1ST LOCATE UK LIMITED Bewertungen 

Debt collection companies are never going to get many stars lets be honest!
However, they held off whilst I investigated the money that was owed (even though I still feel HMRC were wrong!) But never the less this rating is for the company, and so far have been Ok with me and been on their website and is quite easy to use.
But ... my bank card they had on file expired and instead of ringing me, they just send a text, and a letter, why not Just ring me! Sorry, I forgot to ring them to update my card details. But apart from that its been quite painless (paying £90pm for 5 years! still having digs about the debt as you would, but the company were harmless, and quite helpful to me).
Easy to set up a minimum payment plan and just let it tick along, and don't get hassled from them.

SCAMMERS robbed £70 out of my bank account

This may be the most useless, lazy and downright incompetent company i have ever had the displeasure of interacting with. Never, ever under any circumstances give them your information, because there is a 0% chance they will resolve the case in anything approaching your favour, and they will take 4 months and 10 useless phone calls to do so. 'Agents' will call you without knowing your case history and their awful hold system will hang up on you after 5 minutes so you can't even contact them yourself.
You are much better off just heating your house by burning the letters they send because at least that's a good use of the poor tree that died to send it. If there were negative star ratings I'd give them one.

Left a message on my phone asking me to call them and then refused to speak to me as I wasn't on my clients records!

She told me her name is Gloria but I assume this is not her real name.
Phone call was a total waste of time. Don’t even bother! They ask for my personal details but when you ask them if they have your details, she said no! I asked her why you need my details for then, when you can’t even confirm anything. Couldn’t even continue the call with that attitude.

British Gas, please don't send your letters through LCS to me - it is a waste of paper. I am pretty annoyed that you are that dysfunctional that you can't even sort out your database.

You received my last payment on 22/10/2021 so don't send me your letters that I haven't paid for 4/10 /2021 and 5/10/2021.

very unpleasant debt collection agency. Sent threatening emails demanding urgent payment, but don't answer the phone and take an age to respond to emails. When they do respond they just ask for reams of data that is in clear breach of GDPR rules

THEY ARE A LEGITIMATE COMPANY THAT'S THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THEM & THEY ALSO GO BY THE NAME LCSDR

IDLE THREAT'S AT BEST FROM THEM PHONE CALLS,LETTERS & TEXTS

IF YOU DO HAVE ANY CONTACT WITH THEM JUST IGNORE THEM AS THEY HAVE NO POWERS AT ALL TO GET ANY MONEY OWED

YOU HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING THE LOTTERY THAN THEM GETTING ANY MONEY FROM YOU
THAT'S A FACT

BEST ADVICE FOR YOU IS DO NOT GET STRESSED FROM THEM AT ALL

HOPE THIS HELPS YOU

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Spoke to some lady seem like she really hated her job. I was calling on behalf of my mother, she didn't even ask if I was the account holder. when I confirmed this she rudely disconnected me didnt even ask why i was calling on my mothers behalf, guess she dint want me to pay the bill.

They may be a set of ba*****s out for your money, but they are a legit company that works with the likes of Yorkshire Water to recover debt

Rubbish take out money b4 I agreed leaving me nothing to eat

I had a breakdown I scrapped my car to a professional scrap merchant that paid me minimum amount the vehicle was worth 3 times the amount As I was ill I couldnt deal with this. I also continued to pay a years insurance This was due to the fact I was in my bed for 3 months with no help and could not physically get out of bed Bearing in mind I paid 6 months insurance when I did not have cr The scrap merchants did not send me back the part were I had to fill in STUPID ME BEING SEVERELY ILL did not think that a professional company that I gave my car for zilch would not be dealing with this. Now I want to know how or in what way this company is dealing with disability or mental health issues. I now have to pay a penalty of 80 after loosing my car for zilch to a company of profession. The tax was disposable notification to say Im no longer keeper of the vehicle 19/07/ 2021 There letter was 01/09/2021 There answer was yur being charged because you did not contact dvla I assumed the company that scrapped was as I no longer had paperwork Bearing in mind I was laying in my bed severely ill How does this work are you against disability My message to this company is I hope I get my health back as when I do I will be suing you for discriminating against disability when previous to this they were a paying upstanding (maybe to much) citizen

Look forward to your response on the subject of illness

Clear fraud scam that needs to be reported immediately officially to reporting actionfraud police uk

Never ever give your name, date of birth or national insurance to fraudsters who doesn't have that information and you generously provide to them. This is how they fill the gaps to use against you later to look more legitimate next time.

If you really owe someone debt (in my case I didn't even have debt in the first place) the original entity will chase you directly first in writing and by phone not through a 3rd party company. Think before sharing your private information

This is a SCAM company, how are they still allowed to be open?

THIS IS A SCAM.

If you owe any company money, they will write to your home address. They will not send you text messages or call you.

It is quite common for LCS to call and scare you, and as you're caught like a 'rabbit in the headlights', you'll be asked for private information (for example your date of birth) which will be used against you at some future date.

If you provide personal information (information they can easily obtain and information they should already have) they work on the basis that you must owe something to someone, or you'd not provide it.

They will ask you to make a settlement or enter some sort of payment plan, settlement, etc.. If you refuse they threaten to immediately issue court proceedings etc...

DO NOT PAY THEM.

If you owe money, the company you owe money to will write to you. If LCS write to you claiming to be collecting a debt from 'ABCLtd' - ignore it.

Be warned.

they keep sending me final warning invoices but with no way to pay.

On the phone, they ask for all sorts of unauthorised data and refuse to proceed if you don't comply. E.g 'what is your financial health', 'are you paying out of earnings', whats your DOB..etc...I have no contract with them that they can touch my data, I just want to pay their client's invoice and can supply a reference number to facilitate that.

They should make it simple to just pay, instead it was slow/tricky and filled with data breach questions

I left SSE company and as I owed still I set up a direct debit to pay off what I owed, sent this company proof of payments etc and I’m still getting letters now and emails even after I constantly tell them I’m paying, SSE also added £75 admin fee because of this which I aren’t paying

Scam, got the letter warning about the outstanding debt with HMRC/ tax credit. Was not receiving one for years now and also have access to my online account with HMRC, where I get access to any information I need- easy to check. Annoying scam, somebody have to press the charges towards such companies like that... please let me know where to turn to and I ll do

Nightmare Nightmare Nightmare!!
Firstly they sent the letters to completely wrong address and without any names. And they keep sending it until the final notice. When you call them their lines are always busy. When you get connected the call gets disconnected. They promise to call you back, but they never do. Called again and again and the final got through and they take the card details and disconnected again. i am not sure if this is legit company and i hope my card details wont get misused.

contacted me stating a debt had been incurred however i have already paid it, customer service operator was very rude. It seems like a scam. Beware. It was apparently on behalf of British gas but that has already been paid. The is an "interest charge" which is a little strange for a payment that has already been paid. Again scammy

Edit: I decided to contact British Gas as there was numerous red flags, 1. the reviews all saying the same thing that this company has tried to contact people regarding a debt that either doesn't exist or has already been paid. 2, a late interest charge??? that doesn't happen unless on a credit card/ loan 3, customer service operator said don't contact British gas you deal with us

Long story short, spoken to British Gas who have confirmed my balance on their account is 0. These people are just scammers and are trying to get money out of vulnerable people. Best reported to financial ombudsman. Dirty scumbags

I will now ignore the correspondence but keep it for the F.O (Yes I am reporting them)