Further to our articles of 11 and 15 September, regarding Bias Claims Services and along with calls from HMRC holding money from the Spanish courts in respect of compensation for past frauds, there has been another new twist. This time it is Barratt Consulting Services SL and a call from the Bank of Spain.
In this call to one of our readers, a lady called Caroline Reid claims to be an Adjudicator from the Bank of Spain, with a strong Scottish accent she explains that our reader is due over £25,000 from previous sales of holiday club memberships. This actually amused our reader as he only ever paid around £3000 in the first place.
He was given several options on how to retrieve the money, they all involved a Spanish lawyer and translator, he could however go to Spain himself or allow their legal contacts to do the work on his behalf. This would obviously incur costs, there would be a charge for the notary and also for the bank. Costs would average around £8000 for the lawyer and translator then around £2,500 for the bank.
This would need to be paid with an initial £2,500 with the balance to be paid 10 days later. Once this is done he would receive his money within 1 month. Now that is very speedy! Caroline also stated that their legal contacts worked in the same building (very convenient), but she would have to find out when they were available as they were very busy at the moment. I’ll bet they are!
Once our reader agreed to this, she would ask her legal people to give him a call, when asking about how payments were to be made her response was, there would be a few more calls before they reached that stage. Very vague indeed.
When our reader declined and would not be taking up the offer, apparently her manner changed abruptly, becoming more insistent, that he was missing a great opportunity. She also gave him various examples of other people, one of which had received over £70,000.
When our reader still declined the offer, Caroline told him had would have to sign a disclaimer and return it to the bank. She told him she would ask the bank to send it to his home address, it arrived that day via email. The disclaimer was not from the Bank of Spain, but from Barratt Consulting Services SL.
The address on the letter for Barrat is: Bulevar Louis Pasteur, 5, 29010 Málaga, which when checking google maps is a large apartment / office block in Malaga, just out of interest right around the corner from the main CourtHouse.
They also give the following telephone number and email address:
So far we have not traced any company registered with that name in Spain, we have not even found a website for them.
There are several inconsistencies in the story that Caroline gives, firstly that she is an Adjudicator from the Bank of Spain, well we have never heard of the Bank of Spain calling timeshare or holiday club clients in the UK, also we cannot believe that the Bank of Spain would be employing a lady from Scotland in such an important position.
The speed of which the payments need to be made and the very speedy way in which the bank would payout, within 1 month!
Also would not the Bank of Spain be talking in Euros and not Pounds Sterling!
Inside Timeshare is in contact with several lawyers dealing with timeshare claims and none of these have ever heard of anything like this before. They have also reiterated that the Bank of Spain do not make calls or would be dealing with any matter such as this.
If you have not yourself instigated legal proceedings against any company you have dealt with, then the call to tell you that HMRC, Bank of Spain or any court is holding money for you, is not true. None of these bodies would contact you in such a manner, so once again if it sounds too good to be true then it is not true, so do not be blinded by the huge sums they say is waiting for you.
This once again shows how important it is for you to do your due diligence and check any claim that any company makes which contacts you. If you need any help or advice on how to do this contact Inside Timeshare and we will help you through it.
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