Hi guys,

Really feeling a bit as though I'm in over my head and could do with a bit of help from you. Without going into masses of detail straight off the bat, the background is:-

In 2005, I got into difficulty and my bank wrapped up all my credit card debt, overdraft, and loan into a 'managed loan', total of which was circa £10K.

Fast forward to 2011, I was again in trouble, had an accident in August 2010 in which I broke both legs, which was the start of the slippery slope and to cut a long story short, I defaulted on this loan, of which there was £3193.00 outstanding.

Also took a parachute account and left my current account, which was £59.00 O/D.

Various letters received over the years but I've now had one from a notable Solicitors which appear frequently on these pages. Claiming £3252.00 for an overdraft, how convenient.

I sent a letter back requesting that they comply with pre-action protocol and stating that as I have never had an overdraft even approaching that amount, could they provide the detail.

They have responded basically telling me to review my own paperwork etc.

Can you help me please?

First of all you should be telling us which bank/lender this is. Also who are the solicitors?

You should send off an SAR immediately to the bank/lender and hope to get all relevant documentation which they hold on you.

Do this immediately because it will take 40 days.

I suggest that you write the solicitors and confirm that you never had an overdraft and any loan which you might have had would have been in the form of a formal unsecured loan.

Tell them that if they propose to take court action that they will have to supply the information you require in any event and that if they failed to give it to you now then you will draw this to the attention of the court who were at the very least take it into consideration when considering the question of costs.

Tell the solicitors also that in anticipation of their refusal to cooperate you have sent an SAR to the clients in order to get all the relevant documentation which you expect will confirm the position.

Tell the solicitors that in the meantime your enclosing £1 statutory fee and that you require them to provide you with a copy of the CCA within 12 days.

I'm afraid that until you give us more information about the situation, we are really fumbling about. You should certainly tell us the identities of the people you are dealing with – or are you trying to protect them?

Hi Bankfodder,

Firstly, it was HSBC, the DCA is Arrow, and the Solicitors is Restons. Because HSBC wrapped up all my debt into this managed loan, I wasn't allowed to have an overdraft. So the a/c number they are quoting was my old current a/c with no overdraft and was only £59.00 in debit because they added charges when I abandoned it.

What they are quoting in their letters to me is the current a/c number (which is not the loan a/c number) and claiming this loan as an overdraft. I have sent them a letter requesting that they follow pre-action protocol and provide me with the detail, but they've basically thrown it back to me. Can I post their reply here anywhere?

Not protecting them at all, just wary of Restons watching as I've heard they sometimes do.

aha the old HSBC managed loan debacle.

lots of very good threads here already

they merge everything into a loan

then a few months later dump it into an overdraft and sell it on..

you can scan up the letters to pdf

follow the upload Clickme guide

don't be afraid of rectums

we eat them for breakfast here

shame you sent that PAP letter..

Hi dx100uk,

This is why I need help! lol

Rest1.pdf

Rest2.pdf

so you have a claimform?

No, a letter before action sent on two different occasions (which was not titled as such but they acknowledge in their closing paragraph of the above reply to me) and a form for me to jot down my incomings and outgoings.

std rubbish from rectums then.

you need to get an sar off to HSBC pronto

and if you use our search CAG box in the top red toolbar

and get yourself up to speed on HSBC managed loans

we've beaten them several times on these ML debts.

they purposefully use the OD account number to get around the CCA.

which is why the sar will be important to prove how the OD get so high.

what are they claiming £?

shame you sent that PAP letter

you've given them a target now

its always best NOT to enter into ANY pointless letter tennis with any DCA or their fake/tame solicitors

They're claiming £3252.00, of which £3193.00 is the managed loan.

I'm not sure what you mean that I've given them a target now?

Surely, they are guilty of non-compliance with PAP and telling downright lies?

In claiming that the account relates to an OD that I didn't have.

but that's not for you to decide

its for a judge IF they issue a claim.

because you think its wrong

does make their PAP wrong.

99% of letters powerless DCA's and their fake/tame solicitors send out are to gander a resonse

- you fell for it.

no DCA has any legal powers

thy ARE NOT BAILIFFs

they have no more powers than you or I

- that's is if we think someone owes us money we can issue a claimform.

that's ALL they can do...

and ofcourse you've tipped them off upon your probable defence

so they'll now know to obfusecate things accordingly now..

Sar asap hsbc