{"id":1294,"date":"2020-01-29T16:19:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2020-01-29T16:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:19:41","slug":"beware-of-credit-investigation-department-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/2020\/01\/29\/beware-of-credit-investigation-department-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of &#8216;Credit Investigation Department&#8217; Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 29 January 2020, Rev Ross Rennie received a telephone call from a mobile phone. The caller claimed to be calling on behalf of the &#8216;Credit Investigation Department&#8217;. When this person started asking about debts, Rev Ross terminated the call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On checking with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), we find that &#8216;this firm has been carrying out consumer credit activities in the UK without [the FCA&#8217;s] permission or authorisation.&#8217; Find out more at the FCA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fca.org.uk\/news\/warnings\/credit-investigation-department-bureau-services\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please beware of any approaches from this or similar firms and do not disclose your personal information to people or companies that you do not have an existing relationship with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This firm has been carrying out consumer credit activities in the UK without the permission or authorisation of the Financial Conduct Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}