When this Company Zinc contacted me (they seem to have taken this from MH) the womna wanted my address and date of birth before she could talk about "my account" with them. She got a bit stroppy when I told her that as I didn't have an "account" with them I was not going to divulge that information. She called back again two days afterwards, and said the same thing, to which I replied that the information was confidential and none of her business. That seemed to put her off for a week or two, but they called while i was out last week. She will get the same response if she calls again.

Statute barred even

Should I tell them that it is staute barred or just tell them to go away?

Further to my above posting, Mackenzie Hall seemed to disappear, but last week I received a letter from Zinc Collections about the same thing. Thay then phoned yesterday as they said they wanted to discuss "my account" with them but in order to do so I had to give them my full date of birth "under the Consumer Protection Act". I told the woman that as I did not have an account with them the information she wanted was none of her business, at which point she got rather stroppy and hung up. I doubt if I have heard the last of these people, but I have not acknowledged this so-called debt from apparently 2002, and wonder if my rights have changed since my original posting.

Thank you, I was hoping that was the situation, should I tell them that or just simply continue to ignore them?

Hello, I have just joined this Site and am particularly interested in this Mackenzie Hall stuff as they have been "contacting" me. Basically, I was wrongly billed by a Company called People's Phone in 2002, they were trying to get about £400 for a phone bill, which was impossible for me to have run up as they had switched my Bill to Emergency numbers only some weeks before and I had already switched to BT. I moved to the USA and lived there from 2002 to late 2004, and received letters from Solicitors and Debt Collectors, which I returned saying that I did not recognise them or the debt. Over the past couple of years I have been pestered by Mackenzie Hall over the same thing, but have simply told them verbally and bya scribbled note that I do not recognise them or their jurisdiction in respect of a debt that doesn't exist. Should I do anything more? I never answer the house phone to them any more or answer their letters.