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debrag
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Has anyone hear of there people?
I have learn that the previous person to live at our address (moved out 13th June 2010) had a debt with Next Retails for £389.21 they have passed the debt to Cabot who have now instructed FIRE. These people say they will pass the account onto DoorStep Agents to collect the outstanding balance if they aren't contacted immediately.
What should we do? I doubt they will send anyone out and we won't be answering the door to people we don't know. Thankfully the last tenants installed a peep hole thingy, probably for this reason. They have 6 kids neither work and they have done up their new home with payday loans!
I have learn that the previous person to live at our address (moved out 13th June 2010) had a debt with Next Retails for £389.21 they have passed the debt to Cabot who have now instructed FIRE. These people say they will pass the account onto DoorStep Agents to collect the outstanding balance if they aren't contacted immediately.
What should we do? I doubt they will send anyone out and we won't be answering the door to people we don't know. Thankfully the last tenants installed a peep hole thingy, probably for this reason. They have 6 kids neither work and they have done up their new home with payday loans!
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Yeah - dodgy debt collection agency - come across them a few times.
Just keep returning their letters (unopened) maked 'no longer at this address'
If anyone ever turns up (and it's unlikely) just explain that 'Mr X no longer lives here and would you kindly now f**k off!'0 -
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Yeah - dodgy debt collection agency - come across them a few times.
Just keep returning their letters (unopened) maked 'no longer at this address'
If anyone ever turns up (and it's unlikely) just explain that 'Mr X no longer lives here and would you kindly now f**k off!'or put them out with a FIRE extinguisher
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Return letters as not as this address. You will keep getting letters for months.
As to visits, if they do show up, just show a tenancy agreement as proof you are not the person they are after.
Yes, legally you can just shut the door on them, but the idea is to get them to know the guy they want no longer lives here, so get them to stop sending letters.Although no trees were harmed during the creation of this post, a large number of electrons were greatly inconvenienced.
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies0 -
F.I.R.E. are just part of Cabot.
So treat anything from them as if it comes from Cabot.Free/impartial debt advice: National Debtline | StepChange Debt Charity | Find your local CAB
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