Police passing on mobile number to third party?

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I've just had a call from an ambulance chaser about an "accident".

Now the said incident was when some irk tried to steal my car. The number they called me on however is a personal number. The vehicle was fleet, the insurance was fleet and my own work does not have this number, it's personal use only.

The only individuals given the number were the attending officers. I never consented to it being freely distributed, as I say it's not one I give out.

How is this allowed?

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Centurion07 said:

Did they actually give you any specific details so that you know they were definitely talking to YOU about YOUR crash rather than just phoning random numbers?

They knew my name, address, and mobile number.

They said it was in reference to an 'accident involving my car'.

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Mk3Spitfire said:

Attending officers wouldn't give your number out.

No, I don't think they would either.

But where do the reports go? I'm thinking a greasy administrator or loop hole to be honest. I mean I got letters from "victims of crime" which means someone has my details beyond the actually rozzers themselves...

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750turbo said:

Prof Prolapse said:

I've just had a call from an ambulance chaser about an "accident".....

Pure chance possibly, I am sick to the death of them, and have now built up a considerable collection in my Spam bds contact

I don't think so, it wasn't like the usual "have you been in an accident?", he nailed that it was recent and had my address.

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I've worked it out. It's not the police. It's the fking accident repair garage.

I had to give them my personal number because the aholes would never pick up the phone and I had to go in person. They were bloody terrible so this is exactly the sort of thing they'd do without my permission.

A relief!

Pointless thread sorry!

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I may write rather than call as I think the company is big enough they may listen and I've enough fights to deal with at the moment, but insurance company is unlikely to deal with them again after I advised them not to. They tried to charge for extra week or two on the hire car when they hadn't returned calls about returning the car and hadn't picked up the phone until I was away on holiday. Thankfully I had the logs to prove it.

Also shocking quality painting, the match was piss poor. Fleet don't care so I signed it off as it meets their minimum requirements but I'd never have allowed it on a personal car.

It's a big Ford approved painter in Midlothian as well.

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BobSaunders said:

This is cold calling. People buy this data from the insurance company, comparison websites etc.

Think about the data your entering, and think about the little box at the bottom with the legal bit about selling your data or being contacted by third parties.

Personal data is more valuable than credit cards nowadays.

As I said at the beginning it's a fleet car so none of those things. It's a fleet car so nothing links me to the car and the incident, that's how I know someone has passed on my details without consent.