{"id":69240,"date":"2017-10-17T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/virgin-media-is-chasing-me-for-over-outstanding-bill-for-a-phone-i-never-owned\/"},"modified":"2017-10-17T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T07:07:23","slug":"virgin-media-is-chasing-me-for-over-outstanding-bill-for-a-phone-i-never-owned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/virgin-media-is-chasing-me-for-over-outstanding-bill-for-a-phone-i-never-owned\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media is chasing me for over outstanding bill for a phone I never owned"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI\u2019ve never owned a mobile but Virgin began taking direct debits from my bank account and then sent debt collectors aroundCan you please help me to get Virgin Media to call off the debt collectors for a mobile phone contract that is nothing to do with me?I have never owned a mobile, but in June I noticed the company had taken two \u00a313 payments by direct debit. I contacted the bank to cancel the direct debit, and staff confirmed that I had been refunded the money. They advised me that it was probably a clerical error and nothing to worry about. But in August I received a threatening letter from debt collectors demanding \u00a339 outstanding from Virgin Mobile. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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I\u2019ve never owned a mobile but Virgin began taking direct debits from my bank account...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-i0M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36558,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/families-on-tax-credit-harassment-a-massive-headache-and-real-worry\/","url_meta":{"origin":69240,"position":0},"title":"Families on tax-credit harassment: 'a massive headache and real worry'","date":"November 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Chased by debt collectors for overpayments made in error by HMRC, they suffer what one MP calls a \u2018menacing obstacle course\u2019 Since its introduction in 2003, the tax-credit system has been plagued with problems. 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