02037525009

Claimed to he a health care for Woking. Had my name and the street I live in, but I feel it is a scam as he asked if I watched tv adverts re arthritis, at which point I told him he was wasting both our time!

Claimed to be part of the national health service after care, trying to sell my mother celery seeds at £5 an ounce for arthritis complaint. Keeps calling.

doesn't get far with my father - at the point the caller asks to speak to him (by name) he shouts "go away" and hangs up. keep ringing back though....

Claimed to be connected with NHS survey general health gleaned information on ailments medication, the started selling Rose Hip tablets containing gopol, give the Pembrokeshire Goodbye a two word phrase starting with the letter "F" and ending with the letter "F" sometimes the phrase is preceded with the word NOW.

They always say they got info from an NHS source or clinic and it is not true.

See:-
https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/02086190021
https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/02030144035
https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/02030048377

Caller said she was calling from The Velvet Centre, heavily accented voice and couldn't pronounce my name. I said do you know this is a telephone preference number and asked what the name of the company was and she said she again said The Velvet Centre and was calling from Newcastle-upon-Tyne about a special offer for senior citizens in my local area.

An Asian sounding man rang called me by correct name, and ask how I was.  He said he was doing a health survey for the Wellness Centre.  I told him I was not interested in taking part in survey and put down the phone.

Called today trying to push something called xylon onto a elderly woman, again claiming to be from a health service. we have had problems with this in the past with there being younger people in the house if we pick up these calls the other side will disconnect.  When the elderly tennant answers the push begins.  be careful.

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This company is a pest. I have told them I do not want their service but still they call. Will now try the T.P.S. and see hat reporting them does. Just found out I have "Call Barring" on MY phone. Looked up the instructions so hopefully no more calls selling celery seeds for arthritis. (If I thought they worked I would contact my local seed supplier and make a fortune)

Updated Links!

This BBC link takes you direct to their article on this scam herbal supplement company, duration: 7 minutes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rg1gk#playt=0h01m26s

The rugby observer link to the court conviction replaces the old dead (404) link
http://rugbyobserver.co.uk/news/health-compan ... pensioner-4858/

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Fortunately , unearthing scams has been my forte and that too scams leading to us vulnerable.

My visit to India and back has been insightful with many documentary evidence to nail such scams, i have been assured of more evidence once i reach India post Christmas, one such scami is mentioned below,

This is regarding the Company named “Sanda Wellness” which is into health supplements related to various health concerns. Sanda Wellness changed its name to “Natural Wellness Products Ltd” which filed for insolvency and I understand that, ironically has been sold to the company “Your Lifestyle Products Ltd” and is presently operating in the field of marketing health supplements by means of telemarketing in the UK . The fact that the Directors or atleast one Director in the company Your Lifestyle Products Ltd is common to the company Natural Wellness Products Ltd and thus it cannot be ruled out that the so called dissolution and sale of the company Natural Wellness Products Ltd is a mere eyewash and a ploy of its founder Mr. Ajit Patel to evade prosecution.

These people have no qualms about ruthlessly scamming elderly and vulnerable people - often those with dementia - out of hundreds or thousands of pounds. Therefore i think it is only fair they should be exposed for the parasitic scum they are. Sandwellbeing are deliberately targeting the elderly and vulnerable. They announce themselves as calling from the "Health Centre". They chat away about general health issues, show friendly concern, until they find one to focus on and then pursue a large sale. They transfer calls between individuals which helps to build credibility and confuse the target. DO NOT use them. They are a truly insidious and invidious group.

The NHS in Nottingham issued warnings about Sanda in 2010:
http://www.lpc-online.org.uk/nottinghamshire_lpc/?news_id=2592
Bogus call to Nottingham City patient instructing them to stop taking their prescription medication, Message received from GP practice in Clifton :-
A company from India under the name Sanda Wellbeing who apparently ‘phone the patient up and advise the patient to stop taking their medication.If patient's raise similar concerns practices / pharmacies should ask patients to report this to the local police.
The PCT should be informed if further incidents do occur.

Kent Trading Standards have received reports of bogus callers telephoning consumers pretending to be from a local GP surgery. The caller gives the impression they are from the NHS and asks what medication the consumer is taking. In one incident the caller persuaded the consumer they would benefit from taking Pomegranate tablets, they took credit card details and debited £179.50 from the account. A victim's son traced the call back to a company based in India. No NHS health professional would ever ask for a patient's credit card details over the phone.
Kent Trading Standards are warning consumers to be very wary of anyone cold calling and requesting credit or debit card details. If you are in any doubt at all end the call. In your home, on your phone, you are in control - hang up.

it appears that, owing to the inquiry launched by the Kent Trading Standards, Sanda changed its address last year and filed for liquidation. They have been successful in this ploy and are now operating as Your Lifestyle Products Ltd .

Sanda even had their own facebook page which has been abandoned after people had posted such gems as "The head of Sanda, Ajit Patel was on trial for years, when he was the Chairman of Goldshield, for trying to defraud the NHS by millions."

The director of Sanda Wellbeing Ltd (later known as Natural Wellness Products Ltd), Ajit Patel, also has a magazine called "Your Wellness" (print and digital: http://issuu.com/yourwellness ), published by Yourwellness Publishing Ltd and if you have a subscription for it they may have used the details you gave them to call you.
https://www.duedil.com/company/06377623/natural-wellness-products-limited
https://www.duedil.com/company/07491120/yourwellness-publishing-ltd
http://whois.domaintools.com/yourwellness.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/yourwellness.net
https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/02071860083
http://www.salesprorecruitment.co.uk/company/6844/Yourwellness-Publishing-Ltd

The publishing arm was established in 2011 with office based in Gatwick. Currently the Gatwick is situated at the following address :

Website:www.yourwellness.com
Telephone:+44(0)02085889553
Address: Suite 010 The Beehive
Beehive Ring Road, Nr Gatwick Airport
Gatwick, West Sussex
RH6 0PA, United Kingdom

The Man Friday of Mr. Ajit Patel is an Indian National,  Vijay Bhagwandas Dalwani, who apart from being a Director in Sanda Wellness is currently a Director in the following Companies :

Health Media Publishing Private Limited
Oxeye Digital Solutions Private Limited
Omatra Foundation
N Gage Marketing India Private Limited
Sanda Office Management Services Private Limited
Sanda Sevaks Foundation
Sanda Business Solutions Private Limited
Dudh Sagar Spa Goa
Baywatch Goa
Your Lifestyle Pvt Ltd
Your Wellness Magazine

Vijay Bhagwandas Dalwani is also the Chairman of the Indian company DNY Hospitality Pvt. Ltd and his family members are Directors. These people have no qualms about ruthlessly scamming elderly and vulnerable people - often those with dementia.

As per his Web site he claims to be some DJ with albums connected to his name, wonder where the funds were wired from.

Meeting employees working with such scam companies has also revealed the amount of funds the Directors have diverted to their family and their accounts for personal gain is incredible.

Further inquiries into the affairs of Sanda has revealed that the company has also evaded millions in taxes, both in the UK and in India and as a matter of fact there is a Police Complaint filed against the Indian subsidiary Sanda Wellbeing Pvt Ltd for Tax evasion which is presently being investigated by the M.I.D.C. Police Station, Mumbai, India under complaint number: MECR 17/2014.

Astounding as it may sound, Mr. Ajit Patel and his cronies have now ventured in the field of developing Digital Applications for Smart Phones and have developed an App named               “n-gage messenger”, which brags to be a world's first 360 degree lifestyle Chat app. The Developer address also being ; Suite 010, The Beehive, Beehive Ring Road, Nr Gatwick Airport RH6 0PA .  Please note that Vijay Bhagwandas Dalwani is a Director in N Gage Marketing India Private Limited.

With a proven history of blatant violations of the TPS and Data Protection guidelines and also Tax laws in the UK and India, how safe your personal data will be is anybody’s guess.

Beware , check credential, it would be an disaster , scam companies to have easy access to your phone and data.BEWARE.

Do not believe any of the positive comments here. They are posted by people working for Sanda trying to reduce the incidence of negative feedback appearing on Google. I encourage all of you who have experienced this scam to write here and expose these unscrupulous fraudsters.