DCA Declares me dead!

[straftat]

I have just had a letter from a DCAs lawyers addressed to the "Executor of the estate of the late Mr.XXXXX (me)"

 

"we have informed by (DCA) that they have received information that Mr.X has sadly passed away"

 

its a letter/glossy leaflet entitled "understanding the probate process"

 

 

1) Firstly im not dead nor could the possibly have any info that says i am

 

2) I have been in contact with the unnamed DCA clowns over this debt on several occasions and am still at the same address

 

3) They took me to court over this debt 4 years ago and didnt even bother to file proper directions so it was struck out

 

4) Its long since statute barred

 

 

its not the nicest thing to read about your own death !

[coledog]

Report this to OFT and Consumer Direct. Also the SRA as it is from a solicitor Have you actually sent an SB letter? If so, they should not be contacting you at all even if you are dead!! Unbelievable!

[MARTIN3030]

Not the first time this has been reported here.

This is a matter you should be reporting as advised.

[natalie]

Hmmm that could be taken as a threat, if I wrote a letter to someone I didnt like along those lines it would be looked at very seriously by the police.

[citizenB]

Who are the DCA/Solicitor who have written to you ?

[count orlok]

A bit like when the "mob" sends you a wreath?

[coledog]

You have a right to be worried and distressed by this, what if you were in ill health or had a dickey ticker? You could have had a heart attack. I think that you should name and shame these bamps.

[rebel11]

It could be a low life fishing trip so you contact them, you can't trust DCA's.

[Fred Bassett]

I would write to them and put it, as Mark Twain did, that "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated".

 

Regards.

 

Fred

[sillygirl1]

and add 'a report is going to the folowing authorities....

 

OFT

Trading Standards

Ministry of Justice (who might be very interested in the misuse of probate information)

Solicitors Regulatory Authority

Local MP

Local Newspapers (the Times might like this, as will the Daily Mail - try Tony Heatherington)

[ScarletPimpernel]

I wonder if, left unchecked, the next missive would be a demand for payment of this SB debt against the estate?

 

Anyone care to make a small wager that the reptiles involved will all cry 'system error'?

[ScarletPimpernel]

Sink me, the muse is upon me:

 

 

 

Dear Solicitors

 

Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am not dead, though you may think

I am worth your waste of ink.

I am alive and writing letters

To the SRA, your legal betters,

To let them know that fools like you

Harass men like me, and kill

With stroke of pen, not knife or pill

Now listen close and lo!

I will tell what you should know

The debt that's statute-barred is dead

Not me;

And by your cursed tricks I'm not misled.

Now go! straight to the fires of Hell

Where Satan greets all lawyers well:

"No charges lads, entry's free

For you - professional courtesy!"

Do not stand at my grave bereft

I am not there. I have not left.

 

Yours sincerely

Straftat (deceased)

 

 

 

With apologies to Mary Frye.

 

 

.. and Straftat, please name and shame the creatures involved.

[straftat]

Phillips & Cohen on behalf of 1st Credit

 

 

Great poem , my death has brought out my creative side

[watchinginvestigation2011]

great poem xx

[PGH7447]

subbing, hopefully with cases like this we will soon be reading the obituary of this complete fool company, and their minions

[ScarletPimpernel]

Ah yes, Phillips and Cohen. They've appeared here before, usually for trying to convince family members that they are responsible for a dead person's debt. Wretched creatures.

[PGH7447]

So a nice report to the SRA would not go amiss, maybe then the SRA will start to regulate its members

[coledog]

And Ist Crud are under an official warning from OFT so you must complain to them. If you have not sent the SB letter, I would do this and add that reports of your demise are greatly exaggerated

[NewYorkStateGirl]

Since you are now dead(and commiserations on your unexpected demise) I want first dibs on the contents of your will!

[The Carpet Cleaners]

I am afraid you can't...........................

 

Phillips & Cohen on behalf of 1st credit appear to have beaten you...

[babybear39]

Oh, dear 1st crud do seem to be dropping a lot of clangers lately but this has to be the most humorous

[citizenB]

Sink me, the muse is upon me:

 

 

 

Dear Solicitors

 

Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am not dead, though you may think

I am worth your waste of ink.

I am alive and writing letters

To the SRA, your legal betters,

To let them know that fools like you

Harass men like me, and kill

With stroke of pen, not knife or pill

Now listen close and lo!

I will tell what you should know

The debt that's statute-barred is dead

Not me;

And by your cursed tricks I'm not misled.

Now go! straight to the fires of Hell

Where Satan greets all lawyers well:

"No charges lads, entry's free

For you - professional courtesy!"

Do not stand at my grave bereft

I am not there. I have not left.

 

Yours sincerely

Straftat (deceased)

 

 

 

With apologies to Mary Frye.

 

 

.. and Straftat, please name and shame the creatures involved.

 

Nice one:)

[sillygirl1]

Excellent poem, have you had any reasonable reply from them?

[straftat]

I will write to them this week as I'm now a ready made "Ghost" Writer

[PGH7447]

put the return address as

 

Plot 666

Highgate cemetery

London

 

I Apologise to any resident of this plot if it exists