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Be warned ... its a scam from 118local
heres how it works...
free trial for a week with a listing on their site all looks good.
u will receive a couple of work enquiries who go out their way to mention they got your name from 118local but there will be an excuse involved to stop you actually viewing the work mine was .. we are going on holiday for
two weeks and the other was they were very interested in having the work done but would phone you back.
The free trial ends and 118local call to sign you up
It all seems great
Dont laugh but I went through with it!
Then they tried to take £480 off my card instead of £100
My details did appear in full on their site and looked good.
But my suspicious mind wouldnt let up.
I dont what I should have done in the first place and called a few of the trades listed on the site the first thing I noticed was no matter what post code entered it was always the same 10 people listed
I spoke to 3 different tradesmen 1 didnt know he was on the site the other 2 had had a free trial months ago and didnt realise they were on the site but the complete confirmation of the scam was this
One person had the exact same call from the same indian man as myself almost word for word claiming to want alot of work doing but ultimately had the same excuse so you couldnt visit the property to quote!
I have confronted 118local about this and hopefully got my money back the call its self was farcical and wouldve made a good episode on the tv show scam busters
Anyway all cc cards have been cancelled now just waiting to see if i get any identity fraud.
shouldve gone with my gut feeling!
heres how it works...
free trial for a week with a listing on their site all looks good.
u will receive a couple of work enquiries who go out their way to mention they got your name from 118local but there will be an excuse involved to stop you actually viewing the work mine was .. we are going on holiday for
two weeks and the other was they were very interested in having the work done but would phone you back.
The free trial ends and 118local call to sign you up
It all seems great
Dont laugh but I went through with it!
Then they tried to take £480 off my card instead of £100
My details did appear in full on their site and looked good.
But my suspicious mind wouldnt let up.
I dont what I should have done in the first place and called a few of the trades listed on the site the first thing I noticed was no matter what post code entered it was always the same 10 people listed
I spoke to 3 different tradesmen 1 didnt know he was on the site the other 2 had had a free trial months ago and didnt realise they were on the site but the complete confirmation of the scam was this
One person had the exact same call from the same indian man as myself almost word for word claiming to want alot of work doing but ultimately had the same excuse so you couldnt visit the property to quote!
I have confronted 118local about this and hopefully got my money back the call its self was farcical and wouldve made a good episode on the tv show scam busters
Anyway all cc cards have been cancelled now just waiting to see if i get any identity fraud.
shouldve gone with my gut feeling!
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