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« Reply #4410 on: 15:31:00, 17-01-2008 » |
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I can't help on hats. That is another and mysterious world which men enter at their peril.
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« Reply #4411 on: 18:34:27, 17-01-2008 » |
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I can't help on hats. That is another and mysterious world which men enter at their peril.
Ahem!Gosh! My apologies to all men, dead or undead, who wear plaid. And very stylish it is too if I may say so. I should have made clearer that the mysterious world which I was suggesting men enter only at their peril is that of advising ladies on which hats they, the latter, should or should not wear at weddings. Even the most carefully planned and tim'rous wee comments oft gang awry. |
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« Reply #4412 on: 18:38:38, 17-01-2008 » |
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My smileys aren't working at the moment -
<biggrin> I'd stop digging if I were you George - in too deep already! <double-big-grin>
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« Reply #4413 on: 18:52:02, 17-01-2008 » |
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It's alright George, you could have just said 'a world which straight men enter at their peril' and I wouldn't have batted an eyelid!  |
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« Reply #4414 on: 19:18:37, 17-01-2008 » |
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Curses, rats, damnation and bloody, bloody hell !! I received a letter today from a Debt Collection agency informing me that I owed a ridiculous amount of my Barclaycard and would I please contact them to hand over the loot. Only one problem. It jolly well isn`t my Barclaycard! When I realised that the card had been applied for from my old address, my heart sank. That was where I was living when my identity got nicked. I thought I had managed to sort out that whole sorry mess and get the bogus information removed from my credit rating. I contacted the company and explained the situation. Now I have to contact the police station in the hope of getting the crime number that was given to me when I reported it ruddy y-e-a-r-s ago. I have a horrible feeling this is not going to be straightforward  Bloody hell and goddamn!! |
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« Reply #4415 on: 19:35:18, 17-01-2008 » |
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Oh, Mort, that is bluddy, bluddy, bluddy architrave-gnawingly awful. What an absolute utter pain. I am so sorry.
Here's just hoping that, against all the odds, the system does somehow work and it gets resolved fairly quickly with a magic reference number. This one demands a collective wall of healing chakra to head North London way from the R3OK community to get it sorted.
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« Reply #4416 on: 20:03:12, 17-01-2008 » |
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This one demands a collective wall of healing chakra to head North London way from the R3OK community to get it sorted.
Doing my bit now, George. Nnnnnnngh. Nnnnnnnngh. |
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« Reply #4417 on: 20:15:50, 17-01-2008 » |
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Gosh, thanks chaps! The earth just moved in North London !  |
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« Reply #4418 on: 21:28:42, 17-01-2008 » |
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This one demands a collective wall of healing chakra to head North London way from the R3OK community to get it sorted.
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« Reply #4419 on: 21:43:45, 17-01-2008 » |
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Sorry Mort, I'm not quite following this. I know you got your identity nicked some years ago but then the card would have been cancelled and you had a new one  so how can someone pretend to be you? <more confused emoticoms> Because, date of birth and other details - how would they know? And surely Barclaycard check things out?? |
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« Reply #4420 on: 21:57:12, 17-01-2008 » |
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Mary,
I'm sorry you are feeling low....surely going out and aquiring a beautiful new hat would lift your spirits a tad??
GO FOR IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #4421 on: 22:07:05, 17-01-2008 » |
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In my experience, not necessarily Ants. An account was opened with the bank I was with at the time - my name, micky mouse date of birth etc. The bank happily opened an account. No checks. When I pointed out to the bank what had happened they couldn`t have been less interested, even though the account had been run up to hilt of the overdraft. The police told me that banks rarely take the matter any further. My Barcalycard wasn`t stolen. Obviously another one was applied for in my name and greedy old Barstewardcard were only happy to oblige. The person who did this racked up thousands in my name with assorted bank accounts and credit cards. It can happen, Ants  |
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« Reply #4422 on: 22:16:58, 17-01-2008 » |
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Crikey Mort, am I an Innocent Abroad here!!! I thought Banks checked signatures and secret answers <doh> But, if this person did it because they had received mail at your old address, how did the debt collectors find you at your new address? |
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« Reply #4423 on: 22:29:30, 17-01-2008 » |
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I imagine they have their ways and means, Ants. At the very least they could probably track someone by checking if they had requested a new `phone line at the new address. Or something like that.
Is there a Sherlock Holmes in the house?
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« Reply #4424 on: 22:43:32, 17-01-2008 » |
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Mort, when I applied for a Lloyds TSB card (interest free for 6 months) they phoned work and enquired at Reception, "Do you have a Ms. Fifi la Belle working for you?" Then grilled me for about 15 minutes!
And when I had that little bit of fraud with Barclays (you know, I told you, the sleaze incident in the Waste Midlands) I won't go into again otherwise Martle will make remarks, well, it was "Here you go, new card, new number, new security code"
How very worrying.
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