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  1. If the DCA was pursuing the wrong person in the first place, it wouldn't be fraud. If they looking for a John Augustus Smith but they're writing to every John Smith in the country only stating John (no middle name) Smith, that person replying to the effect that they're John Carmichael Smith doesn't make them any more or less the wrong person than they are already. We know that DCAs target people with the same name on a mass basis, and it's widely thought that they probably aren't fussy about which one's they manage to fool into coughing up, or even if multiple people do so. God forbid anyone actually tries to catch them out in this practice, if it really is happening....
  2. An allegation of what, exactly? Catching out unscrupulous DCAs at their own game?
  3. You could always provide them with false details (different DOB, fictitious middle name/s, etc.), then complain to the regulators when then send you a fraudulent demand based on them!
  4. You said the debt was incurred in 2005 and they 'caught up' with you in 2012. Obviously that was seven years, but when was the actual default date?
  5. Actually, for packages requiring a Customs payment, generally the recipient will not be contacted byHMRC direct. What normally happens is that the courier/Royal Mail pays the charges on the recipent's behalf, and then recouping it from them upon delivery, usually slapping on an overly inflated a "admin charge" in the process.
  6. You didn't think you were liable for even what you thought would be the "days" between taking possession and tenant moving in? Surely the builder will have been using electricirty at least during the refurbishment, whether that had been actually been "days" or longer? The last two rental properties we've lived in, the first thing we did on moving in was to get the meter readings to establish that we were only paying for the utilities from when we first got through the door, and weren't copping for anything the landlord was liable for.
  7. But what about the period between you taking possession of the property and it being refurbished, and the tenant actually moving in? You've also not said whether this is for gas, electricity, or both. If your tenant is also using Eon, that might explain why her name has been linked to the old account, and those details passed on to the DCA. You probably need to be speaking to Eon, rather than playing Chinese whispers through the DCA.
  8. This all sounds a bit messy. Writerchris, I presume that Eon are still the supply to the property - hence they linked the dead occupier with your new tenant - but was there a period when the bill was in your name between the two? Do the letters actually address the new tenant as if the debt is hers?
  9. So did you ever actually have any dealings with Littlewoods? Years ago Cabot tried to claim my wife had an outstanding debt to the company, even though she'd never had an account with them.
  10. Cabot used to send out letters signed "Sam Selby," or at least they did in 2006.
  11. No, they would need eight: No one was at home/letter No one was at home/letter/signature required No one was at home/parcel No one was at home/parcel/signature required No access to building/letter No access to building/letter/signature required No access to building/parcel No access to building/parcel/signature required I'll get me coat....
  12. They'll probably claim that they carry copies of all possible pre-printed variations!
  13. If your leave year ran from April to March, and you left in late-August, you would only have accrued around 40% of your leave entitlement. If for example your total leave for the year was 20 days, that's eight days accrued by late-May. You said you took "3 weeks between April and May." If that was in a single chunk, it would be 15 days less the May Day Bank Holiday, so 14 days in all. That would mean that you took six days more than the eight you had accrued by the time you left in late-August. You would therefore owe the company your salary for those six days. The flipside would have been that if you hadn't taken any leave, then they would owe you six days pay, or the time as early release in lieu of notice. This is all fairly standard practice. Under normal circumstances they should have deducted the overpayment from your final salary payment, but if you left suddenly there might not have been time for payroll to do that.
  14. So they dated a letter for last Tuesday, but it didn't arrive until Saturday, and want payment by tomorrow? Clearly unreasonable. Have you spoke to Bromley yet? This page on the Bromley website deals with liability orders - it looks like a large chunk of what is being asked for is charges relating to the LO, rather than the supposed CT arrears themselves.
  15. Have you clearly stated to JBW the date on which you vacated the property? The way you've worded it in your posts could be taken as a claim that you never lived there at all. As others have suggested, you really should be speaking to Bromley about this as soon as possible, explaining the exact circumstances, because it sounds like the landlord didn't transfer the CT into their own name when you left, although you really should have told them you were leaving yourself. Presumably you can still name the landlord, even if they are no longer in the country? Land Registry records should back up who actually owned the property at the time*. As has been said, you'll probably have to go down the route of a Statutory Declaration if you really don't have any documentary evidence of your address change (e.g. bank or employment records, utility bills, etc.). * If you put the address into one of the historic house price websites, you should be able to work out if the property has been sold since you moved out.
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