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Motorhelp finance

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  • 24-01-2006 3:50pm
    #1
    imeddyhobbs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone ever dealth with a finance company called motorhelp.co.uk
    I got a call today from them asking me if i wanted them to provide finance to a buyer but i have to pay the finance company €117 upfront by credit card

    Is this a scam??


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    #2
    Wolverine_1999
    Registered Users Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Wolverine_1999


    I've heard of these here and other places before and they all seem to be definite scams. God knows where your credit card details end up as well...


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    kluivert
    Registered Users Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭kluivert


    Sounds very suss

    You have to be licensed in order to provide finance.


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,465 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Sounds like it to me, just like the ones that ring you up offering to find dozens of buyers for your car, but also need money upfront via credit card.

    Just Google for 'motorhelp' and I'm sure you'll find plenty of dirt ...


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    imeddyhobbs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭imeddyhobbs


    Well i can give them my 3v credit number,buy the exact amount of credit i need give them the number so i WILL only be getting the amount credit they need


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    imeddyhobbs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭imeddyhobbs


    Alun wrote:
    Sounds like it to me, just like the ones that ring you up offering to find dozens of buyers for your car, but also need money upfront via credit card.

    Just Google for 'motorhelp' and I'm sure you'll find plenty of dirt ...

    This is what she did,she called me,told me that their was interest in my car in my area(shes in the uk with the accent)but my number is on the site so why would the potential buyer call me first?


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,256 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Sorry, I'm a bit confused here. Are you selling your car, and they are asking you about credit for someone else or what?


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    imeddyhobbs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭imeddyhobbs


    eoin_s wrote:
    Sorry, I'm a bit confused here. Are you selling your car, and they are asking you about credit for someone else or what?

    Yes im selling http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054879673


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,256 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    imeddyhobbs wrote:
    Yes im selling http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054879673

    Is is also on Carzone or CBG or something so they got your email address?

    Not that it really matters though - sounds very much like a scam to me. Why on earth would you pay to get someone else finance?

    I just went to motorhelp.co.uk, and it looks like a portal rather than an actual finance company in it's own right. Would not touch with a barge pole.


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    imeddyhobbs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭imeddyhobbs


    Yea i have it on donedeal.ie thats where she got my number ok
    Sounds very suspect,think i will give it a miss


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    mollser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭mollser


    Yah, just had a call from these fellas myself. All sounded like a good service, until he required upfront registration fee of €117, and the alarm bells started going off. Of course, this fee is refundable when they close the deal, for full asking price. I told him that if he gets me full asking price, I would be quite happy to pay the €117 at that stage, and you can keep it. Unfortunately the fee has to be paid now.

    He asks if I have the internet, I said I do and I am looking you up as we speak :D . Good job he wasn't looking at what I was looking at, particularly the 'Mirror Investigates' page.....

    I told him to ring me back later on, so I am delightfully going to tell 'Ian' (if that's his real name) that he should do himself and everyone else a favour and go out and get a proper job.... :D

    Am also going to point out why on earth would an Irish buyer in Kilcock, and another in Kildare, be seeking to purchase and finance a car through a UK company, for a car based 20 mins around the M50 from them :confused:

    Wasters. :mad:


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