In the expat community in London it was one option which many took before they left the uk for good
apply for dozens of credit credit cards then run up them all up to max buying store vouchers which you then sold for a little under face value. there was quite the active market for them, for a while our share house shopped with nothing but sainsburys vouchers. Ditto run up your council tax, utilities, tv licence, etc, though that was easy enough to put in a fake name anyway by the simple ruse of adding a fake name to the account, then a little later taking off the real one. you could put off the baliffs for six months by asking for a payment plan then renegging on that too, but usually you were off to heathrow with the money already wired home long before then. I guess you might face issues if you ever returned, though most were on one year holiday or 4 year ancestry visas, and the pound used to go a long away back in your home country
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