Help we are getting speeding prosecution notices for someone else

Crater

vikingaero wrote: »

It's all very well returning mail when a meathead bailiff appears on your doorstep demanding money. Despite rules and regulations not all bailiffs are reasonable and honest. All they care about is getting their bonus.

Send ONE recorded signed for letter to the ticketing office. Tell them in writing that the car has been fraudulently registered at your address. Tell them to cease and desist with all letters and that you will charge them £150 per letter received. Allow them permission to sent one letter to acknowledge this.

That is a very interesting suggestion, thank you. I know this can work with banks ... not sure how it would go down with Police but I will definitely keep this in mind.

My Mum (95) said, tell the police! I said, this IS the Police.

What can you do?

shaun_from_Africa

glentoran99 wrote: »

Would never get to that stage, and if by some fluke it did as soon as you show you aren't that person they go away

Why do you think it wouldn't get to that stage?
As they are speeding tickets and not things such as private parking "fines", they are government issued and much more likely to be followed up on.
Even if it doesn't happen this month or even this year, if it's not sorted out then the fines will keep coming and sooner or later it may end up with one of the private parking companies getting involved and sending people around.

If the owner of the vehicle concerned keeps getting away with it, they may progress to other forms of fraud by using the OP's address.

For the sake of opening a few letters and informing the relevant bodies of what is happening, it could save a lot of hassle in the future,

glentoran99

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Why do you think it wouldn't get to that stage?
As they are speeding tickets and not things such as private parking "fines", they are government issued and much more likely to be followed up on.
Even if it doesn't happen this month or even this year, if it's not sorted out then the fines will keep coming and sooner or later it may end up with one of the private parking companies getting involved and sending people around.

If the owner of the vehicle concerned keeps getting away with it, they may progress to other forms of fraud by using the OP's address.

For the sake of opening a few letters and informing the relevant bodies of what is happening, it could save a lot of hassle in the future,

They are government issued so its not going to end up with a private parking company, The OP has tried ringing and they still keep coming, Your "threat" of charging £150 per letter is nonsense plain and simple,


Worst case it goes to court, a summons arrives, OP says and proves its not them, end of story, baliffs aren't going to be coming round removing goods

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I had someone use my name and address to register a car. The first thing I did was ring the police, but they couldn't have cared less, so I wrote to the DVLA. That put an end to it, so I didn't get any penalty letters.

Aretnap

vikingaero wrote: »

Tell them... that you will charge them £150 per letter received.

Don't bother doing this bit. It just marks you out as an idiot.

forgotmyname

Did you receive the logbook? A friend had similar issues. They initially sent the V5 back, then when that didnt stop it i suggested they SORN the vehicles or tick the box marked exported or scrapped and return them.

Oddly the V5C's stopped arriving after that. Seems whoever it was had bought several cars at auction and used their address and picked up parking tickets and speeding fines.

agrinnall

Shamsan wrote: »

That is for the Log Book. The people who deal with "tickets" though apparently have no interest in what the DVLA thinks - they just plough on regardless with whatever is easiest.

Where do you think they get the address from? It's from the DVLA. If the tickets are being issued against the registration number, which they almost certainly are, then they will stop, probably immediately as I doubt whether police forces keep their own records - the exception would be if they send reminders and reuse the same address.

Robisere

Write to the Chief Constable of your county constabulary, tell him exactly what has happened. The ticket issuing office will get a kick in the pants and you will get an apology. Before someone tells me how dumb this is: I have done exactly that in a similar situation. It worked.

Silver-Surfer_2

Robisere wrote: »

Write to the Chief Constable of your county constabulary, tell him exactly what has happened. The ticket issuing office will get a kick in the pants and you will get an apology. Before someone tells me how dumb this is: I have done exactly that in a similar situation. It worked.

No one will get a kick in the pants as they've done nothing wrong.

straighttalker

vikingaero wrote: »

It's all very well returning mail when a meathead bailiff appears on your doorstep demanding money. Despite rules and regulations not all bailiffs are reasonable and honest. All they care about is getting their bonus.

Send ONE recorded signed for letter to the ticketing office. Tell them in writing that the car has been fraudulently registered at your address. Tell them to cease and desist with all letters and that you will charge them £150 per letter received. Allow them permission to sent one letter to acknowledge this.

How exactly would they enforce their levy of £150 per letter received?