Receiving mail at rental house for people we don't know, concerned about fraud?

walter_the_softie

I am so sorry, I have clearly misread your request. Stupid of me!

Her behaviour in asking you to forward a letter was outrageous. Your suspicions are totally justified - you should probably report her to the police.

purple.sarah

walter_the_softie wrote: »

I am so sorry, I have clearly misread your request. Stupid of me!

Her behaviour in asking you to forward a letter was outrageous. Your suspicions are totally justified - you should probably report her to the police.

What's stupid is going to the trouble of setting up a new account just to make fun of me. I have received mostly helpful replies but you have to be rude and sarcastic. I am a real person with a genuine concern about my living situation. I just want to feel secure in my own home. Think about that before making fun of me. You are just making yourself look bad.

It is suspicious that a stranger is having their card sent to my address. Why not use their own if they have nothing to hide?

purple.sarah

Oli.s wrote: »

Maybe the previous tennant rang the land lady to explain he had mistakenley forgot to change his credit card address and that it was mistakenly being sent to his old address so she has asked you to look out for it so it can be passed to him?

I know the previous tenant's name so it's not him. We also haven't received any other mail for this name, just the card. I could buy a previous tenant forgetting to inform some organisations that they had moved but not their bank. My bank was the first organisation I informed to avoid my card or details being sent to the wrong address

Biggles

You don't know what's in it. You don't know why it's been sent to that house. Your landlady is good and you don't want to jeopardise the relationship.

Why would you invent various criminal scenarios when the truth may be innocent? Just pass it on as requested and avoid likely recriminations and huge embarrassment.

thelem

Biggles wrote: »

You don't know what's in it. You don't know why it's been sent to that house. Your landlady is good and you don't want to jeopardise the relationship.

Why would you invent various criminal scenarios when the truth may be innocent? Just pass it on as requested and avoid likely recriminations and huge embarrassment.

Why would there be huge embarrassment? If there is no fraud involved then it will be easy to get it redelivered to the correct address.

walter_the_softie

Purple Sarah, I admit in my second comment I did poke fun at you because you seem not to want to hear any possible other reasons why there might be an innocent explanation, and I accept that wasn't nice or helpful to you.

Life is often not simple, and in general I find the rule holds true that you should not ascribe to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.

As a renter with pets myself, I don't think you realise how lucky you are, and I registered because I didn't want to see someone in a similar situation to my own make a mess of a very good thing.

Given that this really concerns you, why not contact your very nice sounding landlady and make up something along the lines of: 'we had horrid problems in a previous rental due to a previous tenant's financial reputation getting mixed up with ours, and we are petrified of it happening again. For this reason, here is all the mail that has arrived here to date, but from now on (maybe give her two weeks' grace?) we will be returning everything to sender, marked 'unknown at this address. I do you understand'. How about it?

purple.sarah

Biggles wrote: »

You don't know what's in it. You don't know why it's been sent to that house. Your landlady is good and you don't want to jeopardise the relationship.

Why would you invent various criminal scenarios when the truth may be innocent? Just pass it on as requested and avoid likely recriminations and huge embarrassment.

I'm not inventing anything, I'm just saying it's suspicious for someone to have a credit card sent somewhere they don't live. As I've said before I'm not going to accuse my landlady of anything. How would simply returning the letter to sender possibly cause "recriminations and huge embarrassment"? It seems like you are the one inventing things here. If the card holder is innocent as you say, they would simply have to update their address with the sender to have the card resent.

Biggles

purple.sarah wrote: »

How would simply returning the letter to sender possibly cause "recriminations and huge embarrassment"?

I was thinking of when you explain to your landlady why you did that instead of passing the letter to her as she requested.

Mojisola

Biggles wrote: »

I was thinking of when you explain to your landlady why you did that instead of passing the letter to her as she requested.

"Oh no! Did we send back the one you wanted? We've got into the habit of just putting "Not known at the this address" on everything that isn't our post and putting it back in the postbox."

barnaby-bear

Biggles wrote: »

I was thinking of when you explain to your landlady why you did that instead of passing the letter to her as she requested.

Why should she explain anything - just look blank and say "no... no i'm sure we haven't got any post that isn't ours"....