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Based on 570 reviews, last reviewed 4th Aug 2025
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Pockit its been such a big help in my life. Pockit its been such a big help in my life.im so grateful cause they make my life easy never had any problems or issues with pockit ,great service pro... Read more Reviewed on: 12th March 2025
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Daniella

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1

Stay clear they will take your money and ask proof r... Stay clear they will take your money and ask proof restrict bank for days with no update can’t speak to customer service! No contact number block beni... Read more Reviewed on: 4th August 2025
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Pockit offer a Prepaid Mastercard® account with no credit checks required.

You can get a £50 cash advance before payday and earn cashback on eligible purchases. This account can also help you build your credit score. There’s a monthly fee to pay for the Pockit Account.

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Useless

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Totally useless. It takes about an hour and a half or so everytime you load your card by bank transfer. They are less than useless on Sundays. Today is Sunday, my card was loaded at 10am and it's half 3 and it's still not gone on. I've rang them twice. The first time the guy (who you could barely understand) couldn't care less and said it could take up to 5 hours to go on my card, I've just rang again and the woman said that their fasterpayments aren't working but they are trying to fix it. I don't expect to be able to access this money at all today now. Once you load your card, they get the money then it just seems like they'll credit your account when they can be bothered. Avoid like the plague. NB.. Every time my card has been loaded on a Sunday there has been problems. It's like they run with a total skeleton staff that don't know what they are doing. The last time I had need to ring it was a Sunday too. I had someone put me £1 in because its costs 99p to withdraw cash from an ATM (fair enough) but virtually a whole day had gone by and it hadn't gone on. When I rang them that time NO ONE in their building knew what the minimum amount was that you had to put on so you could load your card. She even went away to ask. You couldn't make it up. Edited to add: It's 17:40 and my money still isn't on my card. It was put on at 10:00 this morning. Edit: 19:31 still not in. Reviewed on: 10th September 2017
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James Marshall

Totally and utterly useless

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Totally useless. It takes about an hour and a half or so everytime you load your card by bank transfer. They are less than useless on Sundays. Today is Sunday, my card was loaded at 10am and it's half 3 and it's still not gone on. I've rang them twice. The first time the guy (who you could barely understand) couldn't care less and said it could take up to 5 hours to go on my card, I've just rang again and the woman said that their fasterpayments aren't working but they are trying to fix it. I don't expect to be able to access this money at all today now. Once you load your card, they get the money then it just seems like they'll credit your account when they can be bothered. Avoid like the plague. NB.. Every time my card has been loaded on a Sunday there has been problems. It's like they run with a total skeleton staff that don't know what they are doing. The last time I had need to ring it was a Sunday too. I had someone put me £1 in because its costs 99p to withdraw cash from an ATM (fair enough) but virtually a whole day had gone by and it hadn't gone on. When I rang them that time NO ONE in their building knew what the minimum amount was that you had to put on so you could load your card. She even went away to ask. You couldn't make it up. Edited to add: It's 17:40 and my money still isn't on my card. It was put on at 10:00 this morning. Edit: 19:31 still not in. Reviewed on: 10th September 2017
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The Jatania family Pockit scam..

1
The Jatania family Pockit scam.. For months I have been sending ID to pockit to upgrade my account, but they keep ignoring my request. That was until I contacted Trustpilot. Pockit called me within the hour saying, send your ID again. So I agreed, but before I did, my lawyer said, "Before you send it to them, send it to the following people first" So... 1. I sent it to The Office Of Fair Trading. 2. I sent it to Verisign. 3. I sent it to the treasury. 4. And finally, I sent it to the Bank of England. I received confirmation almost immediately from all 4 of these sources. All stated the photo was fully legible & would be acceptable to them as proof. One of the sources was kind enough to type it out in full & send it to me. I then sent the same photo to Pockit & do you know what they did? They emailed me & said.. Quote.. "Proof of address is not compliant with our standards for upgrading" Ahaa! And what standards would they be pray I ask Mr Jatania? Well, there you have it folks, overwhelming, absolute and unequivicol proof that Pockit are liars & scammers & frankly, as I have just proven, pretty dumb ones at that.. The family behind this scam, is a london based Indian family.. The Jatania family.. the pockit element being run by one Virraj Jantania.. If you are a Pockit customer or investor... know someone who is.. GET YOUR MONEY OUT STRAIT AWAY OR YOU WILL LOOSE IT! I should also extend the same advice to those who have invested their own cash in the Pockit scam and they are.. Sir Alex Ferguson... Concentric Ventures Harold Mechelynck Jon Moulton Mothercare CEO - Mark Newton-Jones Kevin Reynolds (a partner at Bridgepoint Capital) Colin Harris (founder of Fresh Direct, the food wholesaler) Stuart Middleton (former creative director of Card Factory) Reviewed on: 26th August 2017
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paul thomson

Thieves, con-artists and fraudsters

1
Been denied my wages and locked out my account even after providing all requested information from them, I am now seeking court proceedings against as it is effectively theft. Never trust this company with your money!! Reviewed on: 25th August 2017
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Macaulay akins

pockit scam

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Pockit Scam! Appeal to anyone in the vicinity of Pockit offices.. Please phone your local CID or FRAUD SQUAD & get them round to Pockit offices to investigate.. Major Fraud & money laundering operation & misappropriation of customer funds.. Reviewed on: 23rd August 2017
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POCKIT IS A SCAM!

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I sent upgrade documents to Pockit over two weeks ago.. Pockit acknowledged these documents, stating I would receive an email within 48 hours. That was over 2000 hours ago & all of my emails since have been ignored. They don't answer the phone. I was booked to go on holiday tomorrow but I've had to cancel it because pockit have all my money I don't have any Food, Water, Gas, Electricity. Neither myself nor my dog have eaten for two days. Ive told pockit this & they still haven't responded. Only something so desperately depraved, cruel & evil would fail to respond to that information. Im past caring about the money, we're going to die. Please! for your good folks, do not give pockit any money, its a SCAM! They're not regulated like banks, they're just a bunch of scamers from Pakistan looking to make a quick buck. I have over 10,000 emails from people who have said the same things I have. People have even told me, members of their family have committed suicide because of what pockit did to them. Its all about the money folks, they don't care about you. Once they get enough, they'll disappear. And don't pay any attention to the recent reviews, because all they do is when all the bad reviews build up, they falsify a dozen reviews just to push the bad ones to the back. Proof of this is... Go read there Twitter account... OMG, thousands of complaints, one after the other. But they don't care folks, all they want is for you to keep giving them your money. I've even told them to give me a simple appology, put my account right & I will remove all my posts, but nope, not a peep, because they just don't give a dam. Quite frankly, you would never get gangsters behaving like this. Proper gangsters are very respectful people, they have manners. These pockit guys think manners is a big country house. Do not have anything to do with pockit folks, get your money out (if you can) & put it into the post office they do a pay as you go mastercard exactly the same as pockit, except the post office card actually works & your moneys safe. SERIOUSLY.. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!POCKIT IS A SCAM! Reviewed on: 23rd August 2017
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paul thomson

The most disgusting service ever

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Customer service has no answer at none of the questions Reviewed on: 22nd August 2017
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Maria Kamatovic

Would give no stars if i could

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Customer service is TERRIBLY. They have my £50 but are refusing to give it back. I have EVERYTHING they have asked now telling they wont discuss my issue via email but to call customer services. Wrong number given and once i googled correct number the line was just cut off. UPDATE so nothing just getting the same auto email reply. Have tried calling but just kept on hold for ages (20 mins) one call Reviewed on: 17th August 2017
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Rachal

BACs transfer missing of £1,000,

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BACs transfer missing of £1,000, been 2 months, 2 investigations and still missing... promises every 2 weeks that it has now 'cleared' and long phone calls with no-one calling you back! Reviewed on: 8th August 2017
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van ticar

OK for a year, then wham! £70 gone and no response

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I would have thought that if a customer/account holder has lost this amount (£70), a properly organised financial concern would quickly respond to put it right. I have waited three days and Nothing. So presumably this disorganisation is designed to take your money. Very sad about this and rather annoyed. Reviewed on: 7th August 2017
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