Active since Nov 2020
I don't know this company but they are debiting my bank account every month in succession for so many years already and I simply can't stop the debits. They go by two names and debit twice every month. The one name is Astrecover and the other is Otter mist trading.
Fraudulent Scamsters! They showed me their website as proof that they are running a legitimate business. Took my ID number and told me of whatever traffic offenses there was on my name and what it would cost to get it cleared. They first requested that I give half the money so they can get started and would bring the proof and receipts the very next day, as this Nikolai is the night shift manager at Syntell, and does the necessary payments whenever he's on duty. We gave this guy who said his name was Igshaan Salie, business partner of Nikolai, the first R2000 and waited in suspense. Next morning Igshaan phoned and said that they had problems with the system and Nikolai did the payment, but because of the system being down intermittently, it's difficult to produce proof as yet, I got Nikolai's number by him, and on phoning Nikolai myself, who sounded like a foreign national, he told me that the system is down due to a national server and whatsapped proof via an excerpt which he took from Cape talk. Later during the day, Igshaan phoned to say that they discovered that I also have two judgements against my name, and would not be able to clear my name altogether unless I give them an extra R750 to clear that as well. I became a bit sceptic and started questioning both by phoning Nikolai in order to see if their stories correspond. I felt a little trapped between a rock and a hard place, but it seemed that I had no options and agreed on paying. I then took the other R2000 to Igshaan that night. They promised to bring the receipt and printout for the first half that I paid for so far, when they come to collect the second half. As we were speaking, Igshaan also mentioned that his cousin owns Lalla's tyres in Grassy Park, and if ever we needed tyres, he could get us a good discount. So my wife arranged that he brings tyres with for our Polo, but he phoned her to say that she should send him some money first so he could pay his cousin before he takes the tyres. She then put R1000 into Shoprite and sent him the pin via whattsapp. To cut a long story short its now the third day and after much stress and frustration, there's still no proof, no money, and they just keep on making more and more empty promises.
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