Letter received from DCBL

Heartonthewall

Hi everyone, after looking through the forums I can't seem to find the information I need, so..yesterday I received a letter from a company called DCBL saying that I have failed to pay £160 to DCBL. After looking through the website provided on the letter the contact numbers do not match to the corresponding link.
What the letter says:-

You have failed to pay DCBL (Direct collections bailiffs limited) the outstanding balance of £160 or make contact to discuss the repayment of this debt. We have more recommended to our client the commencement of legal action against you. However the granting of judgements and other orders are At the discretion of the courts. Should legal proceedings commence the cost would be added to the debt of recovery. After further applications Have been granted by the court the possible impacts Of having a CCJ registered against you would be:-
1. Enables enforcement action to commence, such as obtaining an attachment of earings placing a charge on your property or applying for a warrant of control to remove goods.
2. Prevent future lending.

Then the letter goes on about to prevent further actions please pay to our 24 hour hotline number.. 01302 897022 or paying by via cheque in the post etc.

I'm confused because the letter doesn't actually say what the £160 will be paying off and also the numbers don't match the website.

Thanks! Hoping someone could help!

Johno100

Heartonthewall wrote: »

Hi everyone, after looking through the forums I can't seem to find the information I need, so..yesterday I received a letter from a company called DCBL saying that I have failed to pay £160 to DCBL. After looking through the website provided on the letter the contact numbers do not match to the corresponding link.
What the letter says:-

You have failed to pay DCBL (Direct collections bailiffs limited) the outstanding balance of £160 or make contact to discuss the repayment of this debt. We have more recommended to our client the commencement of legal action against you. However the granting of judgements and other orders are At the discretion of the courts. Should legal proceedings commence the cost would be added to the debt of recovery. After further applications Have been granted by the court the possible impacts Of having a CCJ registered against you would be:-
1. Enables enforcement action to commence, such as obtaining an attachment of earings placing a charge on your property or applying for a warrant of control to remove goods.
2. Prevent future lending.

Then the letter goes on about to prevent further actions please pay to our 24 hour hotline number.. 01302 897022 or paying by via cheque in the post etc.

I'm confused because the letter doesn't actually say what the £160 will be paying off and also the numbers don't match the website.

Thanks! Hoping someone could help!

Given you've posted on the parking sub-board you must have reason to believe this relates to an alleged parking infringement.

DCBL are simply acting as debt collectors. If you've read the Newbie sticky thread at the top of this board you'll be aware it is recommended you ignore debt collectors.

Heartonthewall

I do believe that this has something to do with a parking enforcement letter that I received on 28/9/16 from premier park. I'm just concerned by the recent letter I received that it doesn't say what the £160 will pay and aslo the fact the numbers provided on the letter don't match with the numbers on the website provided. Am I best to ignore it like you said? Thanks.

Le_Kirk

You can safely ignore debt collectors' letters but do not ignore the original PCN, nor LOC/LBC/LBA or real court papers. If you are not out of time, you should appeal the original PCN or parking enforcement letter as you refer to it. Go to the NEWBIE sticky and read up about what to do, depending upon where in the process you are; original PCN, post # 1, LBC etc, post # 2, POPLA post # 3, debt collectors post # 4, acronyms explained post # 5.

beamerguy

Heartonthewall wrote: »

I do believe that this has something to do with a parking enforcement letter that I received on 28/9/16 from premier park. I'm just concerned by the recent letter I received that it doesn't say what the £160 will pay and aslo the fact the numbers provided on the letter don't match with the numbers on the website provided. Am I best to ignore it like you said? Thanks.

If as you say, this was back in 2016 that you received a parking ticket, there is no longer an appeal open to you.

Sounds like Premier are digging up old tickets and passed it to DCBL to harass/scare you

On the back of the letter you should see something like "this is not a bailiffs letter" ?

This will be a bog standard letter and DCBL has no chance in collecting monies because in the parking scam they are powerless.
PLUS .... you do not owe £160, DCBL has added a fake scam charge of £60

Why DCBL ??? You have probably watched the soap on TV called "can't pay we'll take it away"
These are DCBL bailiffs in action and they are only take the action because a case went to court, the person did not pay as instructed by the court and the company then instructed hIgh court bailiffs to enforce ...... Enter DCBL

By the time it gets to this stage, interest and charges are added so they would not be taking action for £160 (including the fake £60)

I think those on here will agree that this is a scary scary letter to try and scam money from you.

If Premier want to take this further, it will not be via DCBL who are totally powerless like all the other stupid debt collectors we see on here.

If you get a Letter Before Claim from Premier or one of the very dodgy legals they use, come back here, it's when the fun starts

The_Deep

DCBL are debt collectors pure and simple. You do not owe a debt unless a judge says that you do. The stickies/FAQs, (please read them) tell you to ignore DCAs.