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Advice re possible address fraud, please.
Retriever470
Posts: 1 Newbie
in Credit cards
We moved into our current house 5 years ago. Over the following 18 months, we were regularly hassled by collecting companies chasing the previous owners. In the end we had to get a solicitor's letter to say when we had moved in and stating that the debts were not ours.
I thought it had all settled down until a BT new account letter addressed to our address arrived a couple of weeks ago. It had been taken out by the former owner under a slightly amended surname but giving our address as the account address. I know it was him because he gave his email address which happens to have his true surname in it.
How do I find out if this person is using our address for fraudulent purposes and if our address has a poor credit rating which is nothing to do with us, please?
I thought it had all settled down until a BT new account letter addressed to our address arrived a couple of weeks ago. It had been taken out by the former owner under a slightly amended surname but giving our address as the account address. I know it was him because he gave his email address which happens to have his true surname in it.
How do I find out if this person is using our address for fraudulent purposes and if our address has a poor credit rating which is nothing to do with us, please?
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I would ring BT, and the police.0
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Agreed, report it, at least to BT. But it won't have an impact on your address. Only people have credit ratings, not homes.0
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Check your credit reports, if there's nothing on there there is no problem, credit is on a person not an address.0
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