Fraud Alert: Urgent Warning

[Jaki]

I hadn't used the service since July last year ... found the ordering service from the GRO easier to use.

Luckily i was checking the site at work today or i wouldn't have known about it and checked my credit card balance.

I have now cancelled my credit card , the transaction has been listed as disputed and now i wait to see what is going to happen .....


Jaki

[gaygirl]

I am in Australia too and have been charged $221.83 plus charges on my credit card.  I have contacted the Sussex police and my bank .  I last used Research-Uk last year and cancelled my order when it took so long and had an email to say that the guy  had been very ill but no notification that the business had been taken over.
Looks like there are lots of people being taken for a ride.

Gaygirl

[Welsh Jen]

I am posting a copy of an email I have just received on the Bristol and Somerset Rootsweb Mailing List:
Dear All,
I thought I should alert everyone who might have used Research UK in the past to purchase certificates, etc.     I have just discovered that £50.00 has just been taken from my bank account by Research UK in St. Leonards.

I have not dealt with them for at least two years.

Through searching we have discovered that Research UK was sold to Ancestor Detectives based in Hainault, Essex about two weeks ago.   We have spoken  to them and they say they have received a number of telephone calls from  people who have had money removed from their bank accounts, and that it is  causing them enormous problems.  They have put it in the hands of Sussex Police.

We have just been talking to the Fraud Office at Sussex Police ourselves, who are instigating a crime investigation. Should anyone need it, the  number for Sussex Police is:   0845.6070999.  They were extremely helpful.

My advice to anyone who dealt with Research UK is to check their bank accounts as obviously this is very serious indeed.

Regards...

I run the Colbert Rootsweb Mailing List & also forwarded the above message. If any others here are Rootsweb mailing listowners / admins please pass this message on via your list also including the contact details that the user Carmela quoted: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,40280.msg158377.html#msg158377

Thank you
Jen 

[JacquiY]

Hi, I was really interested to read all of this.  I just read a a message on GenesReunited from a lady who had just discovered a deduction from her account in favour of "Research UK" and she had never heard of them.  I did a search on the web and found that their website was no longer available - but you could get them through Lycos?!?.   I will certainly pass on this information to her.  It scary how easily we can be conned when using the internet, isn't it?!?   Jax