Thank you all for your advise.
It is clear that I should report this woman to the Police.

Without much chance of claiming our £5000 back, I believe that she has come out of the situation rather well. She maintains a house (estimated to be worth £200K - with equity as her mortgage repayments are only £175 per month, therefore small mortgage). Also she has the added bonus of having a new f...

B&E will not listen to our side.

No, we wern't asked to vote. Saying that on the information we have had through there is a list of all the people she owes money to. Us being no 5 on a list 8 in total, starting with the largest debt as no1 (Northern Rock!!!).[V]Total debts amounted to about £75,000.

Thank you all for your replies. I am one of the unfortunate 'retailers' that has been taken for a ride by a person who has done just this. A customer of ours has had goods to the value of £5000 from our company in July 2008. However it has now been bought to our attention that this person had put th...

Is it legal for someone to apply for an IVA in June 2008 and list a range of companies that they would like to be put on the list before they go out and spend that amount with that company eg. list that company with a debt management company on their IVA list 'before' actually going to purchase the ...