The changing face of Spanish tourism
Whilst the title of this article specifically mentions Spain, TCA are in no way convinced this is just a Spanish phenomenon, it merely highlights what we believe is a global paradigm shift in the way we holiday. What piqued our interest was a headline in the Sur in English, the main English language newspaper for […]
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Toucan Services – Toucan play this game
We will keep this one short. Over the past few days we have had reports of cold calls being made by an outfit named Toucan Services. The call follows the same pattern, a pitch then the innocent statement of “passing over to a trusted third party”. As we have stated in previous articles, this is […]
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Timeshare claim scam – The scatter gun approach!
Over the years TCA have seen some very convincing scams and some driven by sheer stupidity! It’s the latter we will be looking at today. First off is the normal cold call; then they email their potential victim with what can only be described as utter rubbish. Once again we have a fake court case […]
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Companies House steps up its game – Not before time
Over the years TCA has been in existence we have often criticised the rather lackadaisical way Companies house has investigated data provided on application of new companies. Part of the TCA investigation process is to look for company registration details, in many cases we find that scam companies are in fact legally registered and wonder […]
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Timeshare Canada – Lake Okanagan Pt 2
After publishing news on the sad state of affairs at Lake Okanagan Resort in British Columbia, more information has been given to TCA, most not good were afraid. After the McDougall Creek Wildfire destroyed most of the resort, nothing seems to have moved forward, that is with the exception of annual maintenance bills, and the […]
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Research is the key to avoiding fraud
Last month we published an article highlighting the sort of investigations you need to carry out before buying a timeshare, today we will look at the sort of research you need to carry out to avoid becoming the victim of fraud relating to timeshare sales, exits and claims. Over the past few weeks both the […]
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Canary Islands – Tourists go home!
There is no denying that the Canary Islands comprising Tenerife, the largest island, followed by Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, with the smallest being La Graciosa, collectively they represent the timeshare capital of Europe. The majority of timeshare resorts are on Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria and it’s these […]
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Timeshare USA – FBI New York warns on timeshare resale scams
Although TCA focus primarily on timeshare scams concerning owners of timeshare in the UK, the USA has its fair share of problems. Timeshare fraud is on the rise and in the States resale fraud is the number one. TCA have produced many reports regarding the lack of a secondary market relating to timeshare sales. In […]
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Les Naturelles, Leukerbad, Switzerland closes for timeshare owners
News has reached us from some rather disgruntled timeshare owners who have all stated that their ownership will be cancelled with effect from the end of this year. This presents another sad indictment of the state of the timeshare industry in Europe. According to the communication from the resort, there is no buyback offer, however […]
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Contract Advocates – A new scam company?
A friend of TCA who lives in Gran Canaria alerted us to a Facebook posting on an employment group in Gran Canaria, nothing unusual about that except the content of the advert. Very few companies in Spain employ English speaking tele marketing staff, and when the advert specifically had the word “timeshare” in the text, […]
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