No Win, No Fee

[White Room]

About 7 months ago I had a "muscle spasm" to the left neck/ shoulder area..I over done it and suffered for it, no one to blame but myself.

Had 5 weeks off and still suffered quite a bit of pain, ostiopath for a few sessions and he advised me to go to the docs, had an x-ray (thought I had done more damage considering the discomfort), a bit of wear and tear, nothing unexpected.

Physio for a while, not bad but over the last few months it's settled down anyway but still being carefull.

Now the thing is I'm having calls from no win no fee types, I have never contacted these people but the conversation is that you had an accident and you can claim about £4000 for your injury, unless I can claim against myself not much chance.

They still continue to call, now my point is how do they get my mobile number (which the hospital has) and how do they know I had hospital treatment, now is information being passed to these companys from someone in the hospital.

Has anyone else come across this problem or heard of anything similar.

Just to add, I have a mobile which I have been called on, 2 landlines, one is virgin media which I've been again called on and a BT line which is business, also been called on, which was today and it was on answer phone and sounded it was from India.

 

[DHTiling]

Interesting....

 

[hillhead]

Interesting thought..

 

[Dan]

That's incredibly dodgy. The Mrs is pregnant and we get leaflets though the door about baby stuff although I made sure I checked all the boxes, and told all the people we've dealt with that take our details, that we want no mass junk mail. NHS would be behind that, and perhaps its the same in your case?

Keep asking where they obtain their details when they call. I'll start trying to find out myself too, as we have months more of this if not years.

PM me with any more info. 😉

 

[White Room]

Will do Dan, the reason I asked was that I listen to a local radio station who deal with peoples problems and there was an elderly lady who had the same problem but again never had an accident, just had hospital appointments for an minor injury..

She got the calls ???

 

[Mike]

you should register with the telephone preference service. if you still get junk calls tell them you've registered, they'll soon get off the line then

 

[user123]

I know just what you mean there. My Dad had glaucoma ad other eye diseases and therefor I go to have my yearly eye test at Boots. My eyes are absolutely fine, inherited my Mum's anyhow, but just making sure, I started about 5 years ago. Since then lo and behold I get all sorts of eye related junk mail, laser surgery mainly, and that started en masse about 6 weeks after my first eye test. Now Boots is not the NHS, but still... ??

 

[user123]

you should register with the telephone preference service. if you still get junk calls tell them you've registered, they'll soon get off the line then

That does not work with calls from outside of the UK though, Mike.

 

[White Room]

you should register with the telephone preference service. if you still get junk calls tell them you've registered, they'll soon get off the line then

But if your number is being passed directly to businesses how can that be stopped.

 

[Mike]

it doesn't stop the root of the problem but no companies are allowed to cold call you then. i'm registered and as soon as i mention that to cold callers they hang up