Sky insurance scam

mentaljessie

Please be aware there is a new scam going about, tonight my Dad was contacted about renewing his Sky set top box insurance. So my Dad goes along with it (doesn't realise anything is amiss, as mum deals with all househlod bills normally). Then they ask for bank details, with that he says can you ring later when my Wife gets home. So when my Mum gets home she tells my Dad it's not due for renewel till Nov and rings Sky. Sky then inform her they did not telephone this pm and that she is not the first person to query this, and that it is a scam with people trying to obtain banking details.

aromaannie

What banking details do they ask for? Is it anything that's not printed on a cheque book?

ofarrell179

I also had a call like that! I knew something was a miss when he said I had to renew my insurance, because I never had any in the first place. When I said no I don't want any insurance he said "well youve always had it before". I said no we've never had it and then he got angry and gave up. I never realised it was a scam until I just read about it. Good job I stuck to my guns ey?

Lorraine

5bellies_2

There's a company going by the name of Subscriber Services Ltd that is pulling that scam.

I've had phone calls and letters from them. They play off the fact that their company name is "Subscriber Services Ltd" and since it's vaguely passable as "Sky Subscriber Services" most people don't notice the difference.

From Companies House:

SUBSCRIBER SERVICES LIMITED
10 CROMWELL PLACE
SOUTH KENSINGTON
LONDON
SW7 2JN
Company No. 04043187




Status: Active - Proposal to Strike off
Date of Incorporation: 31/07/2000
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
9999 - Dormant Company

Accounting Reference Date: 31/07
Last Accounts Made Up To: 31/07/2002 (DORMANT)
Next Accounts Due: 31/05/2004 OVERDUE
Last Return Made Up To: 31/07/2003
Next Return Due: 28/08/2004 OVERDUE

penrhyn

My mother had a letter from Subscriber Services, offering a maintenance contract funny thing is that she has never had a Sky system.
Their address on the reply envelope was Arundel BN18 0ZZ.