Don't know if this outfit, who are based in England, operate in Ireland or not.
I received a letter from my bank this morning stating that they would not action my request for a standing order to made paying Wescot Credit £30.00 per month from 01/10/06.
I have no dealings with this outfit who are a debt collection agency and, have no debts, no credit cards, no mortgage and I did not try to set up a standing order in their favour as there was no reason for me to do so.
The letter from my bank included my account number, sort code etc.
The only people to whom I gave my sort code (which identifies my bank branch) was the bank's call centre when I called a few days ago re a new savings account that the bank was offering.
I believe that, without the bank's vigilance, the £30.00 per month is such a small sum that it is quite possible that I would not have noticed it going out.
I Googled this company and found the following site (one of about 10 pages of sites): http://www.clik2complaints.co.uk/august/02.html
Another site [broken link removed] includes an entry which says "I went to the bank today and discovered a direct debit had been set up with them to take £47 out of my account for the next 96 years..........the best bit is that I didntset this direct debit up so they must have got my details from somewhere else."
My bank are retrieving the original request for the standing order from their Peterborough Centre.
Check your statements closely and frequently.
I received a letter from my bank this morning stating that they would not action my request for a standing order to made paying Wescot Credit £30.00 per month from 01/10/06.
I have no dealings with this outfit who are a debt collection agency and, have no debts, no credit cards, no mortgage and I did not try to set up a standing order in their favour as there was no reason for me to do so.
The letter from my bank included my account number, sort code etc.
The only people to whom I gave my sort code (which identifies my bank branch) was the bank's call centre when I called a few days ago re a new savings account that the bank was offering.
I believe that, without the bank's vigilance, the £30.00 per month is such a small sum that it is quite possible that I would not have noticed it going out.
I Googled this company and found the following site (one of about 10 pages of sites): http://www.clik2complaints.co.uk/august/02.html
Another site [broken link removed] includes an entry which says "I went to the bank today and discovered a direct debit had been set up with them to take £47 out of my account for the next 96 years..........the best bit is that I didntset this direct debit up so they must have got my details from somewhere else."
My bank are retrieving the original request for the standing order from their Peterborough Centre.
Check your statements closely and frequently.