In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t even matter 
I blame aliens though 
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I doubt it was E.T. He likes to use the phone and we all know CS does not like answering the phone 
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Missed my chance 10 hours ago
Loving the GIF that it has been directed towards though
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I’m just surprised watchdog didn’t buy it with their cover last year.
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It’s just not what they do
So you joined to tell us that?
Very kind of you.
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That’s funny 
I’m not 100% convinced it’s Starling either except for the fact that they have done this before
Surely if it was Starling they would stump up the ‘big bucks’ and buys the domain monzo.sucks :
It’s all very immature though. My guess is it’s just a disgruntled customer. I think a company like Starling would be more classy (Starling’s previous stunt at least showed a small amount of friendly banter rather than an all out immature attack)
(Also Monzo ought to bag that domain, as should any company bag their own brand. But I really don’t know why that TLD was ever approved to be honest as it’s inevitably only ever going to be used by hostile and angry customers…)
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Yep. I’m no expert in PR but a company making a true statement that another company ‘sucks’ either needs solid grounding (some kind of solid evidence that they really do ‘suck’) or otherwise it comes across as ridiculously childish. Might as well be ‘monzosmells.com’ in that case.
I mean that would actually be far funnier…
This thread has literally made my morning 
still goes to Starling for me 
Hm… for me it’s Fintech talk forum, not Starling
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Fintech form for me, so if people are still seeing Starling then either there’s some local caching going on, or the change is still propagating through the DNS system.
Ooh! That’s a new innovation angle for Monzo to try! Scratch-and-sniff debit cards!
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Be quite literally be someone off Monzo stole my money, now they’ve got that money back of course
Looks like a prank as @SouthseaOne suggested.
Suddenly the WHOIS data is there monzosucks.com whois lookup - who.is so this has got to be a windup
All getting a bit meta now:
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I personally very much doubt that Liam from FTT actually owns it. He’s (seemingly genuinely) had person/people masquerade as him before on FTT and it seems unlikely that he would leave his details on public display - that would seem more a thing to do if you wanted to implicate him
It would be a daft escalation of the conflict that does not really exist between here and the other place if it was actually the case though
I am afraid you’ve got the wrong Liam. Perhaps I could ask @Mogolent to take a little care not to shoot first, before asking questions. Should keep everyone out of the sticky brown stuff.
I do own Fintech Talk, I am called Liam, but that’s where things take a slight turn. I am not called Liam Bowers nor do I play him on TV or anywhere else, for that matter!
I may, however, have an explanation for who may be behind this. There is a troll, he was active on FTT and previously on here too.
I assume he did a whois search on fintechtalk.co.uk and confused the registrar who I bought the domain from (Xilo) to be my company. Doing a search on companies House shows there is a Liam registered as a director there. He’s called, you’ve got it, Liam Bowers.
I removed several abusive accounts in the name of Liam Bowers, (and others), who our troll thinks is me and eventually he started registering domains.
So this fella thinks I am Liam Bowers and is spending his own cash to try and irritate or intimidate me. Fine, I ain’t in the slightest bit bothered.
Registering a domain in the name of a real person though… One who exists, runs a company and who isn’t in the slightest bit involved in FTT and who might be bothered about somebody claiming he’d behind some puerile hate campaign… I mean, that’s fraudulent activity. He might be bothered.
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Welcome back to these parts Liam
I remember the whole Liam Bowers debacle(s) all too well from my spell on the other place
Just a reminder to all that the Community Code of Conduct specifically condemns anything approaching or reaching the standards of doxxing, so no more speculation or naming of names (correct or otherwise) please:
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