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Abbey Visa Debit Card Scammed Again!
** Apologies to those of you who may have read this post before, but I've just realised that I'd posted it on the wrong board ** Having been the victim of card fraud twice in less than 2 months, I am asking for your ideas and opinions. I have a Visa debit card with my Abbey business account and at the end of March, I…
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MBNA and the retired
Hi Im helping an elderly relative with his finances and have written a few letters to MBNA but they are refusing to accept any arrangement, they refuse to set up a authority for me even though my relative wrote to them and asked that they speak to me and they also refuse to not phone my relative. He is 75 years old,…
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Credit card dispute refunded then reclaimed
Hi all. I am after some advice. I recently went to purchase a car and it resulted in a non refunded deposit which I paid through my Nationwide Gold Visa card. I put forward an dispute in March that was then investigated. The following month the £500 deposit was refunded. Naturally I was unsure if it had just been refunded…
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Advice with Virgin Credit Card Please
Just wondered if someone could advise me please? Just opened a Virgin credit card because of the 0% for 16 months. My first payment was due on 27th of month, I made a payment on 23rd it came out of my bank on 25th but didn't show on credit card until 28th. I have now been charged £12 late payment fee and charged interest…
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free gift
Is there any free gifts out there for taking out a credit card :confused: many thanks Dawn :A
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Redesign of card section
Feedback welcome, please see this http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=21586083#post21586083 (Please reply there not here) Martin :)
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Credit Cards Abroad????
I've recently booked a holiday to Italy, booking hotels with my credit card direct with the hotel. I've since found advice on this website that says when spending abroad apply for specific cards that don't charge extra for using them in Europe (a European load?) Does this mean that what I have paid for using my original…
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Credit card lies?
Hi all, First time poster, but often read the site for advice and tips. However I couldn't find anything like what I have been though this week. On Monday I attempted to pay off the balance and close the account on my credit card. When attempting to pay I was told that my debit card has been "declined" and that I should…
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debt management
Hi I have been in touch with a debt managment company that have told me they can freeze my credit cared interest. A problem I have though is one of the credit cards is a Lloyds TSB credit card. I also have a Lloyds TSB current account and business account. I am not worried about the personal account as that can easily be…
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Balance transfer problems
I recently took advantage of the 0% offered by Virgin and transferred £4k from my Barclaycard Platinum - this has showed up on my Virgin account as going through on 14th, but my Barclaycard balance is still the same. I phoned Barclaycard and was told there were no transactions pending and it could take 7 days or more... in…
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Consolidating cc debt
Hi.... I've just checked my credit report and woh its dropped over the last year. I think mainly due to accuring large amounts on cc's, about £10,000 :o ...no sympathy i know. Anyway, i have around £5,000 in savings which was going towards a new mortgage with my partner (no way will that be possible now i guess for a…
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Tesco cc added 5 days onto period without telling us
Hello We have a tesco mastercard that since christmas has been paid of in full every month, which we've had no problems until this month. First they messed up the direct debit and only took the min payment instead of the full amount. We called them and they promised to refund charges and sort out the direct debit so it…
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Need to remove a default - debt in dispute
I apologise if this is the wrong forum, please move my post if you feel it is. The situation is this. I lived with my MIL for about 3 years from 2001 to 2004. During that time I must have at some point applied for a Fashion World catalogue. I never ordered anything from them, ever. So I left MIL’s house in 2004 and didn’t…
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credit card debt only person has died
my father died with a balance of 600 owing on his mastercard they are still asking me to pay the debt is this right ?
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Virgin Credit Card
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virgin application......
Hi,I applied for the virgin cc to make use of the 0% balance transfere,after filling in the application online was told they needed to make more checks etc,this was just over a week ago and have heard nothing....nada..zilch!! if they were going to decline me I thought I would have heard something by now. Jx
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Are you liable for Current Account Fraud
Here are the facts, can someone tell me who is liable in this instance? - Registered for a new Vodafone contract phone - Had a call on same day from 'Vodafone' - They asked me to validate account with address etc. not pin number, but account number. - Then discovered 2 days later that money had been taken out of current…
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Fraud...please help....
Dear All, I wonder if anyone can help......two days ago my mother who lives in Spain checked her bank statement and saw a transaction going out for £500.00. It turns out that the amount was for lots of ipods, 20 in fact that she did not order. She has been scammed and we think someone must have got her bank details when…
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pound credit card for foreigners?
Hi, I lost my old credit card of my bank in the UK. (created it when I was an international student in the UK) and my bank refused to issue me a new one. I wanted a pound credit card to be associated with my bank account in the UK. Can anyone tell me about a card that welcomes foreigners not living in the UK and easy to…
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1st (proper) card
I've always been a debit card user, but work have decided that we'll have to pay our own expenses now and claim them back, which could take anywhere up to 3 months. Unfortunately for me my business purchases tend to be irregular (a few times a year) and anywhere between £500 and £1,500 each time; not the short-term travel…
