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Stella1973

My son has received an email from Lowell 'we are trying to connect with .........(ME), if this email address doesn't belong to ...........(ME) please let us know so we can update our records.

My son is fuming as to how they have his personal email address?.  I have had a small debt years ago which Lowell handled but the debt is statue barred as citizen's have clarified this.  My son hasn't lived with me for 10years so how they have obtained this under the GDPR

any advice would be appreciated. 

fatbelly

Who knows?

The general rule is to ignore emails anyway so just mark it as spam

sourcrates

Data is shared, or sold often, its big business, they will have paid for a list of contact details, and tried to match the list to you, or vice versa, one of the many ways a DCA tries to trace you.

The only thing you need to respond to is a good old fashioned letter, unless or until they can be bothered to write to you, I`m with fatbelly.

Brie

Are your names similar?  If so it might just be a computer generated email.  So if you are Stella Smith and son is Stanley Smith and he has an email address of STSMITH@email.com it could be that a computer can tell that it's a real email (not that difficult) and there may be a possibility they're going for the right person.  Chances are they have also targeted SSMITH, STESMITH, etc

But as others say - tell him to ignore it.  If they start to sound threatening he can always send them a letter (not ring them) to tell them to get lost.