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Dog offered credit card

A dog in Greater Manchester has been offered a gold credit card with a spending limit of 10,000. An application form arrived in the post for Monty, a Shih-Tzu, from the Royal Bank of Scotland.

The letter was addressed to the dog at the home of his owner, Raymond Slater, in Stockport.

He was offered a gold credit card and the chance to earn air miles.

An Royal Bank of Scotland spokeswoman said: "We have apologised for any inconvenience caused to Mr Slater.

"We bought the name from a list broker and have no idea why Monty's details were provided.

"His name has now been removed from the database and we are sending a hamper to Mr Slater by way of apology."

Reply to
Dudley
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A hamper ???. What,nothing for the dog who has been deprived of his credit card. :-)) Stuart

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Reply to
Stuart

I bet he's on the electoral register as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply to
PaulC

Of course, the media love stories like this and don't bother to explain what happened ... most likely the owner put the dog's name on something or other (e.g. to get a quote for insurance), either for fun or to see where junk mail was coming from (I've had mail addressed to the previous owner's cat as well as some other rather improbable names). CC companies send out bulk mailings to people on the lists, with some vague degree of filtering, e.g. they might do gold cards from car insurance applications if the car is a Mercedes. The dog would not have actually got a card unless it could pass a credit check - in which case the owner has probably done something illegal like putting it on the electoral roll and opening a bank account in its name.

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Stephen Burke

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