Fraudsters target Barclays Pingit customer in 'smishing' scam that makes bogus

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 9th October 2015 20:02
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A week or so ago I received a Default Note from JC International.

This followed an arrears notice for £10.00, which had apparently accrued from an agreement I had with them to pay £5 per month that I had supposedly agreed to around September 2014 on the Monument account JC Interna...

Hi,

This is all new, I have had a little read and would like to ask for some help. Stupidly many years I signed a joint HP agreement 03. We parted ways and I was lead to believe that the car had been refinanced to remove me from the agreement 04. After checking my credit file in 09 I discovered...

Hi Guys,

I posted something yesterday in the parking fines section, this is to do with the legal side of it, no the parking fines themselves.

My partner has been issued with a CCJ for £500 for 4 parking fines (parking eye, was told it was 4 by the court)

The...

Most Ph.D. students spend their days reading esoteric books and stressing out about the tenure-track job market. Thomas Herndon, a 28-year-old economics grad student at UMass Amherst, just used part of his spring semester to shake the intellectual foundation of the global austerity movement.
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Just got a letter from iQor regarding one of my debts which we are treating as unenforceable. It's asking that I check my balance against my records and to provide details of my last three payments and to return it to them in the business envelope.

all part of their 'customer service'...

Police Warning - Bogus Environment Agency Bailiff

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 11th April 2013 13:05.

Lincolnshire Police and the Environment Agency are warning members of the public that a bogus bailiff may be operating in Lincolnshire. The man...
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ASA slams breast cancer device claims - AOL Money UK

This thing is a load of crapola and if anyone is concerned about breast cancer please see your GP it annoys me seeing these sold in boots and the likes.

So save yourself the 86.00 and go to a doctor.

New twist in 'energy saving' scam

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 8th March 2012 10:58.

Victims of an "energy saving" device scam are being targeted for a second time with bogus offers of compensation. Elderly householders have been...

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Bogus car insurance claims crackdown: 5,000 firms chasing no-win no-fee and 700 of them have been st

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 6th February 2012 18:37.

Tough new curbs on bogus car-accident injury claims to stop Britain being the ‘whiplash capital of...

Warning over bogus Carlisle CAB calls offering debt help

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 27th October 2011 17:31.

Imposters claiming to be from Carlisle’s Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) are using cold calls to prey on people with money problems and offer them......

THE Welsh Government is expecting top officials at the University of Wales to resign following “cash for qualifications” screened by the BBC, it has emerged.
On Wednesday, an undercover investigation was screened by BBC Wales which showed a reporter posing as a student and paying...

Bogus financial adviser jailed for tax fraud

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 2nd September 2011 17:23.

*Bogus financial adviser jailed for tax fraud* ---Quote (Originally by 5corpio)--- A financial adviser who fraudulently manipulated his...

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