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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4617416 Not upheld
Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Mon Apr 08deadline to accept (not the decision date)
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What this decision was about
Irresponsible lending, Complaint handling
In the Ombudsman’s words
Ms S complains that Lantern Debt Recovery Services Ltd is unfairly attempting to collect a debt it acquired in her name.Irresponsible lending
Ms S went on to raise a complaint with Lantern and said the account should never have been sold as she’d raised a complaint with A’s administrators.Complaint handling
Source
This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4617416.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.
The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.