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Good Evening Everyone,
Just to give some background information to my circumstances as this has been going on for a few years now.
In August 2012 my partner and her cousin were in Whitby for a few days using my car. They parked in the CO-OP car park and overstayed the allocated time by 11 minutes. Thought nothing of it until I received a PCN saying I owed £90 but if I paid within so many days then it would be £45. Did some research at the time and the advice was ignore these letters as I wasn't driving the vehicle and was not required to disclose this information. Over the next few months/years I kept receiving various letters demanding money and threatening that this debt was escalating and would be signed over to a debt recovery agency. I kept ignoring these letters as thought they were using scare tactics to try and get me to pay.
In my current job I often work abroad and a few months ago while I was out the country I received a letter at home (which my partner opened and rang me about) saying it was a claim form from Northampton County Court. The claim form was NOT an original document and was clearly a photocopy with a suspicious looking County Court stamp on it. The amount claimed was £130, court fees of £35 were added as well solicitors cost's of £50 giving a total amount claimed of £215.00.
As I was out the country I told my partner to ignore it as it was a photocopied document and I would deal with it on my return. When I returned home and seen it I decided it looked like a fake and again they were just trying to use scare tactics to get me to pay. Again thought nothing of it until this morning.
This morning I received a "Judgment for Claimant" (in default) letter saying I had not replied to the claim form and therefore must pay £130 for the debt and £107 for the cost therefore a total of £237.00.
Again it does not look like an official document and again has a suspicious looking County Court stamp on it. It gives the address to make payment to as Debt Enforcement & Action Limited, Horton House, Exchange flags, Liverpool, L2 3PF.
It also states that details of this judgement will be entered in a public register.
I have checked on http://www.trustonline.org.uk/ and there is no record of this on my file. Again I think this letter is a fake and they are just trying to scare me into paying.
Do you agree?
Thanks in advance.
Just to give some background information to my circumstances as this has been going on for a few years now.
In August 2012 my partner and her cousin were in Whitby for a few days using my car. They parked in the CO-OP car park and overstayed the allocated time by 11 minutes. Thought nothing of it until I received a PCN saying I owed £90 but if I paid within so many days then it would be £45. Did some research at the time and the advice was ignore these letters as I wasn't driving the vehicle and was not required to disclose this information. Over the next few months/years I kept receiving various letters demanding money and threatening that this debt was escalating and would be signed over to a debt recovery agency. I kept ignoring these letters as thought they were using scare tactics to try and get me to pay.
In my current job I often work abroad and a few months ago while I was out the country I received a letter at home (which my partner opened and rang me about) saying it was a claim form from Northampton County Court. The claim form was NOT an original document and was clearly a photocopy with a suspicious looking County Court stamp on it. The amount claimed was £130, court fees of £35 were added as well solicitors cost's of £50 giving a total amount claimed of £215.00.
As I was out the country I told my partner to ignore it as it was a photocopied document and I would deal with it on my return. When I returned home and seen it I decided it looked like a fake and again they were just trying to use scare tactics to get me to pay. Again thought nothing of it until this morning.
This morning I received a "Judgment for Claimant" (in default) letter saying I had not replied to the claim form and therefore must pay £130 for the debt and £107 for the cost therefore a total of £237.00.
Again it does not look like an official document and again has a suspicious looking County Court stamp on it. It gives the address to make payment to as Debt Enforcement & Action Limited, Horton House, Exchange flags, Liverpool, L2 3PF.
It also states that details of this judgement will be entered in a public register.
I have checked on http://www.trustonline.org.uk/ and there is no record of this on my file. Again I think this letter is a fake and they are just trying to scare me into paying.
Do you agree?
Thanks in advance.
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