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    • god they've got at you haven't they. told you all the usual utter BS. a CCJ vanishes from your credit file on it's 6th B'Day regardless to being paid off or not or paying or not. same with any debt with a registered defaulted date - it vanishes from your file on the DN's 6th B'day regardless. creditfix are Knightsbridge, (they renamed) there are 100's of threads here on Knightsbridge, if i remember rightly 2 of the directors of a certain very big IVA provider were struck off for embezzling £1m's out of debtors. pers i'd stop paying now.  end of . just ignore them all. 99% of your debts are to utterly powerless DCA's and probably were never owed in the first place only goes to firm up my belief from post one..you got had blind. its very easy to deal with the debts even those with CCJ's. can you copy and paste what you credit file says regarding the IVA please?   
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    • Sorry I meant credit fix - I really wish I'd known this before - kicking myself right now  If they come back to me asking for more money I'll cancel it and start trying to deal with the debt myself let's see what they say  Feeling tempted to cancel it now but scared that some of the debts will do more CCJ's on me and I'll have to wait 6 years again.  2 of the CCJ come of this year and then I'll only have the iva in credit file - effectively if I'd have not took out the iva in 2021 I'd have clear score by now - but then again would I because I would have been hounded the last 3 years, as bad as it is it's saves me lots of headaches whilst my debt was still within the 6 year mark.  I think most of them are near there but in all honesty no point chasing them if I do cancel iva I'd jjst wait for the ones who contact me and then start the relevant letter process on them.  Of over 6 years easy if not still possible to write off. My true victory would be having the iva wiped off my credit file as mis sold or something that way I Don't have to wait till 2027 Other option is to fight back and ask for them to offer the creditors to accept payments so far and use the following method    Will your IVA firm agree to complete your IVA on the basic of funds paid to date? The Guidance lists a lot of factors to be considered in deciding whether a settlement on the basis of funds paid to date should be proposed. You should read the list. But that may not give you any feel for whether they apply to you or not. The following are my thoughts on when an IVA should be treated as settled, not failed. They assume that you have £75 or less to pay a month: if you would currently qualify for a Debt Relief Order, then your IVA should be settled now  There is no point in making your IVA fail and you have to apply for a DRO – it will not generate another penny for your creditors. If you are renting and owe less than £50,000, check the DRO criteria now and talk to National Debtline on 0808 808 4000 about whether you qualify. You may have been told at the start of your IVA that you aren’t eligible – still check now as the DRO criteria have changed, your situation has got worse, and some people were given incorrect information about DROs at the start. if you have no assets that would be realised in bankruptcy (eg a house with equity, car worth over £2000), then your IVA should be settled now Same as (1), there is no point in making you apply for bankruptcy after your IVA fails. if your only asset is a car that is worth less than £8000, then your IVA should be settled now A car that is worth say £5000 would normally be sold in bankruptcy and you would be given a small amount to buy a cheaper car. But your creditors would not get any benefit from this as the Insolvency Service takes the first £8000 raised to cover its own costs. if you have significant assets, the closer you are to the end of the IVA, the less reasonable it is to fail it If you have been paying your IVA for 4 years, you have done your best over a long period. It isn’t your fault you can no longer continue. The fact you may have had equity to release isn’t relevant as that simply isn’t going to be possible. if your situation will clearly improve soon, then it’s unlikely your IVA will be settled I mean real improvements, not hoping that prices fall. If I can get them to accept payment to date or threaten with cancellation hopefully they may accept it -  Other option is to try and borrow money and pay make a full and final offer  Or I can just ignore and hope for the best which I'm very tempted to do especially if they respond to my review with bullying tactics despite me being skint as a fart with no mortgage as renting  It's so stressful but I've just checked the iva agreement from 2021 and it's Cabot 2 accounts Lowell about 5 accounts and then lots of repeats of the same debt with for example zopa and Cabot same amount listed twice -  also loyyds banks but I'm sure that's older than 6 years and not on credit file anyway  If I can somehow remove the iva from my credit file I'd be happy 
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Hi All,

just received my first letter from CWD regarding Dubai debt.

 

 

Can't afford to pay for now.

I don't have any assets, not even a car.

 

 

Been paying the card for 3 yrs but currently I have no money and can't pay.

It will just balloon from now on and will never be finished.

 

In the letter it states they can pursue:

i.) debt recovery proceedings to be issued in your local court or

ii.) pursue a petition for your sequestration.

 

Can you advise what I should do.

Any solicitors in the UK that are experienced in this?

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Hi All, just received my first letter from CWD regarding Dubai debt. Can't afford to pay for now. I don't have any assets, not even a car. Been paying the card for 3 yrs but currently I have no money and can't pay. It will just balloon from now on and will never be finished.

 

In the letter it states they can pursue: i.) debt recovery proceedings to be issued in your local court or ii.) pursue a petition for your sequestration.

 

Can you advise what I should do. Any solicitors in the UK that are experienced in this?

 

CWD have issued UK court proceeding for some UAE Banks, so it is possible. If you have no assets and little or no money to pay the UAE Bank, you might as well write to CWD advising them of your financial position and they will see that it is not worth pursuing you. Neither CWD or the UAE Bank are going to want to incur any court or other fees, which they would not get back.

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Hi uncle. Thanks for the response.

Where is your source regarding them being able to issue UK court proceedings?

 

I really don't have any assets and barely surviving every month, but will they believe me?

 

I can show them my monthly bank statement.

It is their first letter and I intend to respond to them.

 

I am guessing their next letter to me will be a SD?

By then I will probably get a solicitor (if I can afford it),

can you recommend any?

 

Thank you...

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Hi uncle. Thanks for the response. Where is your source regarding them being able to issue UK court proceedings? I really don't have any assets and barely surviving every month, but will they believe me? I can show them my monthly bank statement. It is their first letter and I intend to respond to them. I am guessing their next letter to me will be a SD? By then I will probably get a solicitor (if I can afford it), can you recommend any?

 

Thank you...

 

It has been reported here and elsewhere that CWD have obtained UK court judgements. The UAE Bank terms, generally seem to allow enforcement of the debt outside of UAE in any country that allows it. UK courts will deal with foreign debts, due to case precedent that was set in about 1971.

 

UAE Banks have also obtained UK Bankruptcies which is evidenced by cases showing in the London Gazette.

 

To make you Bankrupt would cost them i believe about £3k. The fees were recently changed for creditor applications. If you have no assets or money, i can't see them bothering.

 

Write to CWD explaining your position.

Ask them to obtain full statements of account and a copy of the account terms and conditions written in English.

 

Other people have searched for UK Solicitors that deal with UAE debts

and there are very few who seem to deal with foreign debts.

 

 

If you search there is one lady Solicitor in London that deals with UAE debts

and she only seems to negotiate a reduced settlement.

I don't think you need a Solicitors.

 

 

CWD generally seem to lose interest, once they know a debtor has no money or assets.

Even if you ended up with a UK court judgement

, you would ask to pay small affordable instalments.

We could do with some help from you.

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Thank you unclebulgaria. The debt is about GBP 2.5k. Maybe it has gone up slightly since the pound has plummeted against AED. Indeed I have had a look around and there seems to be no solicitors that know how to deal with this. So thanks again for your help.

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CWD are a bunch of fleecers

don't believe everything you read around the net

 

if they've bought the debt

then tough on them.

 

IMHO if you are going to write to anyone

then its the original creditor in UAE

 

there are lots of little holes appearing

 

read the comments in the this article from this 2014 thread

turns out they are simply a DCA

 

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?431524-any-new-updates-on-COYLEWHITEDEVINE-and-UAE-debt

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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CWD are a bunch of fleecers

don't believe everything you read around the net

 

if they've bought the debt

then tough on them.

 

IMHO if you are going to write to anyone

then its the original creditor in UAE

 

there are lots of little holes appearing

 

read the comments in the this article from this 2014 thread

turns out they are simply a DCA

 

 

Yes, the article is so biased towards the UAE, but the comments are spot on!

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please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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So just an update. I wrote back to CWD over a month ago and requested for statements etc. and told them that I have no assets. Till now I haven't received anything.

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So just an update. I wrote back to CWD over a month ago and requested for statements etc. and told them that I have no assets. Till now I haven't received anything.

 

Think that is par for the course. They go back to the Dubai Bank asking for the info and to see whether they want to pursue if there are no assets. I think in other cases, it has been months before any reply is received.

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Think that is par for the course. They go back to the Dubai Bank asking for the info and to see whether they want to pursue if there are no assets. I think in other cases, it has been months before any reply is received.

 

Hi uncle. OK thanks for that. I will come back once I hear anything from them.

In terms of assets, how will they actually know that? By looking at the person's credit file?

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Hi uncle. OK thanks for that. I will come back once I hear anything from them.

In terms of assets, how will they actually know that? By looking at the person's credit file?

 

Credit file for mortgage being paid.

 

Land registry showing property in her name

We could do with some help from you.

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Just want to update everyone. After almost 1 yr I still haven't heard from CWD.

 

I think they realised it is not worth chasing me as they know they won't get anything from me.

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as is this way with all these debts

I just wish people would stop giving in and feeding them dog buscuits

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Just want to update everyone. After almost 1 yr I still haven't heard from CWD.

 

I think they realised it is not worth chasing me as they know they won't get anything from me.

 

Just remember that if you ever fly long haul say to Australia or New Zealand don't go via an Islamic country. If you enter an Islamic country where the Dubai Bank may have registered interest in the debt on immigration lists, you might get detained until repayment is arranged. It is not worth the risk, if there are other travel options.

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Just remember that if you ever fly long haul say to Australia or New Zealand don't go via an Islamic country. If you enter an Islamic country where the Dubai Bank may have registered interest in the debt on immigration lists, you might get detained until repayment is arranged. It is not worth the risk, if there are other travel options.

 

Hi uncle. Thanks for the reminder again. We have travelled in europe and far east asia and there was no issue with immigration. A lot of people have been threatened with interpol but then again thats just scare tactics. We flew with cathay pacific so the route was over russia.

 

Thinking of flying with turkish airline next time. Do you think thats a wise idea?

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Hi uncle. Thanks for the reminder again. We have travelled in europe and far east asia and there was no issue with immigration. A lot of people have been threatened with interpol but then again thats just scare tactics. We flew with cathay pacific so the route was over russia.

 

Thinking of flying with turkish airline next time. Do you think thats a wise idea?

 

Don't know about going to Turkey, but no problem using the airline to go to a non islamic country.

 

The interpol notice issues seems to only relate to business type debts rather than consumer debts. But how many of the online stories have any truth to them, i am not convinced. They are not in mainstream media where the facts have been checked.

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from my extensive investigations over the last few weeks

it appears most of the so called 'apprehensions' at airports are made up stories

 

 

these appears only on forums run by people that fleece you out of money behind the scenes to write silly letters for you that you can do for free.

 

 

bit like the private parking ticket s.cammer sites

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Agree. This seems to be the case.

I think one advice site was set up originally for totally understandable reasons.

But if it then becomes a way of earning an income, there might be a temptation to believe in and publicise certain stories for which there seems to be little evidence. I might change my mind if a UK newspaper prints a story naming people detained at ports in Europe and the story is fully checked out.

 

I think there have been a few detentions at borders in the Middle East related to debts in Dubai, but i can't see why Interpol would allow UAE to start posting red notices regarding debts, so that people from Western countries get detained at European airports.

If it related to serious business fraud, i might understand it.

We could do with some help from you.

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