BERKSHIRE POLICE  online

Rogue Tradespeople & Professionals

There has been a surge in online fraud, mis-selling, and rogue trades people and businesses, who are mistreating customers and clients.

Here are a list of companies, traders and professionals to avoid:

SK Computers, Bracknell (hacking of laptops/computers sent in for repair, causing  malfunctioning of computers, fraud).

Bloom & Wild, Ascot (intentional unfilfillment of orders).

HikVision Cameras (designed to work with microchips to falseify CCTV images).

Ring (Not recording real images, using AI and remote algorithms to facilitate crime).

Just Eat Asda, Frimley Road (Fraud, identity theft. Entering customer's dates of births into undelivered orders of alcohol and then claiming the item was delivered, fictitious orders, sometimes in multiple volumes on a single custoner's account often back entered into the banking system).

My Flowers (fraudulent selling, not delivering purchased orders).

Deliveroo (Fraud, backentering payment amounts to incease purchase values from orders sometimes placed weeks or months before).

Ebay (Fraud, backentering payment amounts to incease purchase values from orders sometimes placed weeks or months before).

Etsy (Fraud, backentering payment amounts to incease purchase values from orders sometimes placed weeks or months before).

Facebook (victimisation of members of the public, businesses and charities, by means of repeated community standard restrictions placed on accounts, limiting social connection and business promotion, cloning personal accounts and business pages, failing to respond to Subject Access Requests, or appeals from members of the public to reinstate accounts, using filters and AI to defame a person's appearance and edit their words, using algorithms to induce typos in posts which are then hidden from the account holder's visibility.

Bracknell Plumbing & Heating (dangerous, faulty workmanship).

"Johnny the Painter & Decorator" (taking payment without completing works).

Gary Lynn (painting & decorating) (taking payment without completing works).

All Appliances Repair, Berkshire area (averted questioning following suspicions of microchip implanting in washing machines, failing to repair or reimburse unfixed machine, damage to washing machine).

Richard Stringer, Harmanswater, Bracknell (rogue window cleaner, entering and stealing from customers premises following time outside property. Suspected to be a violent person, do not approach).

Anne-Marie's Patisserie Group, Ascot, Sunninghill, Bracknell (deliberate deprivation of previously sold products, old and out of date products sold, not fulfilling on corporate orders, intentionally disappointing customers).

M and J Autos, Easthampstead Park, Bracknell (Deliberately damaging the body work of vehicles under trusted care, failing to compensate, stealing from vehicles, not carrying out stated works). 

The Royal Oak Pub, Bracknell (Fabrication of information about members of the public entering into the pub, part of rogue espionage outfit). 

Val Bernard, teacher at Bracknell & Wokingham College (Fabricating information about students. Spying on people is illegal). 

Dr Rao, Crown Wood Medical Centre, Bracknell (Unlicensed GP, not registered with the General Medical Council. May have since made attempts to appear licensed via hacking overlays of redirected/cloned GMC website. Failing to issue repeat prescriptions for life saving medication to patients).

Hazledene Medical Centre, Wembley, London (part of the GP Pathfinder Service) (Employing phoney and unlicensed GPs, failing to issue repeat prescriptions to patients). 

Total Tyres, Binfield, Bracknell (Increasing motor miles on the clocks of customers' cars. Using  RFID Zapping technology on staff and customers). 

Dunelm (Home Shopping website) (Mis-selling via false images, home furniture items often picturing items as an entirely different colour or shape (customers are advised to take out legal claims via their home insurance for compensation).

DFS (Deploying telephone algorithm customer service staff who give customers incorrect information in respect of their terms and conditions  such as fees which are associated with all of their furniture returns even when incorrect sizes are displayed on website. Failing to co-operate with the Consumer Rights Act).

Prim Dry Cleaners, Warfield, Bracknell (Deliberately damaging clothing items, refusing to compensate customers).

Cheapest Ironing Services, Bracknell (Damaging laundry items (items returned with holes, a speciifc colour stripper used to take out colour and missing items), changing quoted prices given by telephone, stating more money is owed when items are delivered, and falsely claimnig this to be the original quoted amount).

The Plough and Harrow, Warfield (Customer debit card fraud).

Barclays Bank (Closing customers bank accounts while funds were still in the account, stating no reason had to be given to close the account, that Barclays are a privately operating business. Customers left with a lengthy, complicated process of retrieving their funds).