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Priorty services register - are they a scam???

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Franbern Fri 25-Oct-24 09:04:40

Anyone know anything about an organisation calling itself 'Priority Services Register' (PSR)

This purports to be an organisation who keeps a register of vulnerable people who may needs more assistance during outages of anything in our homes (water, electricity, etc.

For many years I have been on the special register for water due to a medical condition - that has alwaysbeen arranged direct with my water supplier.

This PSR has only made any contafct ith me by email and has two links one to what it says is its welcome pack and another to terms and conditions.

No, I have not clicked on either links. I am naturally suspicious. Yes, I would come under vulnerable should there be any outages, but have never heard of this so-called organisation. My immediate reaction is just to delete their email, but wondered if there is any way I can check them out

pascal30 Sat 26-Oct-24 15:35:56

M0nica

I googled their website and my gut instinct says it is a spam.

To go on an energy suppliers priority list, you just contact your supplier directly you do not need to go through a third party. Your utility supplier will deal with you direct if there is any problem. It does not need an intermediary.

The site is very cleverly designed with the type faces, layout and general presentation that you get with government websites, thus giving you the comfortable feeling that this is an official site.

It gives an address in London that is a very new, not fully let, office and hotel developmeent in the city. I have both googled the address and looked at the building very carefully on Streetview and I can find no sign of any company with this name, although there is a company called the Powering Improvement, the Energy Networks Association, at that address. The purpose of this organisation si to improve HSE in the energy industry.

I wonder whether someone is trying to 'piggyback' a scam site on a perfectly legitimate organisation in the energy industry.

It talks about people joining the organisation, but no money seems to change hands, but I am pretty sure if you responded they would ask for lots of personal details to pass on to their ut ility 'partners', that would get no further than a team ofn scammers waiting to use the data for fraud.

Very good and helpful post Monica

OldFrill Sat 02-Nov-24 23:27:07

pascal30

M0nica

I googled their website and my gut instinct says it is a spam.

To go on an energy suppliers priority list, you just contact your supplier directly you do not need to go through a third party. Your utility supplier will deal with you direct if there is any problem. It does not need an intermediary.

The site is very cleverly designed with the type faces, layout and general presentation that you get with government websites, thus giving you the comfortable feeling that this is an official site.

It gives an address in London that is a very new, not fully let, office and hotel developmeent in the city. I have both googled the address and looked at the building very carefully on Streetview and I can find no sign of any company with this name, although there is a company called the Powering Improvement, the Energy Networks Association, at that address. The purpose of this organisation si to improve HSE in the energy industry.

I wonder whether someone is trying to 'piggyback' a scam site on a perfectly legitimate organisation in the energy industry.

It talks about people joining the organisation, but no money seems to change hands, but I am pretty sure if you responded they would ask for lots of personal details to pass on to their ut ility 'partners', that would get no further than a team ofn scammers waiting to use the data for fraud.

Very good and helpful post Monica

Monica's post gives totally incorrect information.
The site is legitimate as outlined in my earlier posts.