Hundreds of parking ticket from excel parking eye and others at my new address

Pendlewitch2005

I have been advised to post on here as i have a problem i dont know how to deal with

About 2 weeks ago i recently completed on the purchase of a house in a small town and moved all my stuff in. 

After being away for a few days clearing out my old flat i come back to find the post man knocking at my door with what i can only describe as a small stack of post .

In it was over 400 letters all with different names on.  Some peoples name and some company names.  

I put them to one side having started a new job, over the next few days i come home to literally hundreds more 

Over 2 weeks i have several thousand letters and feel rather overwhelmed

I manage to speak to the postman and ask him what is going on and he says he has been delivering this volume of mail for the last 18 months 

So i open quite a large number of them and they are from companies like Excel Parking Ltd, Parking Eye Ltd Smart Parking Ltd.  There are also parking tickets from different councils and speeding tickets.  I have also seem some log books from the dvla and letters from debt collectors

I contact my solicitor who i brought the house through and the estate agent to get hold of the person who sold me the house and they have asked the couple to get in contact as I have no forwarding address or phone number.  They said when they were selling it that they were moving abroad (i dont know where)

I have literally no idea what to do now and literally piles and piles of mail 

To top it of i had a bailiff turn up today looking for some one but said he had been here before 

My friends say it must be a scam and someone said it sounds like a mailbox address which i dont really understand

What can I do ?? 

help!!!!!!

Car1980

Someone's using your house as a fake driver address base by the sounds of it.

The best thing would probably be to sit down and find the email address and Data Protection Officer email address for each of the parking companies, councils, DVLA etc and send them each a templated letter stating that the address is being fraudulently named to them and that they need to erase your data under the GDPRs.

You'll need to construct the letter properly and you might even considering paying your solicitor to write up the letter for you.

You could do with some expert guidance from someone with good knowledge of the GDPRs to advise what to say because you will need to include a financial threat because it's very likely they'll just ignore you and your torrent of mail will only reduce to a strong flow with it being such an automated system. A case of doing it once and doing it right I'm afraid.

Pendlewitch2005

Do you think i should get proper legal advice?
How can some register cars with the dvla if they dont live here, how does that work ?
The postman told me the previous occupants did it as some professional occupation and they charged people a monthly fee to use this address like they didn't care if people knew
stressed and angry

James_Poisson

Pendlewitch2005 said:

Do you think i should get proper legal advice?
How can some register cars with the dvla if they dont live here, how does that work ?
The postman told me the previous occupants did it as some professional occupation and they charged people a monthly fee to use this address like they didn't care if people knew
stressed and angry

There was a post on here some time ago about a set up like this where people registered their car with some dodgy people at a fake address so they were no longer the keeper, I have an idea that was in Scotland though. The regulars on here warned the poster to steer clear.

I would report this to Action Fraud. 

born_again

Start sending them back as not know at this address.

ChirpyChicken

born_again said:

Start sending them back as not know at this address.

Unfortunately for a lot of companies that does not make any difference since they are just electronic mail firms who send out letters on behalf of various parking firms and others.  Only really works where the return address is the same as the actual organisation

ChirpyChicken

James_Poisson said:

Pendlewitch2005 said:

Do you think i should get proper legal advice?
How can some register cars with the dvla if they dont live here, how does that work ?
The postman told me the previous occupants did it as some professional occupation and they charged people a monthly fee to use this address like they didn't care if people knew
stressed and angry

There was a post on here some time ago about a set up like this where people registered their car with some dodgy people at a fake address so they were no longer the keeper, I have an idea that was in Scotland though. The regulars on here warned the poster to steer clear.

I would report this to Action Fraud. 

https://registeredkeeper.co.uk/ 
They dont use a fake address as such and it does seem an expensive scheme!

Car1980

Pendlewitch2005 said:

Do you think i should get proper legal advice?
How can some register cars with the dvla if they dont live here, how does that work ?
The postman told me the previous occupants did it as some professional occupation and they charged people a monthly fee to use this address like they didn't care if people knew
stressed and angry

I would just post your problem on Legal Beagles. You need all these companies to delete your data - which is your legal right - so that your address is not on their system so it becomes impossible for them to post you letters. 

There is a right way to do this under the GDPRs (and penalties for companies who fail to follow your demand). So you could do with a data protection expert. I'm sure there will be knowledgeable people on Legal Beagles.

Pendlewitch2005

People on leagle beagles have told me to contact the bpa and ipc , a user called kaizen on here has messaged me and saying he can contact influential people in the parking industry
I managed to ring the Dvla and they have not been much help 

Car1980

Kaizen works for the enemy, but I'm sure he won't mind me saying that.

He has brought up the subject of black lists before. Although they don't seem very effective if they can send hundreds of letters to one address and not notice.

If he's on a WhatsApp group with the parking companies he could theoretically tell them to blacklist your address.

Worth a try to see if some of the letters dry up at least.

Le_Kirk

Pendlewitch2005 said:

People on leagle beagles have told me to contact the bpa and ipc , a user called kaizen on here has messaged me and saying he can contact influential people in the parking industry
I managed to ring the Dvla and they have not been much help 

Was that @Kaizen2024