We had the misfortune to contact this company recently when looking for a loan. Their APR seemed quite reasonable. My husband spoke to them on the phone and they asked for his bank card number to verify that he did indeed have a UK bank account. We then received a letter from them thanking us for our payment of the brokers fee and saying that a loan company would be in touch soon as we had been provisionally accepted for a loan. We never agreed to paying any broker's fee and as far as we are concerned the money has been taken illegally. We are now going to cancel the bankcard that the details were taken from to stop any further payments that may be taken without permission. We have tried to contact them by phone but have been unsuccessful so we are going to write to them and then contact the financial ombudsman. We have been able to get a loan from a reputable high street lender without having to pay any fees. We doubt that we will see the money returned but are going to give it a damned good try. These people should be closed down and unless we all stand up and do something about it they will just continue to cause misery to people who are already vunerable. We have also found out that the company to which our details were passed is also a scam, being a sister company of Wentworth Finance and if you fill in their form you will be charged another fee.
If you have been scammed in this way please make sure you cancel the bankcard that you used. They set the payment up as "Continuous Authoristaion" and can take payments from your account at any time without the need of your permission.
If you have had money taken from you please, please complain. If we do nothing they will continue to get rich on the back of other people's misfortune.
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