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Letter from MK Rapid recoveries

Bagpuss102002 · 2014-05-02 16:31:55

Back in august 2008 I took out a unsecured loan with HSBC. I was only a teenager at the time and they offered me £11,000 and stupidly enough i took the money, I managed to repay £5,600 before I could no longer afford the repayments. I have not heard anything about this debt until today when I recieved a letter from MK Dent…

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FireWyrm Posts: 6,557 Forumite

5 May 2014 at 8:44AM

tomtontom wrote: »

In which case contact them and offer to pay what you can - far better to make an arrangement to pay over time than to ignore.

Morally speaking perhaps, but actually, this debt will be statute barred shortly. Remaining silent is the better option, since the debt collector is merely fishing at the moment.

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