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Walls have ears........

elfieb
elfieb Posts: 530 Forumite
in Bankruptcy & living with it
Hi everyone, not posted for a while, but have been reading the boards daily!!

I would just like to warn people (especially on this forum), that you never know exactly who are reading your posts.

Without divulging into too much information, the IS were made aware of my circumstances by someone giving them details of where to find my diary entries posted on this board.
I will never know exactly who tipped the IS off, could be an employee of the IS, or just some random poster who felt a "moral" obligation to dob me in.........
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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  • So_Sad_Angel
    So_Sad_Angel Posts: 7,363 Forumite
    Thankyou for the reminder elfieb....absolutely right...this is a public forum & anyone can be reading....that includes ( very likely ) the IS too.

    Maybe a warning on giving dates & times of the court /BR hearing could be advised so to protect the anonimity of posters.

    Hope you are doing OK Hun,

    Angiexx
  • philnicandamy
    philnicandamy Posts: 15,685 Forumite
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    edited 18 October 2009 at 6:13PM
    I do know of four or five IS staff that regularly read this forum some examiners and some OR's (mine did) and there could be many many more that I dont know.. ...I do try to warn people of the perils when posting court/date and case number along with other various obvious info on here....many listen many dont

    I very much doubt its someone from the IS thats seen your diary posts...for one thing they dont have time to deal with the cases they have let alone sit here hunting people down...I know its naughty to do whats been done to you BUT if you've nothing to hide in the 1st place?
    We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will
  • philnicandamy
    philnicandamy Posts: 15,685 Forumite
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    just a thought though with one of your past posts......could this not be a coincidence?
    On another note...my "safe" bank account has been victim to fraud! Some joker took out a direct debit on my account, and completely cleared it!
    Was very nearly sick when I saw my statement!
    Bank have assured me that the money will be back in my account within 24 hours (still not there yet mind you, and I rang them yesterday) under an indemnity clause.
    Also waiting for a phone call from the fraud team.
    We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will
  • CG77
    CG77 Posts: 1,210 Forumite
    It's for this reason that when I posted wondering if we were too far on in our BR to get a BRU that I used phrases like 'in the next few weeks' or 'soon' when saying when our AD was.

    In our case we had nothing to hide, but didn't want to give our OR a tip-off we were half expecting a BRU in case he felt the need to oblige!!

    CG. x
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    Weight loss mission 2012 has officially begun!!
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  • maxmycardagain
    maxmycardagain Posts: 5,853 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    how would any poster be identifiable, unless stupid enough to use a real name?

    cheers



    Simon Cowell
  • philnicandamy
    philnicandamy Posts: 15,685 Forumite
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    its as long as you dont include other information such as dates/court/case reference etc...then due to the nature of this place nobody then can really be found..
    We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will
  • philnicandamy
    philnicandamy Posts: 15,685 Forumite
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    maxmycardagain wrote: »
    how would any poster be identifiable, unless stupid enough to use a real name?

    cheers



    Simon Cowell


    thats not the name you gave me last saturday night when you left me...:confused:
    We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will
  • tigerfeet2006
    tigerfeet2006 Posts: 14,030 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    If you say you were made BR at such and such a court at blah o'clock then it can be possible to trace names.

    So it is best to try and not give to many personal details.
    BSCno.87
    The only stupid question is an unasked one
    Loving life as a Kernow Hippy
  • blind-as-a-bat_2
    blind-as-a-bat_2 Posts: 4,304 Forumite
    They dont just read it to check on people, they have also changed a lot of things that strangely where a hot topic on here at the time:confused:
    Thats it, i am done, Blind-as-a-Bat has left the forum, for good this time, there is no way I can recover this account, as the password was random, and not recorded, and the email used no longer exits, nor can be recovered to recover the account, goodbye all …………. :(
  • philnicandamy
    philnicandamy Posts: 15,685 Forumite
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    Walls have ears........

    not fogetting they do really nice ice cream as well....:p:D
    We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will
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