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help - house sale gone wrong

cantwaittomove · 2007-01-02 21:45:22

My house sale (and purchase) fell through last month, sadly I am back to the start again with my house back on the market after spending a small fortune on fees and solicitors etc. :( We received some post for the new buyers, which they never collected. Curiosity got the better of us and we decided to open the post – it…

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silvercar Posts: 50,821 Ambassador

3 January 2007 at 6:42PM

If they were planning anything dodgy, they would have used your address and paid for the Royal Mail redirection service to forward the mail onto them without you knowing anything about it.

Without you knowing anything about it apart from the letter from Royal Mail telling you that a redirection had been started for certain names (unless they set up a second redirection for all mail addressed to someone with surname "Occupier" first name "The")

I was trying to say that if anyone was planning on using your address fraudulently, they wouldn't have deliberately left all the correspondence to come to you.

We moved in the Summer and it has come to light that the previous owners are still deliberately using this address and then have used Royal Mail to forward mail on. I only found out when baliffs started knocking on the door.

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