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This fake establishment charges for various courses and then disappears. The website is down, no way to access the course which was supposed to be delivered online, no response to emails or phone calls. They claim to be internationally recognised, which is rubbish, pure nonsense, a LIE! They claim their courses are accredited but they're not. They took my money and then disappeared. Total scam! Does anyone know where to complain about them and try and get my money back? Please advice. Any help will be greatly appreciated. The courses aren't cheap but most of all they scammed hundreds of not thousands of people so far. This must stop.
The number given in the above message is for Waterloo carpet cleaners. Not helpful.
The same has happened to me, I've paid received a book and not the course and hey they have disappeared.
He has now started again, this time calling himself Sir Scott Austin and is using the company name The Obesity Society (which has nothing to do with the genuine US organisation Obesity Society - see the subtle difference of the word 'The'!)
He has set this up (again with Katie Hope named on the site this time as Certification Manager) as A not-for-profit organisation, registered as a company limited by guarantee [protected]. This has been set up by his Scott Austin Ltd with the following addresses:
REGISTERED HEAD OFFICE
The Obesity Society
20-22 Wenlock Road
London
N1 7GU
REGIONAL CENTRE
The Obesity Society Training & Awards
Chenea Holm Barn
Halesworth
Suffolk
IP19 0JT
Email us at contactus@obesitysociety.org or give a call at [protected]
Just to share some details to save you time if you're keen to follow this up, I've issued a complaint by phone to the Citizens Advice Bureau, online through Companies House (yet to hear anything back will call and follow up tomorrow) and I've just filled out an online form at Action Fraud (this took ages but is worth it.)
None of the company addresses linked with The Nutrition Register / Fitness Industry training are current.
Fitness Industry Training UK company house company number is : [protected]
Scott Austin Ltd company house number is : [protected]
and the Scott Austin company address is: 20-22 Wenlock Rd London, N1 7GU this is the most interesting as its a current company that is newly listed as opposed to the other ones that seem to have stopped being active.
I've spent too much time on this now so tomorrow will follow up with Companies House and will probably just have to leave it there and hope that one of the above companies can sort it out!
Hello, I'm currently going down the line of trying to somehow get my money back. I've lodges a complaint with the Citizens Advice Bureau, and started to make a claim through the small claims tribunal, the only issue being that you can't serve a claim unless you have a valid address - unfortunately all of my registered mail letters have all bounced back (surprise, surprise).. Interestingly there was a re direct crossed out to another address which I have since googled with an active, registered company called "Scott Austin Ltd". I'm going to keep pursuing this. I'm now aware the diploma means nothing but want my money back. Maybe raise it with Citizens Advice Bureau and make a complaint through Companies House online form - more of us the better?
The same thing happened to me. I paid, I was doing the exams nicely, and now they disappeared. I was a bit suspisious in the beginning because the course fee had to be paid to an individual called Scott Austin, personally, but I wanted to start some course and then in the end, I paid. I figured he is just the site owner and so that is why you pay to him ...
Now I learned that he also goes under the name Scott Jackson, his partner in crime is Katie Hope alias Katie Layton (probably all four names are fake ...). He is a professonal scam artist and he has repeated this scam several times over. Plus, the course materials were stolen from other, reputable and non-fraudulent institutions. Of course, even if you did finalize the course, the "diploma" would be worthless. I have learned this from this website about scam: http://thehealthsciencesacademy.org/online-nutrition-courses-names-providers-and-sites-that-are-a-scam-and-fraudulent/
I have done this course in august 2014. What they call CFN COLLEGE FOR NUTRITION. I AM very disappointed because I got that diploma level 5 and it is unuseless.