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October 2019

Update: CUC Abogados & Solutions

Further information has been received by Inside Timeshare from another one of our readers regarding the supposed claims made by Solutions SL against Incentive Leisure Group and Personal Travel Group. According to the correspondence they have received once again CUC Abogados one of the new incarnations of the “FAKE” law firms of the Litigious Abogados Family is again implicated.

In the first letter dated on 21 August 2019 and signed by Amelia Inara Calibar on behalf of Solutions SL, our reader’s case after a “lengthy procedure” has been concluded and the sum 32,000€ has been awarded as “compensation”.

The letter goes on to explain that it is usual in these circumstances to appoint a “collection agency” which they liken to a “Bailiff” in the UK to enforce the judgement. It goes on to say that the “collection agency” is there to ensure that “you as an individual are paid out before other claimants”. Apparently, this “agency acts as a mediator between the client, the courts and the defendant’s lawyers.

The next paragraph goes on to explain “The collection agency has the legal status, supremacy and pre-eminence to demand that the Courts proceed to liquidate company assets and also the company directors’ personal assets and bank accounts if need be”.

Well, I wonder how they are going to do that?

As we know the director was Gary Peter Leigh and he was killed in a cycling accident in Marbella in 2010 and his companies had also been wound up in the UK in 2011.

The next letter signed by Julia Garcia from the collections department of Solutions explains the payment plan that has been put into place. That the claimant should also submit a request to the court to “query the state of your pay-out”, this should be done every three months. It then goes on to say that “you may wish to employ the services of a para-legal for a nominal fee”, this paralegal will attend court on behalf of the claimant to submit the “appropriate requests”.

There then follows several “fake” court documents to back up these claims.

Enter CUC Abogados, they are the “collection agency” supposedly appointed and endorsed by the court to “enforce” the payment, but for this, there is a fee of 1,920€. This letter explains that they are affiliated to several “prestigious” bodies such as the Fiscal Economists Advisors Register (REAF) and also claim to have the “status of Social Collaborator” to the Agencia Tributaria or tax office.

The letter is signed by David Lomerz Utierras from the Departmento De Recaudación, there is then a separate page which gives the details on the bank account to have the money transferred to:

Bank: LaCaixa

Address: Av Menceyes 15 3820 S Cristobal La Laguna Tenerife

IBAN: ES73 2100 6745 4602 0013 1211

BIC: CAIXESBBXXX

Beneficiary: David Lomerz Utierros

Address: Edificio Percy Plaza De Candelabaria 38002 Santa Cruz Tenerife

Telephone: 0034 822 680 798

Inside Timeshare is just wondering how this bank account has been opened, the name does not look genuine and who in their right mind would open up a bank account for a fraud such as this in their real name? That leads us to believe that false and forged documents such as passports have been used.

As usual, Inside Timeshare warns all our readers and all timeshare owners that these type of “fake” law firms and claims companies are on the increase. Court documents can be easily forged and unless you are very familiar with these types of documents, you can easily be fooled into believing they are genuine.

If you have been contacted by any company and received documents that may look genuine, use our contact page and get in touch, Inside Timeshare will help you to find the truth.

Once again

DO YOUR HOMEWORK 

Consumer Contract Resolutions (UK) Ltd Update

Yesterday Inside Timeshare published information on a relatively new website O-YOO and the company behind it Consumer Contract Resolutions (UK) Ltd. In this article, we named the “controlling mind” behind the company, Trevor McClintock, today we publish some very interesting information on one of those named.

It turns out that Trever McClintock has what can only be described as a rather shady past, as reported in the Belfast Telegraph.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/fraudster-who-swindled-banks-along-with-dodgy-solicitor-avoids-jail-term-31276615.html

In 2015 McClintock appeared in court and pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud by false representation against two banks, Barclays and the Bank of Scotland. This involved using a solicitor named Michael Robin Burns who gave the banks false undertakings to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds in the form of bridging loans which Burns claimed the firm of solicitors he worked for had the available cash to “guarantee” those loans.

McClintock who had previously been disqualified as a company director had burns fulfil his role as director to a number of companies all controlled by McClintock under the name of The Wellington Group.

The judge in the case sentenced McClintock to a concurrent three-year sentence for each of the five charges which were suspended for three years. McClintock was also disqualified from holding the position of company director for a further three years.

This should leave you the reader in doubt at all that with this man being behind the O-YOO website and the company Consumer Contract Resolutions (UK) Ltd that any dealings with them are likely to be very costly indeed.

Once again this goes to show that you the owners of timeshare must be very careful of any calls or websites that you find regarding claims against your timeshare company.

REMEMBER DO YOUR HOMEWORK IT WILL SAVE YOU MONEY IN THE END!

If you have been contacted or found a website and want to find out if it is a genuine law firm or claims company then use our contact page and Inside Timeshare will help you find out.

O-YOO A New Website for Timeshare Claims Identified

Another new website has come to the attention of Inside Timeshare, it is called O-YOO and they also have a facebook page. When checking the website they do state that O-YOO is the trading name of a company called Consumer Contract Resolutions (UK) Ltd, which is registered with UK Company House.

The website https://www.o-yoo.com/ was registered on 11 July 2018 and is set to expire on 11 July 2020, with the registrant being a company called CRL Holdings (UK) Ltd. According to company records it was established in September 2016 and is classified as a non-trading company.

On their Home Page, they open with 

O-YOO are a dedicated team driven by a simple ethos – consumer fairness in formal and non-formal contractual arrangements.”

Which suggests they work in all areas of consumer contracts, yet the next section specifically states that their primary focus is Timeshare.

In the section The Team, they are a “specialised team of professionals who have a combined experience of over 30 years of helping timeshare owners”.

They also claim that this team has had “direct experience of processing and managing individual timeshare claims”. It also goes on to say that this includes group action claims, claims against finance companies and also mediating to resolve conflict for timeshare owners.

On the contact page, they have a form which you can fill out with your name email address and telephone number. Then there is a section asking “How Can We Help You”, obviously this is for you to explain what you own. They also show a contact number if you want to speak with them directly: 0845 504 8585

Other contact details are:

UK: +44 208 068 4208

Spain: +34 951 560 779

UK Head Office Address:

Kingston House Lydiard Fields Swindon SN5 8UB

This address is operated by Rombourne Serviced Offices which rent out office space and “virtual offices”.

Now we move on to the company Consumer Contract Resolutions (UK) Ltd, Company Number: 11591805, this company was registered at Company house on 27 September 2018 with the registered address:

62 Wilson Street London EC2A 2BU

Which is a familiar address, there are also 259 companies that have this as their registered address.

The company director is Niclas Emil Gunnar Sundqvist. Sundqvist is Swedish and also domiciled in Spain.

From other information received the controlling mind of O-YOO are Trevor McClintock.

Another name that comes up is Suzanne Stojanovic who is “Head of Resolutions at O-YOO” also domiciled in Spain.

So what do we surmise from this, we have a UK registered company which appears to be actually operated from Spain, yet there is no mention of a registered Spanish entity. To Inside Timeshare this does seem a little odd, is it to give timeshare owners peace of mind that they are dealing with a UK registered company, when in reality they are dealing with a Spanish based operation?

As this has only just come to our attention and there is no mention of them anywhere on the internet good, bad or indifferent Inside Timeshare would urge caution if you are contacted by them or come across their facebook page or website.

As we always warn our readers

DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE ENGAGING WITH ANY COMPANY