I have had recent had letters from Orange, O2 and Vodafone confirming new mobile accounts and insurance for new mobile contracts.
These have nothing to do with me and are confirmed fraud by the mobile companies concerned.
What is interesting is that the name address and date of birth info has been correctly used but the Bank Account details that DDs have been set up on are not mine so I assume who ever has these may have been getting DDs onto their accounts.
I though oh well and I will do a credit check on myself in a couple of weeks to see what it has recorded about this.
I then discovered someone else locally who has had the same problem.
So is it just two of us of have other people recently had the same problem ?
I also don’t understand how a credit check could be done on a correct address but incorrect bank account ?
I assume the motive is to get hold of a valuable smart phone to sell on ?
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I suspect fraud either at the GPO sorting office here, or the mobile phone company's carrier, or both.
It's unbelievable that they are able to do this, and they don't care - in my case fraud investigators from Orange and T-mobile didn't return calls and they certainly don't seem to carry out any proper investigations, and neither will the police. I found that someone had changed my 'address' to a block of flats in Barking - but it was me who had to write the correspondence to get it deleted, I even had to send documents to prove that I don't live there.
It's really another case of 'stuff the customer'.
It will happen to you and when it does, my advice is to get an account with Experian or one of the other credit reference agencies (doesn't cost much and worth the expense) who will tip you off if someone uses your name and address, and are very helpful at sorting out the mess.
It;s high time the law was changed to make mobile phone companies responsible for mis-selling phones without proper checks. In my opinion, they're about as complicit in the identity theft fraud as the criminals!
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