Is this a scam?

topletters

Hi

Received a strange phone call from someone saying he is from a company called DMP, claiming to be an agency for several creditors who allege I am in debt to them. He spoke in very broken English and when I tried to get a phone number for his company and their address, he said he could not give his number and he mumbled a few things for their location such as London and 2 characters of a post code. He also said I owed a lot of money in taxes to the UK government.

I told him that at the moment we have no debts, although have had in the past, and that no one has actually written to us chasing us for any monies, including the Inland Revenue. I told him it sounded like a scam to me, to which he took great exception. I put the phone down on him only for him to call me back. He also asked to speak to my wife. Where he got her name and our home number, I don't know. After the second discussion got very heated, he put the phone down on me. You can imagine the answer when I rang I471.

Has anyone had experience of this so-called company or anything similar? How do they get such information and is there any advice anyone can give to counteract it?

Many thanks

Mark
topletters

dmg24

DMP is often used as an abbreviation of Debt Management Plan, but I am not aware of a company by this name.

Your post put me in the mind of Phonejacker, do you think it could be someone playing a joke on you? If not, unless you receive proof of the debt in writing (without you having to give out your address!), I would assume it is a scam.

tallyhoh

I have no doubt that he would eventually have asked for your bank details to "repay your debt".
Ignore them & hang up the minute they call, dont get into any conversation with them.