This might be a good place to remind everyone (not the posters here who, like most who saw this thread, are obviously not going to be contacting the OP to arrange ANYTHING, let alone a consultation!) that when you hire a professional like an accountant, you should know their name, the name of their accountancy company and the address, phone number, etc.
Nobody who puts winky faces in their posts (suggesting that your "free consultation" will likely just involve him masturbating at you like a tedious idiot) or uses immature, silly email addresses should be considered professional enough to hire to do a serious job like accountancy.
Make sure that if you approach an accountant, you know just as much about them as they'll need to know about you. You'll be sending them your bank statements, sharing all your personal financial details, and corresponding with them regularly. So they will know everything about you. It is therefore best to approach a proper person who works for a proper accountancy company, and make sure to contact them through appropriate channels (i.e. email to their work email address - this gives you and him and his company* a record of all of his communications with you; texting, on the other hand, is not appropriate in a professional setting despite what certain text-pests might try to say!). Do not leave yourself open to god-knows what awful stuff (blackmail, most likely) by 'hiring' some foolish random berk to do god-knows what with all of your personal and financial details.
I know this probably seems too obvious to be worth a post, but I wanted to expound on the very accurate reactions of the posters above just in case anyone reads this thread, or sees anything similar from other idiots out there like the OP here, and feels unsure about whether they can trust someone. The short answer: Not if they're keeping themselves anonymous.
*Important note: You can privately decide with your accountant, perhaps over the phone or during a meeting at their office, that you'd like your job description to be put down as something like "Therapist" etc, which means that in all of your correspondance this job title can be used and nobody would know from reading it what you really do. And either way, it's much more important to protect yourself from random weirdos and from the tax man than it is to lie to people who don't even know you and in whose professional interests it lies to keep your real job a secret anyway. They are taking your money to do a job, basically, so they aren't going to go telling people your real job unless they're a bit stupid, which they hopefully won't be if they are a proper accountant who works for a proper company. Whew!
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