Warning and advice about LCS Utility Investigation Civil Enforcement Debt Recoveries

sourcrates

That’s something I’ve not seen before.

Galloglass

Obligations related to the consumer contract are governed by Slovak law. 

Deemed contracts in the UK will run on the laws of England and Wales (assuming the address was in E & W)

the limitation period shall be three years

Limitation is 6 years for E & W contracts. 

If you are living in Slovakia you may not have a problem (too difficult to collect) But if you are in the UK, they may take action such as sending a claim. 

kubo5300

I was in uk 4 years ago,  but now i living in slovakia.
They have just my name and email adress.  

fatbelly

kubo5300 said:

I was in uk 4 years ago,  but now i living in slovakia.
They have just my name and email adress.  

I'm 99.9% certain they will give up on  this.
It just wouldn't be worth the time and effort to pursue this.

BadDebtor

kubo5300 said:

I was in uk 4 years ago,  but now i living in slovakia.
They have just my name and email adress.  

I had a similar situation with an energy company, I was overcharged due to a faulty meter, it started one winter where in a small flat the energy bill was £680, I blamed myself until it became apparent that the issue was with the meter because I turned everything off and still got bills that exceeded £2500. 

I had a long fight with them, I managed to get hold of all the previous energy readings for everybody who had lived there, finally they sent an engineer who diagnosed it as faulty within 2 minutes.

I then had a battle for several years to work out what I should have been charged, every time I was about to refer to the ombudsman they would say my account was being handled by a new rep and they would start the whole process over again trying to wear me down.

In the end I moved and I figured it was easier to stop arguing and let the alleged debt expire under the limitations act, they would have owed me about another £1500 but some companies make it too difficult to argue.

If you contact them to discuss the debt you acknowledge the debt and the 6 limit on limitations act is reset, so DO NOT ENGAGE.

My understanding is that a prove it type letter that your lawyer sent does not count as an acknowledgement as it is a sort of "prove it" letter.
The best thing you can do with the LCS scum is ignore them, the debt will expire and even if they tried for a CCJ it will also expire in time. You are no longer in the UK and so why would you care, it is only because you have tried to be decent that you have worried about this.  Well these scum are not decent, you have to treat them like the scum they are.

BadDebtor

sourcrates said:

That’s something I’ve not seen before.

I was living in an EU country for several years, one time I drove my EU car back to UK when a family member was taken very ill, apparently I parked badly out of bay (car too long for bay) and I had a congestion charge penalty.

Well they came after me in Eastern Europe, all looked quite scary quoting EU Directive blah, I thought I ought to pay it because it had already been hiked to over £1000. 

My car was on a foreign plate, if I had be on a UK plate I would have had a fixed penalty of around £60 at the time and I would have been able to appeal them etc.  

They never sent any standard demands, just the two threats which totalled at over £1000.

I asked a local and he told me to shred it, I did that and got no further follow up.  It seems to me that they send these letters to foreign nationals on the off chance that some will just pay.  

kubo5300

Today they sent me another email,  they want following information:

"Your full name:
The address in question including postcode:
Your relation to the address:
Your current address including postcode:
Your date of birth:
Your most up to date contact number:
Once the above information has been checked and verified, we will make further contact with you
directly."

So,  Best is ignore them? Or give them wrong telephone number

fatbelly

Considering your last email ended
'Therefore, I consider the case to be closed and I ask you not to contact me again.'
I think I would ignore them.

BadDebtor

kubo5300 said:

Today they sent me another email,  they want following information:

"Your full name:
The address in question including postcode:
Your relation to the address:
Your current address including postcode:
Your date of birth:
Your most up to date contact number:
Once the above information has been checked and verified, we will make further contact with you
directly."

So,  Best is ignore them? Or give them wrong telephone number

DO NOT ENGAGE, no contact whatsoever.

LDun82

Hi everyone I’ve just joined MSE today having had a letter in the post today from a company I’ve literally never heard of and even Googling it didn’t help that much - LCS. I’ve made no contact and frankly have no plan to just hand over these details requested - have been reading through some lists and have most people just ignored these? Should I be concerned?