Strongly encouraged to commit insurance fraud :(

Stockhausen you legend.

When ever I get those claim4anything idiots jump on me and say "hi have you had an accident in the past 5 years" I just say "cant you smell it" to the look of WTF haha
 
And people moan about a 'where there's blame there's a claim' culture. With leading questions like those above, is it any wonder that some people succumb to temptation for some 'free' money. If you ask me, if the apparatus of 'claim chasing' were not endorsed by the insurance and legal side of things, then there'd not be half the injury claims made following accidents, leaving only genuine cases to be argued, say as a referral from a medical specialist following treatment for an actual injury.
 
Wossi said:
I got a text message similar to this, what was bizarre was the fact that I haven't been in an accident. Unless they knew something I didn't.
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Funnily enough i had a text saying i was due £3k due to an accident i had a few mths ago which doesnt make any sense as i sold my car last yr havent got one at the moment.
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Deleted the text and thought nothing of it till you mentioned it.
 
You should have said you broke wind as it happened, due to shock, to see if you get compensation for that to. The smell of fart in leather may forever haunt you.
 
You know what; I’ve been getting a shed load of calls about this type of thing since coming off of my bike last month :eek:

Got a call pretty much starting in the same vein as yours, but I didn’t give them much time to try it on (so to speak) – they asked if I had recently been involved in an accident, thinking it was the one last month and not the ongoing personal injury claim from being hit off in 2008, I said yes.
I then proceeded to tell the chap that it was a fault accident with no one else involved and that I had already received written confirmation from a solicitor (my insurers arranged this automatically) that there was no claim to be made, he promptly ended the call saying he would make sure I was removed from the system.

Since the first call I have received about 5 more from the same number, I did pick up the next and explained to the guy that I should have been removed from their lists, and stupidly picked up the third – but they cut off (automated dialler I guess), all subsequent calls I have just cut off.
 
I have had the same idea when I had a fault accident. They asked that their details were passed along to my passenger to see if he wanted to make a claim. When I told him he laughed and said no, because *if* he did want to make a claim he would not do it through a cold calling company.

FluffySheep
 
It's totally wrong that this sort of thing goes on and must contribute massively to the price of insurance (apparently there's going to be big car insurance hikes this year thanks to the number of claims for repairs & injuries due to the snow and ice last winter).

My uncle was in a similar situation, was shunted from behind at a roundabout at low speed (he stalled his car setting off and the driver behind had set off too - hit at about 10-15 mph at the most?) and he was strongly advised to claim for whiplash by a company like this. In the end (which I didn't agree with in the slightest) he did end up claiming even though there was nothing wrong with him. Claimed for his girlfriend too. They got £1000 each for having nothing wrong with them.

When I asked him why he did it, he said "even if I didn't claim for it, other people would - there's no point taking the high road because you just end up out of pocket, I get no money, and everyone else claiming for it makes my insurance more expensive, so I have to pay for their claims and get nothing back."

That's what wrong with our claim culture these days. And you know what, I kind of see his point - you can be the bigger person, but it doesn't mean everyone else will.
 
vicisthebest said:
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When I asked him why he did it, he said "even if I didn't claim for it, other people would - there's no point taking the high road because you just end up out of pocket, I get no money, and everyone else claiming for it makes my insurance more expensive, so I have to pay for their claims and get nothing back."

That's what wrong with our claim culture these days. And you know what, I kind of see his point - you can be the bigger person, but it doesn't mean everyone else will.
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I believe that benefit cheats and billionaire tax dodgers put forward much the same kind of argument :rolleyes:
 
I kept getting stopped in Burnley town centre by some people telling me I should make a claim for any injuries I've had in the last 3 years. He actually said to me "make a bit of money and get off to Ibiza" :confused: wtflol.
 
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