhere, I cancelled as soon as I read it and received confirmation of same, without fees. It's outrageous and I wonder what avenues are open to having this unscrupulous scam stopped. 

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accountantnotdull said:

Hi. Has anyone here experienced receiving an unsolicited email to their work email, containing their personal address details in an Engagement Letter purported 'signed' by them, authorising the above outfit (well something similarly named!) exclusivity on pursuing a finance interest compensation claim? If you don't cancel within 14 days you risk being charged 2.5 hours £139.50 + vat per HOUR termination fees as a minimum. Looking at Trustpilot, many have. Although the signature is definitely not mine, I never asked them to act for me and the time and date they say  I authorised it, I was elsewhere, I cancelled as soon as I read it and received confirmation of same, without fees. It's outrageous and I wonder what avenues are open to having this unscrupulous scam stopped. 

No, but then I dont respond to Facebook ads or other such social media which is where the vast majority of people are signing up to ambulance chasers. 

£139.50 for legal firms and claims management types is fairly reasonable and at least shows they are getting paralegals to do the file setup etc as they should. Solicitors rates are much higher than this, which some small outfits will charge because they dont have loads of paralegals. I'm normally paying north of £500/hr for the solicitors I use and in some cases has been 3x that for a partner to come onto a call etc. 

In many cases sign up is done online by clicking the "I agree" button or similar, any "signature" on the document is often just a generic squiggle or your name in cursive as a representation of the fact the I agree button was clicked and isnt intended to be your actual signature. 

Unfortunately people are too quick to click things without reading etc. There are plenty of cases of people advertising saying "see how much you can claim" when in reality you are signing up to their service not just being given a random number,