Read this - Times

[sosumi]

Revealed: how Lloyds ‘puts frighteners’ on debtors

[Huff&Puff]

I'm glad that their nasty, despicable practices are finally being put under the spotlight.

 

And it's always the same old crap from the spokeschimps Unless someone grows some teeth and starts taking their credit licences away it's never going to stop. I'm not going to hold my breath

[mr.ton]

The unfortunate thing for them is..they are coming up against more & more people who are telling them to f off effectivley..so their tactics are not working any more like they used to.

[F_DCAs]

I don't think I hate a single organisation more than I hate Lloyds TSB. It's been a pretty terrible last three months for them and if this is the beginning of the end for them, good!

[Dorabell]

thanks sosumi for the info:) has i have received court papers from sechari clarke and mitchell it goes to show what these people are like:evil:

[Patma]

I'm glad some of the truth is beginning to come out about the banks and the DCAs. This Times article is a good introduction to the truth and hopefully it will come out more and more till their goose is well and truly cooked.

[cymruambyth]

LTSB have been destroying people for years.

It was a result of their actions following a financial review that started our troubles. When problems started soon after they dumped us and started the grief. All this took place before CAG. Since finding CAG I'm fighting back and have had loads of phone calls, lies and abuse of guidlines.

I wish they could be held accountable for abusing their shareholders, the public.

[cerberusalert]

I left Lloyds over thirty years ago because of their business practices and attitude to customers and joined TSB, then the 'Iron Lady' took it upon herself to sell banks which weren't the governments to sell in the first place. Inevitably Lloyds took over TSB & like the 'bad apple' they are, contaminated that bank too until the whole barrel became a rotten mass. Now they are a cancer within the industry as a whole spreading into everything they come into contact with.

 

[F_DCAs]

Theres a few anti-Lloyds clips on youtube already, like the 'I fought the lloyds' and '4000 reasons not to trust lloyds tsb'. They've been on YT for a while now, so I'm a bit surprised it's taken this long to be made apparent to the public.

[F_DCAs]

I bet Anthony Worrall-Thompson's getting a good laugh out of this.

[harrassed senior]

....and there I was contemplating apply for a lloyds Basic Account= thats' out the window now.

 

It is great though that this is all coming out into the open now.

[Undercover-Elsa]

Seems to be across the board though, not just Lloyds. I've had same problem (pretakover) with the Lafi-hax. In fact I'm waiting for my SAR and wonder if they will send tape transcriptions of 2 calls..one saying they couldn't help till I'd missed at least 3 months payments and the other confessing they'd been an irresponsible lender!

I won't hold my breath...

It's great that this is all coming out now. That articles going in my research folder!

Elsa x

[cerberusalert]

I blame it all on all these business qualifications they brought out like NVQs & MBAs in banking, they seem to have created multiple clones of rsoles.

[Undercover-Elsa]

Monetary Bouncers Academy?

[ScarletPimpernel]

Lloyds said last week that it would investigate the findings. Sally Jones-Evans, director of collections and recoveries, said: “We do not condone behaviour that breaks our policies and procedures. Our first action is always to gather the facts, but we take action where these [inquiries] substantiate improper behaviour.”

 

Sally speaks with forked tongue, I note. Firstly, she seems to have forgotten that there's more to what they do than the bank's policies and procedures.

 

There's the conditions of their consumer credit licence, such as compliance with the OFT Guidance on Debt Collection. What about the Banking Code - we know it's voluntary (because that's what the bank's always point out when they get caught breaching it), but failing to comply with a code of practice a company subscribes to is contrary to CPUTR.

 

Secondly, she says they'll 'gather the facts' - which, judging by all the complaints I've ever submitted - is bankspeak for 'we'll pretend to investigate, and just carry on as we always have'.

 

The OFT and FSA really need to get off their backsides.

[cerberusalert]

MBA Core Learning Projects (Master of Business Administration)

Basic Probability and Statistics

Financial Accounting

Managerial Accounting

Corporate Strategy

Microeconomics

Macroeconomics

Decision Models

Corporate Finance

Marketing Strategy

Marketing Implementation

Organizational Behavior and Structure

Leadership

Operations Management

Negotiations

Ethics

Capital Markets

Media Management

Looking at the core subjects in the MBA course above no wonder the industry is like it is, particularly as it's based on an American model & syllabus. Little wonder the industry has got 'attitude' when it's based on the 'American Dream'.

[Toulose LeDebt]

Cue another blub from Ken Maynard about the vicious press campaign against debt collection agencies. Pleased to see that the media have finally realised there's a story in the subject (took them long enough) and looking forward to more. See Mr McKinley is named in the article too.

 

Still firmly of the belief that the wrong strategy was used to bail out the banks. Instead of just handing them huge chunks of cash at the top level this money would have had far greater inpact on the economy if it had been paid in at the bottom.

 

Taxpayers money should have been used to wipe taxpayers liability not subsidise the obscene payment, bonus, greed and waste culture sponsored by the financial institutions.

[ScarletPimpernel]

Government policy towards the financial sector should be quite simple. To misquote Tony Bliar:

 

Regulation, regulation, regulation.

[the_shadow]

Government policy towards the financial sector should be quite simple. To misquote Tony Bliar:

 

Regulation, regulation, regulation.

 

or rather..

enforcement, enforcement, enforcement....

 

Lets not re-invent the wheel.. just utilise the tools that are already there but not enforced sufficiently.

 

S.

 

Edit... just to clarify I mean enforcement as regards banks, I DO believe regulation of DCA's has to take place

[deathbycrayons]

I left a comment on the article

[babybear39]

LTSB, **** and 1st crud (and others, but they were by far the worst) almost drove me to suicide

 

Fortunately I called nationaldebtline and the advisor told me about this site

[landy_alert]

LTSB, **** and 1st crud (and others, but they were by far the worst) almost drove me to suicide

 

Fortunately I called nationaldebtline and the advisor told me about this site

 

My OH took an overdose of painkillers and almost died as a result of the tactics of Lloyds, MBNA, Swift et al

 

When I had a conversation on the phone with a lady from Lloyds soon after he had recovered and gave her a piece of my mind she was very rude and unsympathetic - bet that transcript won't show up in our SARs:eek:

 

Hopefully now this is all coming out in the open these **** won't be able to prey on the vulnerable for much longer, although I severely doubt it!

 

Landy x

[F_DCAs]

They're very selective about comments on the Times forum, aren't they? I see 'Mike from Reigate' has had his two pence on there - wonder who he works for?

[itsamomentintime]

 

Fortunately I called nationaldebtline and the advisor told me about this site

 

 

buy that person a drink!

[JonCris]

Revealed: how Lloyds ‘puts frighteners’ on debtors

 

 

This should be posted on all Lloyds threads or even put in the header as breaking news