Foreigner using my address

dacouch

penrhyn wrote: »

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

If that's the case, lets hope it's on Three Mobile as it's likely not to work due to no reception...

pitkin2020

spike7451 wrote: »

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

the op never said it was from three different companies, if one was for a mobile and the other was for insurance they would automatically use the same address, your just making assumptions.

to the OP you have been given the best advice so far to just open the letter and contact the sender informing them that the person whom it is addressed to does not live here.

As for drug dealing and bomb detenation your being a bit melodramatic dont you think, and if it were treu there is nothing more the OP could do than stated above!!

DirtPoorGuy

penrhyn wrote: »

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

I think your reality check has just bounced.

You can walk into any supermarket and buy a £20 phone off the shelf so why go to all that trouble?

pinkshoes wrote: »

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

No they are not, dealers use what are called 'Burn phones', they are PAYG phones that are used for one top up then binned, so that they cannot be tracked using their IMEI number.

pitkin2020

DirtPoorGuy wrote: »

dealers use what are called 'Burn phones', they are PAYG phones that are used for one top up then binned, so that they cannot be tracked using their IMEI number.

What are you talking about, next you're going to tell me drug dealers dont pay their earnings into their bank accounts and they dont file their end of year tax report, and they dont have a contract phone linked to their bank account for easy tracing purposes to help the police find them quickly.....your silly:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: then you're going to tell me something even more ridiculous like drug dealers only deal in cash, they buy phones for cash, use cash to put credit on them......hhhmmm maybe they should scrap cash on collection

BFG_2

I'm going to tell you that it's "you're going to tell me".

pitkin2020

BFG wrote: »

I'm going to tell you that it's "you're going to tell me".

what would this forum do without you!!

woody01

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

What a load of rubbish!

BFG_2

pitkin2020 wrote: »

what would this forum do without you!!

I don't know, but the grammar would certainly get worser and far badder [sic, sic].

pinkshoes

DirtPoorGuy wrote: »

No they are not, dealers use what are called 'Burn phones', they are PAYG phones that are used for one top up then binned, so that they cannot be tracked using their IMEI number.

OR... phones registered at a random address that are not PAYG, but in fact monthly contracts, usually Vodafone, which is the choice phone network for criminals as you can't be traced when receiving calls.

hotcookie101

OR its possibly a mistake on the phone companies behalf, not the "foreign sounding person"

I once took out a mobile contract in a shop, when the sales person passed details over the phone to the company they got my house number wrong (was correct on written contract I had) and sent details to the wrong address. Those people rang the company, said noone of that name lived there and it must be fraud, I was never contacted, o2 cut me off and it took over 5 weeks to get it reconnected, despite me having my original correct signed contract :grr:
Give the company a ring though, as I know my case is probably unusual, but it still smarts 8 years later!