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Should I stop the SO?
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CatherineColling45
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I have been paying £10 a month to what I thought was HSBC for a very old loan. I had run into financial difficulty in 2014 and this is what was agreed I would pay at the time. I have actually now been paying this since then up to now. I have had no letters from them, and I totally forgot all about it, until now when I have decided I am going to actually sort out my finances.
I just rang HSBC to try and get an outstanding balance on this debt, but they say they have no record of it - and actually that money is being paid to a company called MCS ltd - that I have never heard of? I don't know what to do from here. Has anyone heard of this MCS ltd as I can't find any record of them. And do I just cancel the standing order? I don't want to end up defaulting on this debt after all this time, but I also don't want to be paying this if there is no record of where it's going.
Any advice would be very helpful.
I just rang HSBC to try and get an outstanding balance on this debt, but they say they have no record of it - and actually that money is being paid to a company called MCS ltd - that I have never heard of? I don't know what to do from here. Has anyone heard of this MCS ltd as I can't find any record of them. And do I just cancel the standing order? I don't want to end up defaulting on this debt after all this time, but I also don't want to be paying this if there is no record of where it's going.
Any advice would be very helpful.
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Why don't you want it to default?If you go down to the woods today you better not go alone.0
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No not them - just spoke to them on the phone. They did say to cancel the SO and see what happens.....Clive_Woody said:1 -
a search on another consumer website shows Mcs td were the fake in-house debt collection company owned HSBC which got disbanded years ago.
according to the forum the money is still going to HSBC off balanceChristians Against Poverty solved my debt problem, when all other debt charities failed. Give them a call !! ( You don't have to be a Christian ! )
https://capuk.org/contact-us1 -
The money is still going to HSBC? It doesn't make sense as to why they are saying they have no record of it. I suppose if I cancel the SO then someone is bound to write to me..........I just don't want it ending up on my credit file when I am trying to improve my score.stu12345_2 said:a search on another consumer website shows Mcs td were the fake in-house debt collection company owned HSBC which got disbanded years ago.
according to the forum the money is still going to them0 -
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request statements and a historic paper trail of your account and transactions
.I believe the money is still going to HSBC.
Christians Against Poverty solved my debt problem, when all other debt charities failed. Give them a call !! ( You don't have to be a Christian ! )
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In the days when firms used to use false names to threaten people into paying (a practice that was stamped out when the FCA came into being) HSBC used to pretend to be Metropolitan Collection Services.
I agree - cancel the SO and see what crawls out of the woodwork
Nothing will appear on your credit file as the default is more than 6 years ago2 -
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Yes I remember MCS being HSBC in disguise, the debt defaulted many years ago, nothing you do now will resurrect any credit file activity, stopping the payment will trigger whoever you have been paying to write to you.
Upon receipt of that letter, I`d say this was a possible candidate for a CCA request given the age of the account.
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