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Foreign caller trying to offer free phone calls has called several times

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.

This number keeps calling me at least times everyday l dont want them doing this

Called my elderly parent. Luckily she couldn't understand the accent and put the phone down. Number now blocked!

keep getting calls from this number ,i dont answer

I have received 8 callls for this number in the last 10 days - I found out by using who called me that it is a scam

Danny Boy rang me by his accent not his real name said he would send me a free sample of a health supplement to take after breakfast did not ask for bank details. he had my name and address.

i had a gentleman call me today from your country lifestyle (or similar) telling me that they are
calling all senior citizens offering health supplements/tablets.  I proceeded to tell him that I wasn't a senior citizen and resented the implication that he thought I was. he told me that they were calling everyone in the country and I told him what a waste of their company's time and money as half the country aren't OAP's. he told me that the company was very large and money was no object!!!

 My assumption is they have a hitlist of very elderly and vulnerable people. It would help combat this fraud by knowing if and why there seems so few younger, savvy recipients of their pest calls. Whocallsme reports tend to show the old-age bracket are heavily represented.
 Please be objective and candid in an effort to find if and how they manage to avoid calling young, savvy people.
  My relative suffers from dementia, to the extent I can't find out how he acquired a large bag of herbal and other useless pseudo-medicines. They have long since been thrown out and he has no memory of having such a large amount or of what it represented in terms of months-of-supply. He has a decade long supply of saccharin tabs for tea and coffee!
  I know how NHS GP and clinical services are managed and the bull$hit alarm had no problem trapping a foreign sounding female caller saying they were a clinic who had a referral. It took much longer than a year of call minding and resolute "bugger-offs" to stamp out the Natura and Elbon/ calls. The daily, Asian lifestyle survey calls abruptly ceased at precisely the same point.

Interesting question.  I wonder if part of it might be people who haven't opted out of that part of th Electoral Roll which is sold on?  Even if it is not current it's possible to work out the rough ages. The scammers would then have no trouble finding telephone numbers. Some younger people who have reported this scum say that the 'phone went down pretty swiftly when they didn't fit the profile.  As you say, the fake surveys might also have something to do with it. All  scammers know that elderly people are usually more trusting and once one of them gets useful information they sell it on.

None of my relatives have been in the full, unabridged Electoral Roll.
At the early stages, my father would not comprehend the various pitfalls with:
- engaging with self-proclaimed phone researchers & doorstepping pests
- accepting supermarket loyalty cards
- registering for freebies & prize draws (shopping centre booths, store check out, newspaper comps, hawkers)
- shopping unaccompanied at Comet (pressure to take 5 year extended cover)
- certain retailers pool data of card sales
and so on

Had 11 calls from this number in the last 7 days. Twice they asked for a Vera Brown, twice they asked for a Mr Williams. I haven't heard of either. They tried to interest me in a free sample of glucosamine tablets and asked about vitamin tablets. On four occasions they have promised to have my number marked 'do not contact', but the calls keep coming.