Payday lender Lending Stream refunded £500 but bank claims it couldn’t be sure that case was fraud In May I noticed three apparently random sums had been removed from my Lloyds bank account. They turned out to be payments to a short-term loans company called Lending Stream, yet I have never applied for or received such a loan
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Lloyds no help when stolen bank details used for payday loan
December 2nd, 2012 
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No Comments »T-Mobile set bailiffs on me for imaginary phone contract
December 2nd, 2012 admin Change from pay-as-you-go to monthly mobile deal led to double the bills – and an unwanted sex change In April I changed my phone from pay-as-you-go to a monthly contract with T-Mobile. I did this through Phones4U, which notified T-Mobile to transfer my old number to my new phone.
Posted in World Financial News Tags: card, change, changed, discovered, guardian, household bills, monthly, observer, phone, set, sim, the observer No Comments »The embarrassment Aldi had in store for me
November 5th, 2012 admin Security guard made me empty my bag in front of everyone, even though I hadn’t done anything wrong I was in Aldi when I received a call from a friend I was to meet.
Barclays takes PPI payments and fails to address claim
September 1st, 2012 admin PPI paperwork sent to the wrong address caused delays and confusion in a seemingly straightforward claim On 21 March I telephoned Barclays to pursue a possible PPI claim. I was sent a questionnaire to submit and on 14 May Barclays sent me a copy of its “Full Resolution”, but addressed it to the house from which my late husband and I had moved four years previously
Posted in World Financial News Tags: bank, caused, consumer affairs, features, insurance, mark, observer, ppi, strong, write, york No Comments »Europe doing too little: World Bank chief
June 17th, 2012 admin …Greek leadership threatens to leave the euro zone, then the rest of Europe must have developed a mechanism to cushion that,” he said.
Aviva steps in to cover a £63,000 case of missold insurance
June 10th, 2012 admin An insurance giant has generously allowed me to resolve the last problem I have tackled on behalf of readers I have just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. My wife died of cancer last year.
Posted in World Financial News Tags: companies, letters, life insurance, mortgage, observer, policy, problem, time No Comments »How do I prove my PPI case when Lloyds denies my loans exist?
June 2nd, 2012 admin I am still repaying £100 a month and believe I have been missold I was self-employed and took business loans from Lloyds TSB with payment protection insurance (PPI). In 2006, the lease of my workshop ran out and the landlord increased the rent to a level I couldn’t afford.
BA’s wedding gift was a ruined suitcase and an unpaid refund
March 11th, 2012 admin We flew back from honeymoon on BA – but our suitcase only arrived 36 hours later minus jewellery, perfume and lingerie After 25 years together my partner and I had our wedding and honeymoon in Rome last November. On the way back I told the BA check-in staff that we’d just got married and the woman said she would put an orange priority label on my luggage.
Posted in World Financial News Tags: claim, consumer rights, features, guardian, lingerie, margaret, money, observer, problems, rights, strong, the observer No Comments »Gas Prices, Oil Prices Rise — Talk of Another Recession: What’s Ahead for U.S.?
February 26th, 2012 admin Why is one professional observer so negative about America's short-term economic prospects?
Posted in World Financial News Tags: america, economic, negative, observer, professional, prospects, short, term No Comments »PPI refund delays from Lloyds TSB persist
February 20th, 2012 admin Lloyds’ customers still suffering lengthy delays, and mounting frustration, in obtaining PPI refunds Since I wrote about the length of time Lloyds is taking to pay agreed PPI refunds more readers have sent us their complaints and I have passed these on to Lloyds to investigate. In 2011 banks agreed £1bn in PPI refunds.
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