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help geek squad insurance letter for person who doesnt live at address?
sellingmysoul666
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I have received a letter today addressesed to someone who has never lived at my address. We have owned the house from new 14 years ago.
I rang the freephone number and informed them or their error. They didn't seem that concerned & suggested the postcode had been input in error! I was advised to put the letter back in the post endorsed not known at this address.
I asked how I checked if the person had taken a mobile phone contact out at our address as well. He put me on hold when he came back he said he couldn't say due to "data protection" and suggested I ring all the mobile phone companies myself!!
This is not something I am willing to do.
I could maybe do a credit check on our address but has anyone else been in this situation and what did you do?
Thanks in advance
I rang the freephone number and informed them or their error. They didn't seem that concerned & suggested the postcode had been input in error! I was advised to put the letter back in the post endorsed not known at this address.
I asked how I checked if the person had taken a mobile phone contact out at our address as well. He put me on hold when he came back he said he couldn't say due to "data protection" and suggested I ring all the mobile phone companies myself!!
This is not something I am willing to do.
I could maybe do a credit check on our address but has anyone else been in this situation and what did you do?
Thanks in advance
"what lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us" Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If it's only the address that is the same, not the name, you have nothing to worry about.0
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Your address does not have a credit history.
Credit is attached to a person, it is a contract, a house can not sign contracts.Be happy...;)0 -
Yup as stated, a credit score is assigned to a person not an address. One of the biggest myths going that. So you have no real issues.
I think it's probably input error like they said. If they had taken out a phone contract at your address the chances are you'd be receiving bills and taken delivery of the handset.0
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