Unpaid credit card bill

[dl13]

Hi there,

My friend has just left Australia and went back to London where he is from. He left behind him a credit card bill of over 10,000 Australian dollars on his visa card.

My question is if he does not pay this off will it come back to haunt him in the UK i.e. is there a link between Australian credit card companies and UK credit card companies or is he only in trouble if he goes back to Ausrtalia?

And if the credit card company does catch up with him in the UK now do they do this? Through the p***port number you use when you sign up or something else

Thanks

[expertcredit09]

yea I think credit card company can catch him through p***port no.and then he may be big trouble.so it is good for him to pay his bill.

[dl13]

So is this just want you think or do you know this for a fact?

He has other mates that did it a couple of years ago and they were not caught

[downrollings]

I was so broke, in fact, that I actually had no idea how broke I was. The exact number had become a mystery, something hidden (or, rather, stuffed) in the closet: I didn't know how much I owed on those credit cards, or how much was in my bank account, or whether that balance -- were I to check it online, which I did not do that month -- would be positive or negative. I knew I owed several thousand. Five freaking digits. The evidence sat in a neat stack of unopened credit card bills, which had been piling up next to the French press since October. The evidence came in the form of phone calls from bill collectors, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., calls that I never answered.

If this sounds like breezy indifference, if it seems that I was not worried, then good; I fooled you. I was desperately trying to pretend that my financial plight did not bother me. Who wants to confront such colossal failure? Besides, it was the holidays. Gifts and parties and free champagne. Every day the mail brought Christmas cards with pictures of friends' babies doing adorable, uncanny things. The mail also brought bills. The pictures went on the fridge. The bills? They went into the stack.

In my apartment, alone, I had fits of anxiety. Tears, clenched fists, the works. I lay bug-eyed at 4 a.m., wondering how I was going to get out of this mess. I needed more time. I needed more work.

[elenora789]

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Elenora
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