Can you change your name to escape debt?

[overdone]

Subbing, to a very interesting thread!

IMHO, why can't you just change your name by deed poll, then apply for a passport in your new name, showing them the deed poll certificate, then open a bank account with your new passport as ID:confused:

 

You then move property, in your new name?

 

Or is that too easy, or am I missing a point?:confused:8-)8-)

The bank will want to know your previous addresses and some ask if you have been known by any other name and they check you on credit files for ID purposes.

However a prepaid mastercard firm that will even accept your wages and benefits, do not do all this. A lot less bothered.

[going_mad]

just wanted to add my friend goes by the alias of sue perb her oh got her a nectar card with that name on it then the clubcard then the boots card and lo and behold when the phone got cut off they got the cabel on in the name of sue perb roll on two years and sue perb has been paying a utility bill for two years now a laugh at the time but realistically if they wanted to what else could they do if they wanted to

[dx100uk]

well i moved here in 1994 and the previous occ had a bank a/c opened in the name of brian hind.

we still to this day get a yearly savings report addressed to mr b.hind.

 

dx

[Bazooka Boo]

well i moved here in 1994 and the previous occ had a bank a/c opened in the name of brian hind.

we still to this day get a yearly savings report addressed to mr b.hind.

dx

 

Now that made me chuckle!

[UnmoderatetheNet]

How can that be true? I live alone and I get a single person's discount on my council tax bill.

 

If you live alone and add another name, made up or otherwise you lose the single persons allowance.

[UnmoderatetheNet]

I think this thread has run it's course.

 

Although it is tongue in cheek some of the content is bordering on a DIY in new identity and obtaining money by deception.

 

The bottom line is changing your name to avoid debt or obtain a credit is very possible but illegal and the methods of such are out there on other forums.

 

This site is too useful to be closed for content like this.

[JonCris]

I agree with unmoderated not only that obtaining credit by deception is illegal & would NEVER EVER be advocated by CAG but also that to suggest such on a public forum is wrong & puts that forum at risk when misunderstood by those coming in half-way through what is meant only to be tongue in cheek performance

Edited June 4, 2009 by JonCris

[42man]

If you change your name then potentially a debt will NEVER become statute barred either.....

[Rooster-UK]

I agree with unmoderated not only that obtaining credit by deception is illegal & would NEVER EVER be advocated by CAG but also that to suggest such on a public forum is wrong & puts that forum at risk when misunderstood by those coming in half-way through what is meant only to be tongue in cheek performance

 

As JonCris says, above, CAG use the law not break the law.

CAG does not and will not condone breaking the law and will not be associated with it.

 

With that, I am closing the thread.

 

Rooster-UK.