A possible scam????

[brenda]

This may or not be a scam ,but was a bit dubious.
My friend who was staying with me between house moves , tried to sell her time share to a re-sale company, paid her money up front and nothing happened , so the cash vanished.
She was not successful in getting it back from her c.card company because she had signed a contract for the deal

However I got a call today for her , from another company who say they are able to retrieve her cash, sounds good. But you need to be assessed first and then they will tell you how much it will be to do this.
The caller would not give his company name but proceeded to re-iterate the need for the assesment.

Sounds very strange to me , --so thought it worth just passing on.

[mccfluff]

if he was on the level he's give his compnay name!

[redcrx]

and how did they get her details?

[brenda]

redcrx-- have no idea-- ,could be the original company I suppose, I don't know.

[LoftyLottie]

Sounds extremely dodgy. I would leave well alone. As Red says, how did they get her details.

[brenda]

Just thought as well that it wasn't very professional to discuss her business with me , after explaining that she no longer lived here.The caller did not ask for her tele number ,but carried on telling me how the process works-- even more peculiar.

[redcrx]

ignore it. It cant be the bank as they would have her details. It will be another scammer connected to first more than likely

[ladybird49]

Did youget the phone number ?

[Ellipsis]

An obvious scam. All the warning signs are there. In fact, what makes it appear anything OTHER than a scam?

The Internet is a great breeding ground for scams, but also a great place for protecting yourself from them. Simply search for what you're being offered and add the word "scams" on the end, e.g. timeshare resale scams

http://www.google.co....imeshare+resale+scams

The fact they won't give a company name may be a further indication that it's a scam, because another good search to do is

<companyname> scam

where <companyname> is the name of the company who is making the offer to you. Try it on the name of the company that originally scammed your friend and you'll realise that perhaps she may have been able to avoid being scammed in the first place.

[brenda]

Thank you all so much for your advice and help. Brenda.

[icemaiden]

They get your details from the stupid forms the airlines give you whilst your flying. You fill them in, giving all your details, then one day, out of the blue, a phone call. "Simples", as a Meerkat would say.

[MissCommando]

Gosh, brenda - and there was me thinking you were an intelligent woman (or so you like to make out) - wake up and smell the coffee, of course it's a scam!