08458622214

To all Readers, this phone number belongs to Inheritance & Probate Solutions Limited

Company Number: 07826175
Incorporated: 27th October 2011
Nature of Business: None Supplied

Registered at: 1st Floor, 2 Woodberry Grove, North Finchley, London, England, N12 0DR and they
Claim to be trading from: 100 new bond street london W1S 1SP
However, they are really based at: Office's 3 & 4 Evan's Easy Space Centre, Jessop Close, Brunel Business Park, Newark Industrial Estate, Newark, NG24 2AG.

Director Details: Mrs Jeannette Varszegi-Haste DOB: 13th May 1971 British
Flat Above The Fox Inn A1 South, Colsterworth, Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, NG33 5LN

They will cold call you and offer you an appointment about "safeguarding your home from Residential Care Fees". Please do not do business with this company!

This is the failed Minster Legal Services (UK) Ltd AND Legal Assistance Ltd T/A National Legal Assistance AND Legal Assistance 4 U Ltd T/A National Legal Assistance AND  Inheritance Protection Services under the new guise of Inheritance & Probate Solutions Limited.

Their Old Website (http://inheritanceprotectionservices.com/) states many of the same words to that of Legal Assistance Ltd T/A National Legal Assistance (http://www.nationallegalassistance.co.uk/) and Minster Legal Services (UK) Ltd (http://www.minsterlegalservices.co.uk - no longer available).

They have robbed the Elderly and Vulnerable with the companies mentioned and many more. They won't give up easily, but we will make it as difficult as we can for them to trade. Lets give them a little publicity on the web.

Please visit https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/01427858331 for more information about these companies, the people behind them and their scams.

Alternatively if you have been scammed by IPS or done business with them, please feel free to e-mail us on wewillgivefreeadvice@hotmail.co.uk for some advice on what to do next.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, the below comments about Inheritance Protection Services (IPS) have come from: https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/01427858331/57

wilbur replies to K W - 13 Oct 2011

In reply to this post by KW.
Is Matthew Jones-  Aka-  Matthew Appleby Aka- Matthew Appleyard?
A big recruiting drive is ongoing. The amount of people starting at IPS is quite staggering. What is more staggering is that they tend to only  last a couple of months and then get binned. The dole office keep sending them in and the muppets keep turning up so they can keep claiming their job seekers allowance. They cant make enough appointments for the Sales Reps who are also being recruited in huge numbers judging by the amount of [***] smoking desperate failed reps who keep turning up for more scam training tactics delivered by the above.

Jones partner in crime Graham Croft only turns up now and again and then vanishes to his secret hideaway at Colsterworth. When is he going down for all the people he has scammed out of money?

When are they going to be finally wound up as a business. How can thay still be allowed to get away with trading like this when the insolvency practitioners are investigating them?

Jones or whatever his name is drives around in his new 1 litre Fiesta thinking he is the new Colin Mcrae thinking he has got away with it again and that he is untouchable.

Well watch this space.

A new TV programme investigating Cold Calling Scams is about to launch and IPS/National Legal Assistance are on their Radar.

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K W replies to wilbur - 14 Oct 2011

Wilbur Thankyou for your comments. It is unfortunate that they are still operating but just to warn the public that Inheritance Protection Services (IPS) are covering the following areas:

*Worthing
*Newcastle
*Exeter
*Brighton
*Colchester
*Leicester
*Nottingham
*Peterborough
*Sunderland
*Durham
*Suffolk

Also please be aware of these scaremongering stories that they are using:

*Britons 'clueless' on the cost of long-term care
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfi ... -term-care.html

*Big changes on care costs are years away as elderly continue to be robbed of homes
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensions/a ... years-away.html

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, the below comment about IPS is from: https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/08458054344

KW - 6 Nov 2011
To all Readers, a self admission of Inheritance Protection Services in Newark that they are part of Minster Legal Services (UK) Ltd that operated in Gainsborough before going into compulsory liquidation:

Minster Legal Services (UK) Ltd’s leaflet (back page) = Be at home with our service

“We lost our mother’s house as she went into care so we were so glad we could protect our home with Minster Legal Services.” Mr and Mrs F of Gainsborough

“My own solicitor hadn’t told us we could protect our assets from future care costs so I was pleased Minster Legal Services contacted us.” Mr and Mrs G of Scunthorpe

“I didn’t realise my partner could miss out if I died without a Will, Minster Legal Services arranged our Wills without fuss and at a fraction of the cost of others” Mr and Mrs E of Lincoln

“The Lasting Power of Attorney that Minster Legal Services provided for my Father made running his finances possible and saved potentially thousands at such an unpleasant time.” Miss M of Nottingham

http://www.lapd.uk.com/Minster%20Legal%20Services.pdf

Inheritance Protection Services’ leaflet (back page) = Be at home with our service

“We lost our mother’s house as she went into care so we were so glad we could protect our home with Inheritance Protection Services.” Mr and Mrs F of Gainsborough

“My own solicitor hadn’t told us we could protect our assets from future care costs so I was pleased Inheritance Protection Services contacted us.” Mr and Mrs G of Scunthorpe

“I didn’t realise my partner could miss out if I died without a Will, Inheritance Protection Services arranged our Wills without fuss and at a fraction of the cost of others” Mr and Mrs E of Lincoln

“The Lasting Power of Attorney that Inheritance Protection Services provided for my Father made running his finances possible and saved potentially thousands at such an unpleasant time.” Miss M of Nottingham

These client testimonials from both companies are exactly the same clients and comments for 2 different companies, surely if they had the work done with Minster, they wouldn’t need it doing again by IPS, or would they?

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, the below comment about IPS is from: https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/08458054344

K W - 12 Nov 2011
To all Readers, some Consultants to beware of and the area’s they are covering for Inheritance Protection Services (IPS) based in Newark:

Adrian Large (Ex National Legal and Minster Legal Consultant) - Covers Lincolnshire
Alan Cecil - Covers Derby
Alan Denney - Covers  Brighton, Eastbourne and Crowhurst (Phone codes: 01273, 01323 and 01424)
Chris Tomlin (Ex National Legal and Minster Legal Consultant) - Covers Lancashire
Graham Sutcliff (Ex National Legal Assistance Consultant) - Covers Blackpool, Preston and Southport
Hugo Richardson - Covers Colchester
Ian Gant - Covers Harrogate and Ripon (Phone codes 01423 and 017)
Jamie Dowdall - Newcastle and Durham
Matthew Appleyard/Appleby/Jones (Ex National Legal Assistance Consultant) - Covers Nottinghamshire and is the Office Manager
Paul Fox (Ex National Legal Assistance Consultant) - Warrington

We would like to thank those who have provided us with some of the above information and if anyone has any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at wewillgivefreeadvice@hotmail.co.uk.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

Called 12.20pm 20/02/2012 by "Alec" offering "Advice on future health care costs" I was handed over to "Matthew" when I asked for details of the database on which my number was held. Matthew was unable to provide the details but will "Call me back"!!

I'm disgusted this company is still in business with such a bad reputation. Surely something can be done to close them down for good?

I'm in Kent, and I just got a call from someone claiming to be calling from "IPS Legal Services". She asked me if I'd heard of some community care law or something, and was I interested in Asset Protection.


Me: “And what kind of a firm is that?”
Her: *Stunned silence* “We’re a private legal firm specialising in asset protection.“
Me: “And what is “asset protection?”
Her: *Another stunned silence* “Um, well, what it says really...”
Me: “Look, asset protection could be insurance, or it could be wrapping things up in foam and newspaper so they don’t get broken; it could be risk amelioration in portfolio management. Which is it?”
Her: “It’s Insurance.”
Me: “So why didn’t you say that in the first place?”
Her: *Silence*
Me: “No, answer the question - why didn’t you say in the first place that it’s insurance?”
Her: “Well, I’ve never had to explain it before. It’s obvious, everyone else knows.”
Me: “Terrific, so I’m more stupid than everyone else you’ve ever spoken to. Fantastic. So, what are you trying to sell me? [Meaning of course, what exactly are you trying to get me to insure?]
Her: *Stunned silence, then a giggle* “Um, handbags, t-shirts?”
Me: “Are you taking the piss, madam?
Her: “What?!?”
Me: “How much more of my time are you going to waste?”
Her: *Giggling* “Why, don’t you want to buy a handbag?” *Giggling*
Me: “Right, tell me your name.”
Her: *She puts the phone down*

I can’t help but feel they won’t get too far if they’re reduced to using inexperienced giggly teenagers to make their cold calls.

Robin H Thankyou for your comments. Did Matthew call you back? We assume that he didn't tell you that they gained your details out of the Telephone Directory. They do not pay for the data they use, hense why people that are on the Telehone Preference Service (TPS) still receive unsolicited calls.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

Layla Thankyou for your comments. When people catch on to what they are doing, they move on and target new areas, even to the extent of setting up new firms under different names when they do get closed down. So we need the word to be spread more widely.

We also need more people that have had work done by IPS to go and get it checked with a Solicitor to make sure they have received what they have paid for, if not, they then need to report it to Trading Standards and their local Police. The more people that come forward, the more evidence there is and bigger the case against them.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

Kim Thankyou for your comments. For further information about what they're trying to sell, the people behind it and why you must be cautious when protecting you assests, please visit https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/01427858331 

Thankyou for reading.

KW

KW.

Do you have any newspaper articles, web links etc to show that this company is really a scam please?

My grandmother has had a consultant today, a lovely man, very helpful and the company seem to be spot on.

If it is true this company is scamming people I want to see it in front of me before I act

Ta.

INHERITANCE & PROBATE SOLUTIONS LTD operates through a dodgy maildrop on a run-down Newark industrial estate.

The nominal "director" of the company, Ms Jeannette VARSZEGI-HASTE, lists her address as a bedsit above a truckstop on the A1(M).

VARSZEGI-HASTE is wanted by the l’Administració Tributària Palma (Inland Revenue Office of the Balearics)

The hard-nosed salesmen of this outfit use various aliases..

Scam? Surely not?!

Eve I have google street viewed their Newark base and it looks fairly new, not at all dodgy. On my grandmothers paperwork it has all their details

To all Readers, the below story is by the Nottinghamshire County Council Trading Standards: https://www.nottinghamshirealert.co.uk/da/370 ... trust_scam.html

Will writing / prosperity trust scam

Nottinghamshire Trading Standards would like to advise residents of a new scam and to remind them to stay vigilant when dealing with unexpected telephone and personal visitors.
Residents have reported being cold called by telephone by sales staff who then go on to worry pensioners into setting up an appointment with a rep about their concerns over the potential cost of future care home fees.

The trader claims that they can set up a ‘family prosperity trust’ for you in order to avoid your house being sold to cover your care needs in later life.

The sales staff convince residents to sign up by exploiting a scenario that is of great concern to pensioners and then arrange an agreement for a trust document to be drawn up to protect the resident – costing from anything between £1000 and £3500. It is believed the document may not be as watertight as marketed, thus potentially leaving the householders property still at risk to the problem the trust is supposed to guard against.

If you have recently received an unsolicited call from a trader matching this description please contact Nottinghamshire Trading Standards on 01623 452005 or email trading.standards@nottscc.gov.uk.

Trading Standards never recommend employing a trader based on a cold call.  If you are suspicious of a cold caller operating in your area please contact Consumer Direct, the Government's phone and online consumer advice service on 08454 04 05 06.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, the below story is from The Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/investing/ar ... fear-death.html

Unscrupulous: The disturbing industry profiting from our fear of death

A fear of dying or going into care has spawned a growing and, as Money Mail has uncovered, disturbing industry.

Unscrupulous financial advisers are getting away with fleecing vulnerable pensioners — often for their entire life savings. Sam Dunn and James Salmon investigate.

Going into care can be a stressful time for those moving into a home. It can also be a huge strain on families, who have made the heart-wrenching decision that their parent, or elderly relative, is no longer able to look after themselves. But this also makes pensioners vulnerable to unscrupulous salespeople.

(Vulnerable pensioners: On average care home fees are £2,163 a month, leaving elderly people and their families to worry about how to pay for them)

These vultures play on their fears of selling the family home, or seeing it snatched by the council to pay for care costs, or of dying without a will, or leaving the family with huge funeral costs.

A major part of the problem is the sky-high cost of care homes and the worry families have about how this will be paid for — and whether you can get financial help from the State. On average, care home fees are £2,163 a month.

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CARE FEES AVOIDANCE SCAMS

Some companies prey on pensioners’ fear of losing their home when they go in to care. They claim to be able to stop the sale of a home to pay for care fees by putting it into a trust.

These unregulated firms claim this will protect the home from being sold to pay for the owner’s care fees as, since the house is in trust, it will effectively be disregarded.

However, local authorities have the power to void such schemes if they believe they were designed specifically to avoid paying the bills. Worse, this offer also tends to involve an upfront fee of more than £1,000, which the family won’t be able to get back.

There is no time limit on how far back a council can look to see if you gave away your house to avoid care costs. Part of the reason so many pensioners have been convinced to lock their money into investment bonds is because sometimes these can be exempt from means-testing.

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RIP-OFF WILL-WRITING SERVICES

Most people want to ensure as much of their estate as possible is passed to their loved ones when they die. But the good intentions of many are often rendered worthless because they cut corners with will-writing services.

The Legal Ombudsman says thousands of largely older people are being ripped off by firms offering unregulated will-writing. It can cost between £60 to £100 to write a will — but some OAPs can pay hundreds for a similar service if they use the wrong law firm.

Adam Sampson, chief Legal Ombudsman for England and Wales, has called for action to be taken to ensure consumers are not left vulnerable by unregulated services. Many legal services, including will-writing, can be done by unqualified — and unregulated — individuals and companies.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/investing/ar ... fear-death.html

Thankyou for reading.

KW

Any proof of IPS scamming??

To all Readers, the below comment about IPS is from: https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/02076924929

W.H.Brunt - 10 Mar 2012
I was cold called and later visited by a Mr Paul Fox on Friday 10th. Feb 2012.  We signed up for Lasting Power of Attorney.  The paperwork was headed Inheritance & Probate Solutions Limited.,4th. Floor. New bond Street, Mayfair, London W1S 1SP Phone 02076924929.  The bottom of their letter stated if you have any queries phone 0845 8622214.

Are you telling me that this is a fraudulent company?

I phoned them Thursday and Heidi answered, as she had on previous occasions, so they must still be operational.

Please confirm receipt of this e-mail.

W.H.Brunt.

Caller: Inheritance & Probate Solutions Ltd.
Call Type: Survey
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Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, the below comment is from: https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/02076924929

K W replies to W.H.Brunt - 10 Mar 2012
W.H.Brunt Thankyou for your comments. For more information about this company and the people who run it, please visit https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/01427858331

Furthermore, if you wish to contact us, please feel free to e-mail us at wewillgivefreeadvice@hotmail.co.uk rest assured your identity will not be compromised.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, the below comment about IPS is from: https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/01427858331/74

gizaproppajob - 15 Mar 2012

CALL CENTRE OPERATIVE Vacancy from  
Job No: SLE/23515
SOC Code: 7211
Wage £6.08 PER HOUR + BONUS
Hours 16 - 36 PER WEEK, MONDAY TO FRIDAY BETWEEN 9.30AM TO 5.30PM
Location Sleaford, Lincolnshire NG34
Duration Permanent
Date posted 09 March 2012
Closing date 09 April 2012
Pension details No details held

Description
Great working conditions, generous bonus offered. Experienced helpful but not necessary as full training will be given. Duties include making outbound cold calling. Hours can be flexible. . 0845 8054344

How to apply
You can apply for this job by telephoning 0845 8054344 ext 0 and asking for Matthew Jones.

Employer
IPS

Inheritance Protection Services.

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After searching the phone number from Jobcentre plus it's given me all your info on this company - and they are advertising for staff.

Not one for me I think !
Thanks for all the info.
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Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, for those who can't find this information about Inheritance & Probate Solutions Limited:

Their website: http://www.inheritanceandprobatesolutions.com/index.html
Their contact e-mail address: info@inheritanceandprobatesolutions.co.uk

Information about their website:
Registrar:        123Reg/Webfusion
Url:                 http://www.123-reg.co.uk

This domain is provided by 123-reg. We're the UK's largest registrar with over 2.7 million domains sold. We also provide cheap, easy website creation.

Domain Name:                 INHERITANCEANDPROBATESOLUTIONS.COM
Created Date:                09-Dec-2011
Expiry Date:                09-Dec-2013

Nameserver:                ns10.networkdns.biz
Nameserver:                ns11.networkdns.biz

Registrant Name:            Jeannette Varszegi-Haste
Registrant Company:       Inheritance And Probate Solutions Ltd
Registrant Address:        4th Floor 100 New Bond Street
Registrant Address:        Mayfair
Registrant Address:        London
Registrant Address:        W1S 1SP
Registrant Address:        United Kingdom

Technical Name:           Webfusion Limited
Technical Company:      Webfusion Limited
Technical Address:        5 Roundwood Avenue
Technical Address:        Stockley Park
Technical Address:        Uxbridge
Technical Address:        UB11 1FF
Technical Address:        United Kingdom
Technical Tel:                +44.8712309525

Administrative Name:            Jeannette Varszegi-Haste
Administrative Company:      Inheritance And Probate Solutions Ltd
Administrative Address:        4th Floor 100 New Bond Street
Administrative Address:        Mayfair
Administrative Address:        London
Administrative Address:        W1S 1SP
Administrative Address:        United Kingdom
Administrative Email:        
Administrative Tel:        +44.2076924929
Administrative Fax:

Thankyou for reading.

KW