Foreigner using my address

sitnomini

Early December, I got a couple of letters from a top mobile phone company, addressed to a foreign sounding person, rest of the address details correct.
Endorsed them return to sender, this person has never lived here.

Then I got a window envelope, and could see that this letter contained "Confirmation of Insurance", have yet to process this letter, but have not opened it. Today's mail brings, to the same named person, what I believe is a statement.

Who does one go to with this sort of case? Someone has presented sufficient evidence to a company to get a contract of sorts using my address.

How do I protect the use of my address to just me?

Thank you

pitkin2020

another thread stated you can get in touch with Royal mail and inform that you or whoever else is in your hosue are the only and sole residents and they stop any other post that doesnt have your name on it from being received

spike7451

Go to the police.

pitkin2020

spike7451 wrote: »

Go to the police.

thats a bit dramatic at the moment, it could simply be a mistake whereby its a neighbour and the sender has got the number incorrect, if its from a phone company and the bill is coming out your bank account aswell then phone the police.
If it were me i'd just phone the phone company and tell them whats happenning

vikingaero

Open the letter, write to the mobile company telling them that you think they are being scammed and you don't want any further correspondence from them.

And it's NOT an offence to open mail not addressed to you before someone says so.

spike7451

pitkin2020 wrote: »

thats a bit dramatic at the moment, it could simply be a mistake whereby its a neighbour and the sender has got the number incorrect, if its from a phone company and the bill is coming out your bank account aswell then phone the police.
If it were me i'd just phone the phone company and tell them whats happenning

One letter's a mistake,three from different company's more serious.

penrhyn

What if the mobile is used to detonate a device? A trace on the phones owner will come up with your address.

custardy

spike7451 wrote: »

One letter's a mistake,three from different company's more serious.

you would be surprised how many people struggle with their own address

elsien

I had a similar thing - later found out whoever it was was working their way through the addresses on my street.
Return to sender will get you nowhere - open the letter, phone the mobile company and tell them you are concerned about fraud. Don't let them fob you off with "data protection" (they tried that with me) but tell them the person does not and never has lived at that address and you want their records to show that.
I was advised to go to the police (waste of time, theirs and mine, nothing they can do if they have no proper address for whoever is doing it) and to contact CIFAS as possible attempt at id fraud.
Never heard any more after that, so presumably he's now using the address 3 houses up from mine. :rotfl:

pinkshoes

Mobile phones taken out in wrong addresses are usually used for drug dealing...

I would open the insurance letter, phone them up, and tell them that no one of that name has lived at that address, and it's fraudulent. I would then write to the company, sending the letter back, just to clarify with them that no one of that name has ever lived at that address.

hayley11

Agree with others, open any letters you get for them and phone the companies and inform them that they have never lived there.

The guy who used to live here used this address for ages after we moved in, at first I just thought he hadn't changed his address on everything but then about a year after we were still getting letters so I started opening them and ringing the companies, haven't had any for ages now.