Identity theft

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I’m hoping someone may be able to give advice or has experience of this and knows what we need to do at this point because I’m desperate. This may not be the right place for it but I don’t know where else to go. My partners identity has been stolen and is being used to open businesses in his name, making him director, secretary and person with significant control. Each time it happens we have to contact action fraud to get a crime number and complete forms on Companies House to tell them that this has been done without his consent. We apparently can’t have the person with significant control removed without a court order and have been told to get our own legal advice on that (who knows how much this will cost?!) We’ve been told by Companies House that anyone can do this in his name due to current legislation and basically there’s nothing they can do about it. It keeps happening! Not to mention the letters also telling us that bank accounts have been opened or applications have been made for credit. We’ve put a stop to that side of things so anyone who tries to open an account will be rejected eventually when they do the credit check (including my partner who now also gets rejected for things as a result)
Does anyone know of anything we can do to put a stop to all of this? It’s so frustrating getting letters to our address with new businesses that he’s never opened!
Does anyone know of anything we can do to put a stop to all of this? It’s so frustrating getting letters to our address with new businesses that he’s never opened!
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It will provide information that may be useful.
To Action Fraud?
To the three main credit report agencies? (Experian, Equifax, TransUnion)?
And have you contacted CIFAS? Information in this link to ICO - https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/identity-theft/
Scroll down to where it says "What can I do if I'm the victim of identity theft?"
"Contact CIFAS (the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service) to apply for protective registration. Once you have registered you should be aware that CIFAS members will carry out extra checks to see when anyone, including you, applies for a financial service, such as a loan, using your address."
CIFAS link here - https://www.cifas.org.uk/
I do hope that some of this information is helpful, it's a terrible situation for your partner to be in.
the main thing is that you don’t lose any money
what do the police say?
https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/faq#what-happens-to-my-report-once-has-it-been-made-to-action-fraud