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Sky Account Fraudulently Taken Out, Advice Please
Sorry if this is not posted in the correct section. My partner's mother has taken out multiple credit accounts ion her children's names without their consent or knowledge. I'm having great difficulty with Sky, she has ran up over £3,000 in debt with sky on internet, TV, phone and iPad contracts! We have only today found…
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Credit score help, with Littlewoods
Hello, so I’ll start by saying I’m not completely educated on credit scores and how they work and what affect them other than the obvious. So I’m here to ask a few questions. I'm trying to move out of home as a first time renter and my credit score is terrible. Well, except it’s not. It’s 408 on clearscore but 912 on…
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Joint account with ex partner!
Hi, looking for some advice. I recently managed to track down my ex who I had a joint account with. His business went under and so he took an IVA in his name and consolidated everything. When we split up I'd asked him to remove my name from the joint bank, long story short he didn't. I eventually got him to the bank and we…
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Why does my Clearscore app now say hard searches are only for 6 months? Is this right?
I am trying to find but cant see it anywhere
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Credit File inconsistencies - affecting rating
Hi everyone, Just looking for some advice. I've been working on my credit file and it's doing quite well. Experian and TransUnion both report score as excellent, but Equifax is under 500/1000. I have checked and it seems to be because my credit card is not on ClearScore (Equifax) for some reason but it it is on the other…
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Missed monthly payment on credit file
Looking for some help as I am hoping to get a mortgage soon. My energy provider has said I missed my monthly payment in October but I was told by them to cancel my direct debit as they where changing it from £100 to £290 which I challenged and paid £150 over the phone. I now have an arrangement for a new direct debit for…
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Very.co.uk
Hi. I just came out of a BNPL and interest has been added on at around £100. This is fine etc. I have no concerns about the amount and paying the debt. The debt is £1500. My first bill has come in at £103. The interest rate in my account is 9.9%. Does anyone know how they arrive at a first payment figure of £103? Basically…
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Credit report needed to prove my mortgage is paid-off
So, last week I discovered that my mortgage payment protection plan with L&G was still active, despite my mortgage having been paid-off in 2017. For whatever reason, the small monthly premiums were missed, until I spotted the policy renewal document from last year in a pile old documents I was sorting.I gave them a call,…
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Financial Ombudsman Case
Good evening, I recently won a case through the financial ombudsman against a credit card company for unaffordable lending. The debt from the credit card was sold to a debt collection agency. The financial ombudsman has ruled that all negative comments are to be removed from my credit file. I have 2 defaults on my file, 1…
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Equifax rubbish
My daughter has been subject to identity fraud. She's spent hours on the phone for months. Experian have been brill cleared everything. Now she's found searches have appeared on Clearscore. Experian have advised other companies but clearscore just referred her to Equifax. They have been appalling clearly following a…
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Mortgage Refusal - default removal
Long story short, we have been paying a DMP for several years now and we only have 2 creditors left on this (Started with 9). We have been looking at getting a mortgage and the 1 thing that is stopping us is that one of the remaining creditors has us down as 'defaulted' as they have not been receiving the minimum monthly…
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Sudden experian score drop
Hi everyone, I'll start this by saying I know that the actual number given by credit ref agencies isn't what a lender actually looks at but.... My experian score has dropped by 150 points overnight from 'excellent' to 'fair' and I don't know why. I don't pay for the extra report but noticed that in the summary my credit…
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Credit Score
Hi All, I have got a credit card to improve my credit score by using it for some of my day-to-day expenditures and then having a direct debit set up to pay the statement off in full each month. Will my credit score improve significantly quicker if I use my credit card for ~£500 a month compared to ~£10 a month for example…
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Lowell default incorrectly placed on Equifax credit report.
Would really appreciate any help on this. I’m going through a living nightmare. A couple of years ago I received some threatening letters from Lowell chasing payment for an account with BT. Having never held an account with BT, I was pretty confused and called them up. After speaking with someone over the phone, it became…
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MSE Credit Club
I was wondering if the MSE Credit Club will allow me to see if there has been unathorised credit checks run or other suspicious activity etc? Similar to Experian, I appreciate that MSE Credit Club is monthly rathern on demand. Many Thanks
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Defaults
I have recently been told by my insurance company that they will be issuing a default on my credit report because I was 2 days late paying my insurance. I am on maternity leave and the initial date of the direct debit has always been awkward but as I was working full time I luckily always had the money to hand, on this…
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Experian and Equifax
How can the scores be so vasty different on the two? I have 987 on Expedia and 617 on Equifax. So excellent to good. My husband has 976 and 517 🤔 so excellent but only fair on Equifax.. Can anyone shed light on this. It seems very strange they can be so vasty different.
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Overdraft - to keep or not to keep?
Is having an unused overdraft good or bad for credit rating please? In have £1500 at the moment, considering reducing it
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PRA Group
Has any one had any dealings recently with PRA Group? After further scrutiny of my multi credit file, its appears that they have decided to add £1 extra to the 5 defaulted accounts with original debtor. These accounts where all settled in full about 6 months ago, another trick ive noticed is they have been marked as…
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Welcome finance
I took out a secured loan with welcome finance late 2007. In 2008 I was declared bankrupt and even though I knew I couldn’t put this loan into my bankruptcy i went to welcome finances office in Southend to show them my paper work and to explain I wasn’t in a position to make my payments. they took copies of all documents…
