Reply To: Get £175 when you switch your current account to Barclays Premier

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cin3 wrote:

In any case, I’m sure people are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves whether any action they take would be in breach of terms or statute in reality. And deciding for themselves what course of action they wish to take 🙂

@cin3 – yes, of course people are capable of making decisions for themselves, but there are inexperienced young people who could be influenced by your casual approach to lying about their income with potentially terrible consequences. It is beyond the pale to make the suggestion to the OP that they should just lie about their income to be able to open a Premier account. You have an inalienable right to make idiotic decisions or commit criminal acts and bear the consequences for yourself but on a respectable website, to encourage others to do so without caveat is outrageous. I’m sure sure that even in your universe where these sort of things are apparently acceptable, you will know of small transgressions that have snowballed into disaster. You clearly don’t know much about credit underwriting.

I grant you that it’s no so frequent, but yes hundreds of people are prosecuted every year for lying about their income or other facts to obtain credit. It’s greatly in the interests of providers to report people.