My property addressed being misused possible credit fraud.

MoneyMoney

Hi.

So I have a flat and have been here for several years and know the ownership of both my flat and the one upstairs going back more than a decade.

Recently I started receiving correctly addressed bills to someone I have never heard of (mobile phone bills) I simply marked them not known at this address and dropped them at the post office. Well since then I have gotten a broadband package and today an engineer turned up to do the install. My concern is that this is not the first time, we often receive bank letters etc for people that have never lived here. They are all correctly addressed. My concern is that my address will go down in credit reports badly as these must be fraudulent. I am assuming people are trying to use the address to either scam a bank or get a credit history. I never open any letters and would refuse to sign for anything I don't know the name of but still they keep coming. Two questions, is there any risk to my credit history, how can I protect myself.

Thanks in advance!

[Deleted User]

Your address doesn't have a credit report. Only you.

It will have no impact.

Candyapple

Credit checks are undertaken against people, not addresses so nothing to worry about. Just keep doing what you are doing in chucking the incorrect post.

More than likely if you live in a flat, it's a case of the company noting the address down incorrectly/it showing up on their system wrong. As an example, I currently live in a house on a road e.g 10 Fleet Street, however there is a flat 10 also on the road; Flat 10, Fleet Street, so sometimes I get post for that person delivered to my address despite clearly living in a house and not a flat.

I hardly suspect someone would go to the trouble of wanting broadband and sending them to the wrong address.

MoneyMoney

It is a maisonette, I am sure that it is this a dress not a mistake. Anyway I was under the impression that as part of a credit check they would look for bad credit against your address I guess that was wrong?

Thanks!

[Deleted User]

MoneyMoney wrote: »

I guess that was wrong?

You guess right.

MoneyMoney

My assumption was not that they wanted broadband but they wanted utility bills in their name etc... but if it can't impact me I will just refuse packages and return mail via post office.

Thanks.