Foreigner using my address

pitkin2020

pinkshoes wrote: »

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.

are you a drug dealer?? or just smoking to much weed because that post is just pure tripe, where are you getting your facts from to back up that vodafone is A) choice network for criminals and untraceable phonecalls
Your making it up as you go along, all phone calls are traceable to a location that is fact, whilst you may not be able to trace who the caller is you can still find the location the call is being made from

sitnomini

Thank you for the advice. I will see if any other thinker out in the forum comes up with anything in the next day or two, then decide what to do.

In answer to some of the questions.

All three letters are from the same company. Only one is a window, allowing us to see that it is an Insurance Confirmation.

We talk with the majority of our neighbours. This name is Far East foreign and none of them seen in our post code block.

Did ask the one single chap if he had gone off and got him self an Asian Bride.

We also have the luck, at the moment, of keeping the same postie. I will ask him if this relates to anyone in the area.

Regarding transposition errors if passing information on by phone, as I am pretty sure I will be contacting the company, that may clear it up, but I don't expect to be any the wiser, cos of the data protection act being quoted, maybe even correctly quoted.

Thank you

Snakeeyes21

Contract phones for drug dealers and bombers?
Give the muppets some credit, everybody knows you use untraceable payg phones / sims for those purposes

pinkshoes

pitkin2020 wrote: »

are you a drug dealer?? or just smoking to much weed because that post is just pure tripe, where are you getting your facts from to back up that vodafone is A) choice network for criminals and untraceable phonecalls
Your making it up as you go along, all phone calls are traceable to a location that is fact, whilst you may not be able to trace who the caller is you can still find the location the call is being made from

My information is from the police and a mobile phone expert who works for the police in crimes where mobile phones are required to track the whereabouts of criminals.

If you MAKE a call from a Vodafone sim, then the network will track your location at the start and the finish of the call. If you are RECEIVING a call, then Vodafone do not record this information, so police can't track the person.

DirtPoorGuy

pinkshoes wrote: »

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.

Every mobile phone in the UK has an IMEI number, it won't operate on any British network without it, the IMEI number allows the phones movements between cell stations to be monitored, this number is embedded into the phone, it has nothing to do with the network that you are on, if you swap sim cards on the phone it can still be tracked, the only way to stop being tracked is to ditch the phone, Vodafone is not an exception, in fact even if your phone has no sim card in it and it is switched on it can be tracked so that in an emergency your location can be found, this is part of the GSM.

As I previously stated why go to all the trouble of opening up a fraudulent account, which usually involves some kind of identity theft to do so, when the lifespan of the phone is short lived, and I mean a few days maximum, it takes longer to set up an account than the time the phone will be used for, it is much easier and safer to buy a cheap PAYG phone at a supermarket and throw it away after the first top up has been used.

BFG_2

DirtPoorGuy wrote: »

...it is much easier and safer to buy a cheap PAYG phone at a supermarket and throw it away after the first top up has been used.

Absolutely, that's what I do. It's the first lesson in "Evading Capture 101".

el_gringo_3

pinkshoes wrote: »

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

IME they are almost always to sell the phone on, having never paid a penny of the contract, or very occasionally in order to commit insurance fraud. Was a favourite trick of oriental customers when I worked in a phone shop, who used to also swap their first/middle/last names around to get several contracts, as very few of us in the shops new any better.

Drug dealers simply use unregistered pay as you go sims as they are less traceable and they don't make many outgoing calls. Why would a drug dealer go to the bother of geting a dodgy phone which is only likely to get 'barred' on him a couple of weeks/months down the line, or add fraud to his rap sheet if/when hes busted? Think it was vodafone that was the favourite, as the PAYG sims worked right out the box.

pitkin2020

pinkshoes dont believe anything a copper tells you!! As DPG said every phone has an IMEI number which is used for the tarcking regardless of network.

El_Gringo is right in saying that vodafone sims can just be used without any registration and can be topped up, other networks make you register the sim to the phone before allowing a top up, that is probably the main reasons criminals use vodafone over other networks, and has nothing to do with the lack of tracking

pitkin2020

sitnomini wrote: »

Thank you for the advice. I will see if any other thinker out in the forum comes up with anything in the next day or two, then decide what to do.

In answer to some of the questions.

All three letters are from the same company. Only one is a window, allowing us to see that it is an Insurance Confirmation.

We talk with the majority of our neighbours. This name is Far East foreign and none of them seen in our post code block.

Did ask the one single chap if he had gone off and got him self an Asian Bride.

We also have the luck, at the moment, of keeping the same postie. I will ask him if this relates to anyone in the area.

Regarding transposition errors if passing information on by phone, as I am pretty sure I will be contacting the company, that may clear it up, but I don't expect to be any the wiser, cos of the data protection act being quoted, maybe even correctly quoted.

Thank you

your right that the phone company wont pass any details on to you but they should get in contact with the person as they have his mobile number and discuss it with him, atleast they should stop sending you letters

BFG_2

pitkin2020 wrote: »

your right that the phone company wont....

You're wrong...