Elegant Companions review: Got scammed 52

hi,

yes i have the same story to share i aplied last week and yesterday the lady called me and said she wants me on board on her www.anight2remember.net website. After she sent me some questioner to fill + my 4 photos to include. In questioner i left note for her as well that i will be on holisays from 7-25 september. Today she called me and said on Saturday i have got a date ( why on Saturday- because i am leaving on Sunday !) and we need to work quickly because after i come back i have got already 2 other gentlemans waiting and then... of course she started to talk about fee 280.00 pounds for my advertising, she also mentioned David Scott, ... and about bank which was in Portugal as well. She wanted a money imidiately but i said he probably tomorrow i can send some money but i dont have it all. She said ok . Off course i started to look for this company because i dont believe such scammers. First off all her voice sounds like long term alcoholic, secondly she is saying about bank in portugal when business is in england and its flourishing. If her business is so flourishing why she is paying then people cash hand and not showing it in tax return? And why is she mentioning about fee on the end - she should inform me about it at first or it should be written on website. And off course she picked up my date to be this satuday to cash my money and knowing i am away on sunday- so i wont call her. Lastly i have checked this website properly - and look at all this photos of escorts she uploaded- there is literaly few of them and quality of photos is poor as well. Thanks guys i have seen your posts now i am 110% sure is a big scam ! the ladies name who contacted me is Claire Bradley, her telephone [protected], i will be wieving this forum quys if you need some more info from me

I am currently dealing with Leah@anight2remember.net as well. Just like you have mention above, a £295 fee is required but this time to some bank in Portugal. It seemed very strange that she asked me if I was available for work in 2 weeks and when I said yes she then found a job for me this Saturday. She had called from [protected].

Thankfully I searched the net for them first, if anyone has a plan how we can catch these people I'm all in for helping out as they expect me to make a payment today or tomorrow. I will continue to monitor this to see if anyone wants to do something.

Oh dear god I have I think just been subjected to the same scam a woman called me from a night 2 remember by the name of Georgie Rogers she said she had sent her children to private school of the back of this non sexual escorting agency and that it can prove to be a good earner. She asked me a lot of details about my hobbies and said that all the details went into a computer which then generated a score and if I scored about 76% then I was perfect and could join I came out with 89% and she said brilliant well the registration fee is £370 to get your profile up and running I advised that I couldn't pay straight away and it was left that she would contact me at the end of the month. Then the following day I received 5 missed calls and 3 voicemails saying that this was strange and didn't usually happen but she'd circulated my picture round the offices and a gentleman (Norwegian) who was going back Friday wanted to take me out Thursday night he was 48 years old and a finance manager for a shipping company. She said could u raise the registration fee I said I don't think so she then said could I do just 6 months at £18" I said I could only pay £130 she said that's fine. Then called in the evening to tell me that the date was Thursday 8:30 a taxi will pick me up and then she have me the gentleman a name but couldn't tell me what restaurant we were going to (this sounded strange) but non the less I agreed. Now it's the day before I haven't heard anything but have begun to research this company and I'm growing concerned will they cancel tomorrow? Has anyone actually had any successful dates? if anyone has tried to get money back how have you done if and have you reported if to the police as a scam. I'm now growing increasingly worried .

Elegant companions, dates for hire and xxxrecruitment are all owned by the same scammer called david scott mcleish, originaly from blackpool. He lives and runns his scam from Mijas costa, spain.

HIRE A DATE also goes under the names - ELEGANT COMPANIONS, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. My agent was called Leah and her email: leah@anight2remember.net

I joined dates for hire after a girl called LEAH contacting me and signed me up and created a profile - which I thought was free. She then called me saying one of her girls had cancelled and asked if I could fill in for her in 3 days time - I just had to make a payment of £279 for registration and I would get it back after the date as he would be paying me £425, was a 39 year old guy with his own internet business and loaded and a a very nice spiritual guy who was very interested in meeting me. They never called me with details of the date - I had to call them! To which all of a sudden the dates had been cancelled and I was given 2 different stories as to why! They said he was rescheduling for the following week but I have since heard nothing from them! They have ignored all my emails and when I call they say they will get my agent to call me back - and then they dont! So I have gone to back reported fraud, reported them to action fraud and also my bank even rang them posing as a new customer - asking questions about where the company is based and trying to get more information but David was rude and defensive and put the phone down on her! Really hope the back can get my money back! If anyone has any similar stories... please contact me kpmason1980@hotmail.com - I will post if I get my money back from the bank!

Hi, I recently signed up with elegant companions and was too very suspicious my adviser was called Sarah her email is sarah@datesforhire.net, she reassured me time and time again that the company was legit after finding no evidence I went ahead. Firstly she told me the fee was 295pounds and then it went to 150pounds because they did not include the car service anymore and I would make my own way to dates. after i paid this amount i found scambook reviews and rang my bank immediately to cancel the payment, ever since ive been flooded with emails asking me to ring my bank and authenticate the payment to McKendrick and Cohen which i did not do. i left me bank to deal with it and still have not recieved my money back, i then emailed sarah telling her to take my profile off the website (not sure if it was even on there, i didnt check the website cuz i was embarrassed to see any of my pics on there) and for a full refund, i herd nothing for about a week. a week later i had a message on my fone asking for my bank details for them to process the refund, i emailed them my iban and bic number and bank address and i am now waiting, not sure if i should have given them my bank details but my bank are aware of the situation... we will see if they actually give me my refund. Roxell

I would like to add to this..i got scammed by these people..they made it sound so convincing to me..i had a date lined up.and i was getting £500 at the end oF it..so i thought to myself easy money..i paid these ### £320 to the bank they provided..sure enough the date got cancelled...i have been fighting with these people..mr david scott and nicky..all i got was abuse over the phone..we are now into march and these people are still doing this..i contacted action fraud..the police..even my newspAper but to no avail i cant get help ..im still fighting this..i wont give up untill these people are caught and sent to prison..its not the money im bothered about now..they are messing with innocent peoples lives...
Please leave a comment..oR contact me on [protected]..i wamt

I had been search the www for issues with a company called Dates for Hire, it was a bit of a struggle but I got there, thank you to a bit of detective work and this site. I had a call a couple of weeks ago from a lady called Claire Knight, she made the job seem to good to be true, you get dresses bought for you, you get paid to go to events a driver to pick you up and drop you off etc. Then she mentioned a £280 advertising fee, this started to ring alarm bells. She called several times to convince me that the company was legit, I was about to pay the money but wanted to do a bit more searching, after she sent me the companies bank details. I had to pay a company called Mckendrick & Cohen who are supposedly banking in Ireland, their beneficiary are The Black Church, in Dublin. When I read the comment on here about a couple called Ann Marie and David Scott who supposedly live in Spain, it all fell into place. They have several web pages for escorting and they give themselves different names to make you think they are working for the company. They are very convincing con artists.
People want to do this kind of work because they are short of cash and to them we are easy targets. I hope they get caught and go to jail for fraud.
Thank you to all the people who posted things on here, if it wasnt for you I would be in so much more debt right now.

Thanks so much for this post!

I was about to sign up with Datesforhire as well. They started to get aggressive with us once we started asking questions about the "advertising" fee that needs to be paid. They told us they had a client waiting for my partner and I to go on a duo date and that we just needed to register with them before they can confirm our bookings. We asked for a terms and conditions they said they did not have this in writing. We asked for a contract they said they could not provide this with to us! but that we needed to hurry up and pay because they were only registering people until Wednesday and it was Illegal for them to put us on the books without fee. But yet somehow they could not offer us a contract nor a guarantee legal approach.

The lady we spoke to was called Annebell but through research found out her real name was Ann Marie Robinson who works with david Scott mcleish! this website is a scam! thank you so much for this post!

The same thing has happened to me. The manager said his name is David Scott but through a bit of detective work I found that his name is in fact david Scott mcleish.

They have robbed me, I can't believe how people could be so cruel.

A lady called Danielle danielle@datesforhire.net was dealing with me but now shes been sacked, I read this same exccuse on someone else's blog. It's all just a massive con.

Dont fall for it! They say that scambook is a scam in itself but this is not true!

Save your money dont fall into their trap!

A lady Victoria continuously called and emailed me giving me information setting up dates and making sure I paid the 279 pound fee. On the date of my 1st meeting I got a last minute call saying the client cancelled. that was a month and a half ago. Ive yet to hear back from them have a date or been able to reach anyone at the company. SCAM!