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just need a lil vent!

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Grammaretto Sat 06-Apr-19 10:33:25

How very annoying. Why should you have to do anything.
However it is common enough.
We've lived in our house for over 40years and we are still listed officially by the Post Office as the house next door which was demolished about 1970.
We have told them enough times.
Luckily no bad credit ratings follow us but we cannot understand why something so simple and obvious can't be changed.
The electoral roll has been updated I think.

mumofmadboys Sat 06-Apr-19 10:20:41

It will not affect your credit rating so don't worry.

PamelaJ1 Sat 06-Apr-19 09:53:56

Nowhere near as bad as you but, even as I write,
I have a letter in the kitchen addressed to the daughter of the previous owner of this house.
We have passed this correspondence on to the previous owner, to his other DD and returned them to the company.
All to no avail.
I've written in big red letters on this one and will pop it back in the post, again!!!
I think that it's about the money that the government gave to babies at one time so I presume there is a child somewhere who is owed something.
Can't think that there is any more I can do and it's irritating but it's as nothing compared to your horror story fizzes.
Good luck

MamaCaz Sat 06-Apr-19 09:53:51

That is terrible. Most worryingly, it might even affect your credit rating!

jenpax Sat 06-Apr-19 09:51:39

I suggest getting a copy of your
Credit reports from Experian and Equifax to see if there are any financial associations shown on your own report also request that a fraud marker is noted so that lenders can see that it is not you with the poor credit. I am a little puzzled how the person has managed to accrue debts without any previous post going to your address though ?

EllanVannin Sat 06-Apr-19 09:49:50

CAB, or a solicitor. I couldn't live with this going on, poor you.

sodapop Sat 06-Apr-19 09:45:56

Oh dear that's not good fizzers are you sure you are not being targeted.

fizzers Sat 06-Apr-19 09:31:06

I've lived in my present house for well over 20 years, on my own, apart from my daughter , who is now grown up and has her own home. approx 5 years ago I started getting mail for someone who I don't know , so I would put not at this address and repost. This would happen every now and again, every couple of months would get a letter for this person, would write on it and repost. So the other night , on locking up I find a card through the door stating that debt collectors had been to discuss a debt ( for the person, not me). Seething I was and rang up and blasted this company over the phone, hopefully that's the end of that because to be honest I don't know what to do next.

Move forward to 3 years ago and I change my mobile contract supplier, within days I'm getting phone calls and texts from banks and debt collecting agencies for sme woman who obviously had a lot of debts, it got so bad I had to threaten Lloyds with the banking ombudsman and I had to go and buy a phone that had the facility to block numbers, it seems to have stopped now

move forward again to last year and I change my TV/broadband supplier and get a new phone number, yeah you guessed it, I've started getting calls for the previous owner of the number, seems they haven't settled their debts either!

I must be most unlucky!