{"id":88839,"date":"2018-05-21T13:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T06:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/water-firm-took-1500-from-me-but-wont-give-it-back\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T14:03:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T07:03:23","slug":"water-firm-took-1500-from-me-but-wont-give-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/water-firm-took-1500-from-me-but-wont-give-it-back\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Water firm took \u00a31,500 from me \u2013\u00a0but won&#039;t give it back&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nCastle Water blames Thames Water and has held up my money for more than six monthsOver a year ago, I lived in a flat and paid my water bills to Thames Water. After I left, my account was sold as part of a bundle of business water accounts to Castle Water. This was an error since my flat was a residential address. I had already paid all my water bills. Incredibly, Castle Water then took a series of payments from my bank account totalling around \u00a31,500. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2018\/may\/21\/castle-water-took-money-from-bank-account-thames-water\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Water firm took \u00a31,500 from me \u2013\u00a0but won&#8217;t give it back&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Castle Water blames Thames Water and has held up my money for more than six&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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-88839","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-n6T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76702,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-was-i-harassed-over-a-water-bill-thats-nothing-to-do-with-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":88839,"position":0},"title":"Why was I harassed over a water bill that\u2019s nothing to do with me?","date":"January 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Castle Water sent me bills at the wrong house number when I\u2019m a Thames Water customerCan you please stop Castle Water harassing me to pay bills for a next door property which is nothing to do with me. 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