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Want to find out amounts owed, don't want details passing on

Hi,

Around five years ago I stupidly took out multiple credit cards and maxed them out while travelling. Rather than face up to paying them all back at the time I moved residence and didn't tell them my new address details.

I now want to pay what I owe and get back on track with my finances (currently with SecureTrustBank, as they didn't require a credit check to open an account).

I'd like to find out how much I owe (should be less than 10k) and to which debt companies. The bind is that I want to do this without alerting them of my new address / details so that I can pay them off one at a time and plan first.

Although I've looked at various credit check/report sites I get the feeling that they add your current details (which I have to enter to use them) to your credit file; which I'm guessing would then mean I'll be wading through red scary letters at my door quite soon after!

Any advice would be very appreciated!

Many thanks

Comments

  • If you want to face this debt, then you may as well get the credit report done and get the ball rolling - you're going to have to face the mail sooner or later.

    Get all of the details and put together a SOA and if you want, post it to this site and get some advice.

    Congratulations on the first step though. :)
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