someone fraudulently using my home address to open a bank account!

wems

Hi

Hoping someone can offer some help here. My property is currently empty and is about to be sold at auction next week. Today I received a letter addressed to someone that has never lived at this property. I opened it and it's a visa debit card for a current account that this person has opened with Ffrees bank. I'm concerned that someone is using this address fraudulently which could impact on the sale of the house so any ideas of what I should do please?

TIA

gunsandbanjos

Shouldn't impact your sale, just phone the bank and tell them you received the card to your address. They should sort it out for you.

gamerboy

Return to sender and inform the bank. I have Googled it and I can see it's not an actual bank, it's just a current account with a Visa debit card, I presume that it's a prepaid account?

wems

Thanks both, they put me in touch with Action Fraud so I now have a crime number and it's being dealt with

gamerboy

wems wrote: »

Thanks both, they put me in touch with Action Fraud so I now have a crime number and it's being dealt with

Good, hope you get it sorted

dr_adidas01

wems wrote: »

Hi

Hoping someone can offer some help here. My property is currently empty and is about to be sold at auction next week. Today I received a letter addressed to someone that has never lived at this property. I opened it and it's a visa debit card for a current account that this person has opened with Ffrees bank. I'm concerned that someone is using this address fraudulently which could impact on the sale of the house so any ideas of what I should do please?


Legally your not allowed to open someone else's mail, Under the Postal Services Act 2000!!

You should have scribbled out your address and put on the envelope return to sender, not know at this address.

Receiving someones mail wont impact on the sale of your house at all!

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/contents