Tim Burchell A.Inst.Pa UK Private Investigators review: Background plus

Tim Burchell is scamming people out of money and not providing the agreed upon services people are paying for. He does not provide the information on the correct subject, he just finds someone with a similar first name and no verification to the connected known verified associates. It is fraud.

We provided extensive detailed information to him along with two connected business partners of the person we needed traced. The information we provided included verifiable details with passports for the subjects known associates and he chose to use an unverified person’s name and find some unrelated person connected to this unverified associate who happen to have the same first name.

The subject he sent us 3-pieces of information (name, address and associate) has the same first name as our subject but is not connected to the person we requested the deep background check be performed on or connected to the verified associates we provided.

What he promised was a detailed deep background check (background plus for £375) and what he sent us was a report with three pieces of useless information on a subject completely unrelated to who we asked for a trace to be performed. We did not even receive the information as promised on the basic background check which he charges £175.

Here is his email that he uses to induce his victims and claims he he offers:

“Standard Background Check

Our Standard Background Check will consist of the following, where available:

Current address and telephone number.
Date of Birth.
Aliases.
Births related to the person, where available.
Marriages.
Property Ownership.
Estimated property values.
Bankruptcies and County Court Judgments.
Relatives information.
Roommates and neighbours, where relevant.
Employment history.
Divorces.
Businesses live and failed.

Our fee for the standard background check will be £ 175.00 and we would expect to complete the report within 48 hours.

Enhanced Background Check

This option includes both the above. In addition, we provide the following checks:

Press, media and internet history.
Recent address history.
Previous address and linked address searches.
Professional capabilities.

Our fee for the enhanced background check will be £ 315.00 and we would expect to complete the report within 48 hours.

Enhanced Background Check Plus

This option includes both of the above. In addition, we provide the following checks:

International sanctions list checks.
Reported criminal activity.
Personal Assets, where possible.

Our fee for the enhanced background check plus will be £ 375.00 and we would expect to complete the report within 48-72 hours.

You can add ANYTHING else to the list (enhanced background PLUS check only) when you instruct us to proceed and these additional checks will be FREE of CHARGE unless advised otherwise.”

The “report” he provides after paying the fee is devoid of the information promised and is not on the related subject/person requested to be investigated. He lies to con private clients out of their money.

I have the entire back and forth as well as all the detailed information we provided to this con artist via email communications for documentation purposes. He refuses to have a phone conversation and as others have stated, his company was dissolved and it is clear he scams private clients and in reading some of his buried reviews (not on trust pilot as those are fake and bad reviews are removed and suppressed) it is clear he is doing this to multiple private clients. He is actively defrauding people of their money by not providing anything of what they paid for then he attacks them, threatening them if they say they will be making a review, trying to extort them into silence.

He did this to us after taking our money and giving us a bogus “report”. When I contacted him to dispute what he provided as being wrong and incomplete, he threatened me, tried to extort me through intimidation and threat of releasing the information we sent him, saying he would not keep it confidential and he works for the biggest UK law firms. Perhaps he does work for law firms and actually provides what they pay for but it is clear from the multitude of reviews from private clients across several platforms that he regularly defrauds private clients. He also tried to extort additional money out of us to do more “searches” even though we already paid for and gave him all the information we had on the subject and known links/associates of the subject with verified information.

I have all of this documented via email and have put in inquiries about his practice with bodies who oversee PI’s in UK (ABI and IPI). I hope they investigate/sanction this individual.

I would encourage those who have been scammed by this fraudster to also contact the UK police and make a report. If the police get enough reports they will hopefully take action against this individual so he cannot continue to scam private clients.

I will not be threatened and extorted into silence by this person who is committing fraud.