FIRE - Financial Investigations and Recoveries (Europe) Limited

Has anyone hear of there people?

I have learn that the previous person to live at our address (moved out 13th June 2010) had a debt with Next Retails for £389.21 they have passed the debt to Cabot who have now instructed FIRE. These people say they will pass the account onto DoorStep Agents to collect the outstanding balance if they aren't contacted immediately.

What should we do? I doubt they will send anyone out and we won't be answering the door to people we don't know. Thankfully the last tenants installed a peep hole thingy, probably for this reason. They have 6 kids neither work and they have done up their new home with payday loans!

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  • fatbelly
    fatbelly Posts: 22,571 Forumite
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    Yeah - dodgy debt collection agency - come across them a few times.

    Just keep returning their letters (unopened) maked 'no longer at this address'

    If anyone ever turns up (and it's unlikely) just explain that 'Mr X no longer lives here and would you kindly now f**k off!'
  • PNPSUKNET
    PNPSUKNET Posts: 4,265 Forumite
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  • fatbelly wrote: »
    Yeah - dodgy debt collection agency - come across them a few times.

    Just keep returning their letters (unopened) maked 'no longer at this address'

    If anyone ever turns up (and it's unlikely) just explain that 'Mr X no longer lives here and would you kindly now f**k off!'

    :D or put them out with a FIRE extinguisher
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  • DarkConvict
    DarkConvict Posts: 6,346 Forumite
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    Return letters as not as this address. You will keep getting letters for months.

    As to visits, if they do show up, just show a tenancy agreement as proof you are not the person they are after.
    Yes, legally you can just shut the door on them, but the idea is to get them to know the guy they want no longer lives here, so get them to stop sending letters.
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  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    F.I.R.E. are just part of Cabot.

    So treat anything from them as if it comes from Cabot.
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