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Genuine Posts?

i've been around for awhile and started posting a few weeks ago. Is it me or are some of the posts getting strange eg how do I get the address from a mobile phone number and bad reports about payplan and how do I get to the free bingo? these people never come back after the first post. They seem to stick out as being different to the norm or am I getting too paranoid in my old age:rotfl:
June 2005 = 48K of Debt:cry:
Sept 2006 Started dmp = 56k of Debt (inc fees and charges) DFD April 2030:eek:
May 2008 = <5k of Debt (CCA route -48K, paid off 3K) DFD April 2010
Nov 2008 Lloyds found CCA for 14K loan:mad: New DFD Jan 2016

Happy so far tomorrows another day:confused:

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  • Cleosmum
    Cleosmum Posts: 2,673 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I found the free bingo really easily, used the search function :)

    I suppose I havent been about long enough to notice whether people come back, I have enough trouble keeping up with all the pages of posts just in DFW.
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Rampant Recycler
    This is a very public, and as far as these things go, high profile forum.

    Means that you get all sorts of other "agendas" mixed in with the genuine.

    Posts that are little more than advertising for fee charging debt management companies seem to be a fairly popular theme at times. They normally get about ten posts straight afterwards by the regulars saying: "NO!!! Go to CCCS or payplan". :D
    Free/impartial debt advice: National Debtline | StepChange Debt Charity | Find your local CAB

    IVA & fee charging DMP companies: Profits from misery, motivated ONLY by greed
  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    yes, the free bingo ones are almost certainly genuine - it has been one of those things that has made a lot of us some extra money in the last few weeks so has generated a fair bit of interest.

    People ask about phone numbers when they are panicking. They would be able to google them but their first thought is to come here instead. I would expect that they are genuine too.

    The ones that are NOT genuine, are those trying to get you to take out a payment plan with them or those that claim they can solve your debt problems in an instant/earn a million in a day/buy nike shoes for £1 etc - these are the ones that should be avoided and reported as spam.
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
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