gifts of money
I'm on UC and have about £1K in my bank account, no other savings or capital. At easter several friends sent me gifts of money via paypal, and recently they sent a few more payments as gifts as they know I'm hard up and have expenses, covering which would deplete my meagre £1K. Over the past few months the gifts have totalled about £600, and were all immediately spent on things I needed, from toiletries to medical supplies. On every paypal payment they very clearly wrote in the message box that it was a gift from a friend to help with my personal expenses and cover medical supply costs.
Is this OK? If they check my paypal account will I get in trouble?
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you are allowed up to 6k in savings, i believe
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As Kreacher has said you are allowed up to 6K in savings. You won't get into any trouble, for that amount.
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I know that, but are regular monetary gifts from friends OK?
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Scammer!
Advertising loan sites!
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Okay we believe you… not. First of all the site your falsley advertising is a US site not a UK one, so everything you said is baloney.
Second of all you're advertising a Broker, not an actual loan site. All that site does is sell your information for commission.
Thirdly, lendup was fined in 2022 for £100,000 by the US Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, you can see report here:
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-105879.pdfI would recommend ceasing and desisting even attempting to scam people on here, the members and site are protected by people who could track you down, Marcus Brown from New York and literally bring you to justice.
Have a good day.
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reported
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For what?
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it’s because of situations like this that I’m totally against digital ID and against the ban on VPN’s - I read somewhere that as part of the online safety act and later internet safety laws that the state wants to closely track all of people’s internet activity which U.K. ISP’s will be obliged to provide without telling the user nor seeking the users consent, without a warrant, effectively making all online privacy itself illegal and exposing people to all manner of online scams which they still have done nothing about - it’s probably a reason why both the CCP and North Korea shut off all internet traffic from outside of those countries, using their own internal “intranet” type networks - people in the U.K. have been endlessly scammed by foreign call centres by U.K. companies (where outsourcing has never been banned) and yet the government is doing nothing to put an end to that while hassling people on benefits who are getting help from friends and family - they should be supporting this rather than punishing people from getting such help
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There will always be ways round things, if you know how ofc. Currently it takes me roughly 5-10mins to get a persons full info, DoB, Address, phone number, work details, any email addresses you own and current location and most of your digital footprint/history. I could even go as far as knowing exactly what room your in, in your property at any given time.
Put in digital ID on everything this would be instantaneous.
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it’s not so much the technology per se or the ability to get certain info, it’s really about how that info is used in a socially, ethically and morally responsible way and to what extent can we really trust those in positions of power (and should they really have that level of power and control in the first place) to act with integrity, moral authority and in a socially responsible way, for the common good, in a real sense, not in the pursuit of personal interests of of that of certain third parties or foreign powers, however directly or indirectly - ironically, in all of this, since the first inception of the Internet, no real efforts were ever made to control who gets access to the internet, aside from increased censorship in more recent times and far more importantly, no serious effort was really made to block all access to and indeed get rid of the dark web/deep web
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Unfortunately as the years go by more and more restrictions are being put in place and we are being more controlled on what we can do, eat, watch etc. This is only going to get worst, the digital ID is just the start. Beyond that world leaders want to put restrictions on your carbon footprint, and everyone will have a carbon allowance restricting what you can/can't buy.
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