Invisible Man's UE diary

[InvisibleMan]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

NORTHERN ROCK

Unsecured loan
Date commenced: 2006
Approx balance: £12,000
Date last paid: early 2017
Currently not paying
Status in arrears, defaulted 2011
Account owner: Cabot

Key:
Red text = creditor action
blue text = my action
green text = comment

2009
April DMP started
2010
Oct Letter from Northern Rock stating loan now managed by NRAM
2011
Sept Sec 87 default notice from NRAM, even though the DMP has been up and running for over 2 years and no payments missed
Oct Letter from NRAM to say loan sold to Marlin
Oct NoA received from Marlin
2015
Feb Letter from Marlin advising they are now part of Cabot
2017
Apr Chase letter from Cabot ignored
May Chase letter from Cabot ignored
June 16th s77-79 request to Cabot

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[InvisibleMan]

Re: Invisible Man's UE Diary

BARCLAYCARD

Credit card
Date commenced: 2005
Approx balance: £200
Date last paid: early 2017
Currently not paying
Status in arrears, defaulted twice in 2009/10
Account owner: Cabot

This is the smallest debt, but strangely the only one still showing on my credit file, as it was registered by Cabot in 2011 (can they do that?) so will fall off in a few months anyway. Barclaycard was never able to produce an agreement of any description. I can't recall applying for it, but I was a Barclays customer and had already had another Barclaycard since the 1990s, at one point having both at the same time.

Key:
Red text = creditor action
blue text = my action
green text = comment

2009
April 1. DMP offer made. (Barclaycard accept the DMP payments every month until Nov 2011, before selling to Cabot)
October 5^th 2. Sec 87 default notice from Mercers, accompanied by threat of court action
2010
Jan 7^th 3. Send letter to Mercers requesting documentation under the CPR
Jan 11^th 4. Demand letter from Calder Financial
Jan 22^nd 5. Barclaycard reply to 3. above, and state they will “send credit agreement under separate cover”. This has never been sent.
Jan 22^nd 6. Barclaycard also send separately a copy of up to date T&Cs
Feb 3^rd 7. SAR letter sent to Barclaycard
Mar 9th 8. Response from Barclaycard to SAR. Includes old statements, letters etc, but no agreement
Mar 11^th 10. 2^nd Sec 87 default notice from Mercers
2011
Nov 11. Letter from Barclaycard informing me they have sold the account to Cabot
Dec 12. Letter from Cabot referencing transfer of the account
2017
May 13. Notice of arrears from Cabot
June 18th s.77-79 request sent to Cabot

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[InvisibleMan]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

BARCLAYS

Unsecured loan
Date commenced: 2008
Balance approx: £20,000
Date last full payment: 2009
Currently not paying
Status in arrears, defaulted 2009
Account owner: PRA

Key:
Red text = creditor action
blue text = my action
green text = comment

"Pre-approved" online loan given when I was a Barclays customer

2016
account assigned to PRA. Letter received from Barclays informing change of ownership
2017
January Stopped payments
May chase letter received offering discount Ignored
June 8th sec.77-79 CCA request sent
June 14th Letter from PRA stating account on hold Ignored
June 16th SAR sent to Barclays

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[InvisibleMan]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

HALIFAX (BANK of SCOTLAND)

Credit card
Date commenced: 2002
Balance approx: £4,000
Date last full payment: 2009
Currently not paying
Status in arrears, defaulted 2009
Account owner: PRA

Key:
Red text = creditor action
blue text = my action
green text = comment


2009
Sept S.87 default notice served by Halifax
2010
Feb 1st SAR sent to Halifax
Feb 19th Reply from Halifax. Includes Recon copy of 'agreement', which appears to be just T&Cs (See my comment at bottom of post). State they will send original agreement under separate cover. Warning about not using the services of a claims management company!
Mar 1st Send letter to Halifax pointing out I made a subject access request, not S.78, therefore I want a copy of the original agreement. They did not respond to this letter
Mar 6th Letter from Halifax admitting they are unable to provide a copy of the original agreement
2013
July 8th Letter from Halifax stating account assigned to Activ Kapital
July 8th Letter from Aktiv Kapital stating they have purchased account from LLoyds(!?). Since then it has always been referred to as a Lloyds account
2014
Nov letter received saying Activ Kapital has changed name to PRA Group
2015
Jan letter received saying account assigned to PRA No notice of assignment received
2017
Jan Stopped payments
May letter received demanding payment Ignored
June letter before claim received from PRA investigation & litigation dept. Letter demands response within x days or court proceedings will be issued
June 6th CCA & LBA request letters sent to PRA
June 14th Letter recvd from PRA in response to CCA request stating account on hold whilst they obtain requested information.
June16th Letter recvd from PRA asking me to complete and return income & expenditure. Ignored

Apart from the recon 'agreement' Halifax sent me above in response to SAR, I also have what I believe may be an original, similar, document when opening the account. However, they have very different content. I am sending both to Niddy for advice re enforceability

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[MisterK]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

No offence taken in the slightest, Invisible. I'm no expert here and I have absolutely no mandate to give anyone advice. I'm just another AAD'er doing pretty much the same as you and everyone else. Many people seem to tag entries with just the month & year, not the exact date, so putting the precise date on entries must be quite a recent move. I think that for most of the threatograms that are sent out it doesn't matter very much and I certainly don't list those individually anyway. There are clearly times when it's much more important, e.g. to check whether a DN is valid. I do exactly what the team recommends for the important items like that, writing the date actually received on the envelope, stapling the envelope to the letter etc. so there can be no doubt.

On the issue of a DCA putting two and two together, I think on balance there's probably more positive to it than any negative. I suspect most DCA's knowing that AAD might be involved will want to steer clear and look for easier targets. In fact with that in mind I think when a template goes to a DCA there is a good case to sign (using a suitable font) over the AAD signature strip and let them know that way who your support team is. They might be more likely to back off, knowing they are on the losing side.

But that's not advice, just in case I'm about to be misunderstood, it's just another thought. I've yet to send a template to a DCA (as opposed to an OC) although that is probably now not too far away.

[InvisibleMan]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

See my post # 58 for reassurance

Di

Thanks Di, that is re-assuring, and as I wrote earlier, I will amend the diary entries to show dates, as I can see the relevance of doing so. If I'm honest, I think, so what if a dca sees it and puts two and two together, I'm doing nothing wrong, and we still (just about) live in a democracy.

Over the past few years I have lived in continual fear of these people, and what I perceived they could do to me, my family, my job and my life. I know this has created in me a 'siege mentality', hence the paranoia. And I'm not too difficult to track down online because of my job. But then I was fighting them on my own, on and off, with little success. Now I'm here, I'm not alone and in good hands, and I don't fear them any more.

The support from members of this site, whether it is direct advice, or reading someone else's journey, is amazing, and has already transformed my outlook, my only regret is that I didn't find it years ago! However, back when this all started, I had brief experience on another popular forum, where I found that I was bombarded by the opinions of many, often in disagreement with one another, which wasn't much use to me as I didn't know who to believe.

So to come here and get expert advice every step of the way, is priceless, and whilst I eagerly read the opinions of others on the same journey, I will only be acting on the advice of the experts - no offence MisterK

[MisterK]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

No problems Roger. We'd best leave Invisible's thread or he'll start to think it's been hijacked.

It is indeed a beautiful day.

[Roger]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

Hi Roger, I'm actually a complete believer & supporter of the AAD process. No ifs & buts.

Not everyone provides a fully dated log of every letter received and I admire those who do at least as much as those who don't. It's not my place at all to suggest that anyone should do any differently to what they already do, Far from it. I'm just hoping I might be able to make a useful comment that some might find helpful.

AAD wisely head up old entries with the warning reference Old Threads. Which is my point about Hindsight and Foresight.
What a beautiful Day!!!

"..Warning: This is an Old Thread
This discussion is older than 365 days. information contained in it may no longer be current

[MisterK]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

Hi Roger, I'm actually a complete believer & supporter of the AAD process. No ifs & buts.

Not everyone provides a fully dated log of every letter received and I admire those who do at least as much as those who don't. It's not my place at all to suggest that anyone should do any differently to what they already do, Far from it. I'm just hoping I might be able to make a useful comment that some might find helpful.

[Roger]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

All your points taken Di and there's no alarm involved as such, it's more about whether detail as specific as that is required at such an early stage considering how much correspondence often seems to be involved - and perhaps balancing the pros & cons of slogging away putting it all out as opposed to just the really date critical material. Further down the road it could obviously be crucial to know exactly how many days have elapsed between point A & point B, but as you so rightly say that's when it goes to AAD+ anyway.

It's brilliant that no one's identity has been revealed/discovered yet, though dare I mention that a DCA might need to have a screw loose to let you know they'd found a useful back channel. However this is not exactly cold war stuff, I'd be the first to agree..

Taking the wider view, no-one in this community should have to feel any paranoia and I know that transparency should always win in the end, so I'll rest my case.

You're very dedicated to be doing this on such a beautiful day, I'm sure many people have a lot to thank you for Di. Thank you for reading my input, hopefully it's of use. Kind regards.

I am very grateful for the Mods and Di for their pearls of Wisdom
"..it's more about whether detail as specific as that is required at such an early stage considering how much correspondence often seems to be involved - and perhaps balancing the pros & cons of slogging away putting it all out as opposed to just the really date critical material. .."
The AAD Diary route works and avoids the mistakes of Hindsight (your observation above are hindsight) by Foresight of Current issues and Law.
I don't think you have perhaps thought enough about the Wisdom of the AAD Case approach. For me I will SLOG away so that the really critical material IS IDENTIFIED by the MODS and very experienced members.

[MisterK]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

All your points taken Di and there's no alarm involved as such, it's more about whether detail as specific as that is required at such an early stage considering how much correspondence often seems to be involved - and perhaps balancing the pros & cons of slogging away putting it all out as opposed to just the really date critical material. Further down the road it could obviously be crucial to know exactly how many days have elapsed between point A & point B, but as you so rightly say that's when it goes to AAD+ anyway.

It's brilliant that no one's identity has been revealed/discovered yet, though dare I mention that a DCA might need to have a screw loose to let you know they'd found a useful back channel. However this is not exactly cold war stuff, I'd be the first to agree..

Taking the wider view, no-one in this community should have to feel any paranoia and I know that transparency should always win in the end, so I'll rest my case.

You're very dedicated to be doing this on such a beautiful day, I'm sure many people have a lot to thank you for Di. Thank you for reading my input, hopefully it's of use. Kind regards.

[Joanna Connolly Solicitors]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

Just wary of not giving away too much information to identify me, I'm aware anyone can read these threads.

See my post # 58 for reassurance

Di

[InvisibleMan]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

HBOS

Credit card
Date commenced: 2002
Balance approx: £4,000
Date last full payment: 2009
Currently not paying
Status in arrears, defaulted 2009
Account owner: PRA

Key:
Red text = creditor action
blue text = my action
green text = comment


2011
?? account assigned to Activ Kapital No notice of assignment ever received
2014
November letter received saying Activ Kapital has changed name to PRA Group
2015
January letter received saying account assigned to PRA No notice of assignment received?
2017
January Stopped payments
May letter received demanding payment Ignored
June letter before claim received from PRA investigation & litigation dept. Letter demands response within x days or court proceedings will be issued Need to respond - shall I send the letter to Niddy?
June CCA & LBA request letters sent
June Letter from PRA in response to CCA request stating account on hold
June Letter from PRA asking me to complete and return income & expenditure form

Lol, just found a load of docs re this account that I wasn't aware of, including s.87 notice and SAR responses. Sorting it out and will amend diary....

[Joanna Connolly Solicitors]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

For exactly the same reason I don't give exact dates either. I have all the info pretty much instantly available in a physical file in the event that exact dates are required at any point. You can always send a PM to the "crew" I would have thought if an exact date is important as it obviously is sometimes. DCAs might well be sending large numbers of the same letter per day, but that's an assumption that may be wrong in a particular case. We do know they monitor the threads, I'm sure Niddy has pointed that out just recently, so providing a date might be the missing piece that enables them to link your thread with yourself - if they wanted to do that. Whether that matters or not depends on the individual case but not knowing what's in the future I wouldn't facilitate it if I didn't have to.

There's no need for anyone to be alarmed about potential security issues.

This forum has an army of Moderators and a Site Team who monitor all posts. If anything was deemed a risk to a member's identity it would be edited or deleted in a nanosecond

AAD+ exists to allow more sensitive and/or legal issues to be discussed in private.

Accurate advice can't be given without the facts and dates are an important part of the process. Withholding information but offering to send it by PM may seem a good idea (albeit time consuming to the "crew" who are all volunteers) but the forum is a community where experiences are shared (unless there's a need for secrecy) because that's how members and guests learn the ropes of 'unenforceability'.

If legal proceedings are in progress then that's a different matter.

The forum has been up and running for seven years and no one's identity has been revealed/discovered yet - touch wood!

Di

[MisterK]

Re: Invisible Man's UE diary

For exactly the same reason I don't give exact dates either. I have all the info pretty much instantly available in a physical file in the event that exact dates are required at any point. You can always send a PM to the "crew" I would have thought if an exact date is important as it obviously is sometimes. DCAs might well be sending large numbers of the same letter per day, but that's an assumption that may be wrong in a particular case. We do know they monitor the threads, I'm sure Niddy has pointed that out just recently, so providing a date might be the missing piece that enables them to link your thread with yourself - if they wanted to do that. Whether that matters or not depends on the individual case but not knowing what's in the future I wouldn't facilitate it if I didn't have to. Just my tuppence worth.