Email alert - Gas & Electric Contract Services UK

[Logic]

Thanks everyone, we received this email yesterday. We enquired further and received a phone call from Owen Taylor. He seemed a bit flustered when asked for his company details so we could do a credit check. I did a quick google search and ended up here. Good work!

 

[Dazzer09]

What a waste of space this man is, he has left a message on my land line today!
I have just re-registered with gas safe after 3 years 2 days ago, wonder where he ever could have found my details?
cheers for this forum

 

[GQuigley67]

your details are on the gas safe website for everyone to see, thats why he has all our details

 

[mcniven]

There trading from our neck of the woods Glasgow.
I called them, to obviously find out more information... £1725 + Vat was all I got really,
Safety Gas UK was the trading name. Allegidly

 

[armourer]

Looks like they are doing the rounds again I received 2 more emails of this company today.

That makes 4 in total. I have just ignored all of them and if they call I'll be giving them a right mouthfull.

 

[unguided1]

There is an easy way to prevent these leaches from contacting you, but you probably will not like it and wont want to do it, and that is to tell gas safe to remove your details from the visible side of their website, customers can still check your registered by typing in your gas safe number, but it means you wont be advertising on the gas safe site, you can also have your picture removed from it as well.

 

[GQuigley67]

ive only had 1 job from the gas safe website, and one person phone me up only to be told i wasn't the cheapest

 

[Toned.f]

ive only had 1 job from the gas safe website, and one person phone me up only to be told i wasn't the cheapest

You are lucky - all I have ever had is one goon ringing me at midnight one night stating he could smell gas out in the street.................and of course emails from these arseholes ( and Safety Checks UK or whatever they are next week)

 

[John quick book]

Good afternoon all,
I googled my company name today to find out where i come in the pages and was annoyed and dissapointed to come across this post from shorticus.
I thought it was only fair that I take the opportunity to respond.
Firstly im going to get on the defensive because you have a right to share your views but what I would liken this to is someone you have never done any gas work for going on to Check a Trade and slating your business and calling you a con man.
I found myself out of employment and had been thinking about a booking system for some time for all businesses and thought this was the best chance to go for it.
I have no idea how this can be classed as a scam of any kind as I provide something that you would own and you would only take if you thought it would be useful to you.
The fact that I was only going to sell 10 in each postcode area was a suggestion from a customer who thought If 100 engineers had it in his area it would detract from its usefulness.
What I would propose is this shorticus, If you use it right and send the link to potential customers, you can have it for free, (if you dont have a website I'll store it on my server for you). At least then you can make an informed decision and not just speculation on something you obviously didnt even look at properly hence "some kind of booking system".
You have my contact details I see, so please contact me to arrange this, as I mentioned I know you have a right to share your views but I hope that you understand I have a right to defend myself against uninformed and completely wrong allegations.
Anyway this is longer than I expected it would be so thanks all.

 

[shorticus]

Good afternoon all,
I googled my company name today to find out where i come in the pages and was annoyed and dissapointed to come across this post from shorticus.
I thought it was only fair that I take the opportunity to respond.
Firstly im going to get on the defensive because you have a right to share your views but what I would liken this to is someone you have never done any gas work for going on to Check a Trade and slating your business and calling you a con man.
I found myself out of employment and had been thinking about a booking system for some time for all businesses and thought this was the best chance to go for it.
I have no idea how this can be classed as a scam of any kind as I provide something that you would own and you would only take if you thought it would be useful to you.
The fact that I was only going to sell 10 in each postcode area was a suggestion from a customer who thought If 100 engineers had it in his area it would detract from its usefulness.
What I would propose is this shorticus, If you use it right and send the link to potential customers, you can have it for free, (if you dont have a website I'll store it on my server for you). At least then you can make an informed decision and not just speculation on something you obviously didnt even look at properly hence "some kind of booking system".
You have my contact details I see, so please contact me to arrange this, as I mentioned I know you have a right to share your views but I hope that you understand I have a right to defend myself against uninformed and completely wrong allegations.
Anyway this is longer than I expected it would be so thanks all.

John my apologies for my misinterpretation of your services/ product, as you can tell from the length of the preceding thread we're all a little battle battered from the constant attempts from people trying to sell us fake deals. And you’re quite correct that I failed to look closely at what you have on offer, to be honest and in my defense I’d put that down to the sheer volume of spam, advertising offers and get rich quick schemes that I receive daily.
Anyway, I’ve removed the post and wish you the best.
Shorty

P.S. I would however suggest that you consider not using the Gas Safe register as a marketing tool/source, that's not what it's there for.
Cheers

 

[Admin]

It appears "Safety Checks UK" is a trading name of "One Stop Safety Maintenance UK Ltd" Company number - 07695888

So please do not mix up the companies who are spamming your email addresses. 🙂

Another Nation Home Reports / Group 3 Energy jobby here or what?

 

[dava443]

Re: Email alert

Hi all

Tnink i'm one of the mugs to fall for this scam! I've paid my £2070 & not heared much from them since.
So can anyone help me? How can i get this money back or is it gone for ever?
Any help would be great. Thanks.

 

[armourer]

Re: Email alert

dava443 sorry to hear that m8,
My advise if they are not following up on their promises of work is get in touch with a solicitor.
An internet forum is ok for advise and to let off steam but to fight it you need real legal advice.

Most solicitors give an hours consultation free, make sure you take all off the relevant paperwork.

 

[dava443]

Armourer:
Thanks for that i will get onto it soon as i can. Cheers

 

[armourer]

dava443,
I honestly dont know if it is a con or not but I do know that virtually every gas engineer in the country has received these e-mails.

Imho these sort of offers are normally aimed at engineers when work is quiet, and often turn out to be no work at all.

I hope you get it sorted m8.

 

[metaldust9]

feel for ye there dave in these hard times

 

[mrplumberman]

Hi good day all.I would like to post this blog as i also have been sent an email from a company called safety checks uk.Who promised 500 jobs for 1700 quid plus the vat.after doing about a days research on this company,I found out that they have only been in business for 6wks.the clients which they say they have on there website which is www.safetychecksuk.com have never heard of this company.two of there supposed clients even phoned them up to have the phone put down on them.I nearly parted with my cash as they provided me with a ref.which turned out to be a gassafe registered eng.He advised me that he was getting work on a regular basis via this company.he,s obviously in on the scam as mr JOHN WEBB from safety checks uk forgot to withhold his no. this morning and his std dialling code was in the same location as of the ref.i was given and not from the london office which they are supposed to operate from.
Since this morning i have contacted action fraud which i urge anyone who has parted with there hard earned cash or anyone who thinks this is also a fraud to contact them.i,ve also conacted the gassafe reg.and with thanks to metaldust9 was given this forum detail to make all of you jazz drummers about this scam.
thanks mrplumberman.

 

[gasmarc]

unfortunately there is no shortage of lowlife scum who will take your money, I had a guy call me on xmas eve saying my books are ready that i ordered for some school charity , he said he had a signed order form from me and he wanted a visa payment of £300 odd quid

 

[mog1094]

hello everyone, im new to this forum and this is my first post,
I have been contacted by safety checks uk in the last week, about a contract in the cardiff area, i was very nearly hooked until i saw this thread, the people i spoke to were Ian Alexander and Owen Taylor, they were very profesional and like i said they nearly had me fooled, i signed some sort of contract that was sent via email and electronically signed by me, but i didnt part with any money. the thing that i found dodgy was the fact that they contacted me several times by phone giving me the hard sell you know like a second hand car salesman! i was then supposed to be available for a conference call on a monday morning and if all went well with their 'blue chip clients' i would be awarded the contract there and then and would have to hand over £1730. now i reckon i was gona win that contract no matter what!!!
After reading this thread i phoned Ian Alexander back and told him i thought he was at it! well he wasnt having none of it, he talked his way around the facts and carried on with the rubbish
MY QUESTION IS THIS?
WHY ARENT GAS SAFE DOING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS, THEY COULD AT LEAST NOTIFY ALL OF US OF THESE FRAUDSTERS AND TO LOOK OUT FOR THE EMAILS.
Times are hard for some of us at the moment and a contract like this is very inviting.
hope this helps somebody out there.
regards......... TONY.

 

[Toned.f]

hello everyone, im new to this forum and this is my first post,
I have been contacted by safety checks uk in the last week, about a contract in the cardiff area, i was very nearly hooked until i saw this thread, the people i spoke to were Ian Alexander and Owen Taylor, they were very profesional and like i said they nearly had me fooled, i signed some sort of contract that was sent via email and electronically signed by me, but i didnt part with any money. the thing that i found dodgy was the fact that they contacted me several times by phone giving me the hard sell you know like a second hand car salesman! i was then supposed to be available for a conference call on a monday morning and if all went well with their 'blue chip clients' i would be awarded the contract there and then and would have to hand over £1730. now i reckon i was gona win that contract no matter what!!!
After reading this thread i phoned Ian Alexander back and told him i thought he was at it! well he wasnt having none of it, he talked his way around the facts and carried on with the rubbish
MY QUESTION IS THIS?
WHY ARENT GAS SAFE DOING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS, THEY COULD AT LEAST NOTIFY ALL OF US OF THESE FRAUDSTERS AND TO LOOK OUT FOR THE EMAILS.
Times are hard for some of us at the moment and a contract like this is very inviting.
hope this helps somebody out there.
regards......... TONY.

Glad you saw through the rubbish.....there are no customers Tony, they just want to steal your hard earned money.