Comments on: 3Com 3G Phone Scam

By: Michael Couch

Michael Couch — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:54:34 +0000

3Direct & 3G are pestering my mother trying to get her to take a mobile phone on her DECEASED husbands account. It is no good either of them saying it is not them as I have just looked at both 3G & 3 Direct,s web pages and both of their customer service telephone help lines are identical. I shall be phoning tomorrow to get this nasty cold calling stopped.Once again this cold calling has to be stopped
before it really upsets an elderly person and causes either a stroke or a death.

By: Mr Peters

Mr Peters — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:17:24 +0000

Had a phone saying they were t mobile and would upgrade me with a new phone, I received phone and realised this was not t mobile, but g3, I phoned straight back and returned the phone, with proof of purchase and they say they have not received it??? they are now sending bills even though the phone was never activated, and they have set the debit collectors on to me, I have contacted trading standards. I am not young and this is upsetting me greatly

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:32:29 +0000

Just had a call from those plonkers.

I told them I wasn’t interested but they persevered.

Me: “where are you calling from London”?

Him: “of course sir”!

Me: “So how is the weather up their in Manchester?”

Him: “Good sir, good”.

After asking him where he got my number from he said the white pages. I told him that it was impossible as I am TPS, and I bet he didn’t know my name. He told me that I am quite silly because names aren’t listed in phonebooks only numbers! riiiggghhht whatever!

So I asked to speak to the manager, and he proceeded to call me an a*shole and a c*nt and that he was a manager. After sinking my teeth into him he asked me why I was speaking to him. Because you called me you retard!!!!

So needless to say he didn’t get a deal out of me….

By: simone

simone — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:05:08 +0000

I have just had 2 calls for to people who could not speak english at all. They tried to sell me a phone. I asked where they got my number from and they said BT which is odd as I am with NTL/Virgin and ex directory.
I put the phone down on them twice and both times after asking to speak to a manager and then shouting and them.I did 1471 and got the number 0701 2212212
This is aboiously a scam of some sort and urge people not to pass on any personal details.

By: henry ayton

henry ayton — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:39:53 +0000

hi to all,,ho read this,,my dad was on 3.he past awawy in may of this year,,3 keep phoning my house asking for him,i keep telling them hes past awawy,,ive tried to get them to stop phoning my house but thay just keep phoning,,ive had it up to my eyeballs with 3,,ne 1 got ne help thay can offer me,as this 3 is upseting my mum badly,,thank you kindly

By: jamie

jamie — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:05:15 +0000

Had another call from them again the other day. seems they are now trading as 3direct now maybe its just me, but that set alarm bells off after reading all abouth the sky scammming company satellite direct!! are they becoming a full scale ‘across-the-board’ scamming monster?

By: Holley

Holley — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:09:51 +0000

Here’s another twist on this scam… we were called with this great deal - 17.50 per month with 14 days cooling off period. My partner cancelled BEFORE the phone was sent, but the phone was sent anyway. We were told by the Glasgow office to return the phone but then got calls from India NOT to return the phone but that a courier would come to collect it. This went on for 3 months! In the meantime, despite the cancellation of the contract, they took out 17.50 from our account - (although the Indian call centre told us to ‘ignore any bills’) and we cancelled the direct debit and had our bank get the dosh back. They then had the audacity to rebill us that 17.50 plus another 17.50 for another month! No couriers have ever arrived to collect said phone. Now 3G or whoever they are are demanding not only demanding the 35 quid (which has now gone to a credit collection agency thus threatening to affect our credit rating!)but they want 300 odd quid for non-return of the phone within 14 days! We have now referred the case to Trading Standards…. we shall see what happens next…

By: mat ahoy

mat ahoy — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:23:08 +0000

i got a call off this so called “3com” last week,offereing me similar great deatils,saying they have just signed a million pound deal with o2.stating all my conversations will be recorded.

they sent me a phone,which i actually told them i didnt want anymore,say came back and said i cant cancel as my reason for cancelling isnt good enough!i mean,what is a good enough really for them?!?

after days of ringing and being fobbed off by them saying they wil ring me 2moro,and them saying i still cant cancel i went do to my local trading standards office and got them on the case.there is a clause to get out of verbal contracts within 7 days,they cracked on the phone saying “we had no record of you ringing up and speaking about this matter at all”,even though id been ringing for 3 days trying to sort it out.i asked for each of the peopels names and it was the same person each time but each tim giving different names,when questioned this one said” yeah we get that all the time,we must just sound similar”

these people are scumbags and after trading standards were on the case they cancelled straight away.so be warned.

so i have an address to send the phone back,but what happens if i dont send the phone back?hum,anyone got any ideas?