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Someone using my address to get mobile phone contracts, please help!

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  • deja64
    deja64 Posts: 11 Forumite
    Thats pretty much what the police said oh and to get a copy of my credit report to check for anything. Not sure why an online one is taking so long though...this is what it says????
    We are currently working to resolve a validation issue on your report. Please bear with us and we will contact you as soon as this issue is resolved.
  • I would be pro active. I would write letters, to be sent by recorded delivery, to all the people you have a financial relationship with. I would also write to the credit reference agencies and particularly the mobile phone companies.

    Why? Well, you establish your position and you inform them that they are accessory to any future fraud he undertakes with them.

    I would also advise them that I would charge for any time you were required to spend on rectifying any future problem, including your legal and advisory costs, which was due to their negligence. Essentially, if you tell them that this scumbag is perpetrating a fraud and they do nothing about it and let him carry on and then it affects you, then you should be able to claim all costs, including for your time, which you incur in rectifying the problem.

    Finally, write to him at any address you know you may be staying at. Copy all to the police and insist they open a file on this guy and his actions.

    Obviously you include any and all facts about your very limited time together and all his personal details including any other names he may have been using.
  • Dayoshir
    Dayoshir Posts: 28 Forumite
    Dont let the police give you that crap.

    They will try and get out of investigating anything, just keep on at them. You know he has committed a crime.

    Ring them again, speak to a sergeant and politely inform him/her that you would like this matter investigated as a crime has been committed, if they fail to investigate it then you will report the matter to the ipcc.
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