Thanks guys! They've only phoned once since, leaving the same automated message. If they ring again next week I will send them a letter telling them to stop and talk to my provider to see what they can do to block them. I've made note of the dates and times of the calls also. If it doesn't stop I'll send a letter before action.

Hi, Almost every day for the past week I have received automated calls from 1st/first Credit asking for a woman I don't know to ring them. So far they have only rang when I have been out of the house, so they left automated voice mail. I have had my land-line for a while and I get calls for this woman from a different credit provider/debt collection agency every 8 months to a year. It seems that whomever this is repeatedly gets credit and gives a false phone number as according to my phone provider she has never held my number. She doesn't use my address and I have checked my credit rating in the past, so it it just irritating phone calls. Up until now all the agencies and credit providers I have answered the phone to have listened to me and not called again, which I know I have been pretty lucky with. This current lot have only left automated messages and from what comes up on Google they seem to be a bit dodgy. I don't want to ring the number as they are just going to assume I am the woman they are after. I'm not sure whether to try and write to them to tell them to stop ringing without giving them my name or address, or to just ignore it until I get a human on the phone. I don't have a phone with caller ID so I can't tell who it is going to be before I answer it, so it is a bit hard to ignore. Any recommendations?

Hi, this is my first time posting so I hope I've put this in the right place. Today I've received a letter from LCS utility investigations addressed to the occupier/landlord. It states that they are 'investigating the utility supply of my home' and proceed to ask a list of questions - Your Name, date of occupancy, name of previous occupant, forwarding address of the previous occupant, Landlords name, address and phone number and anything else relevant. I've done some research on this outfit and what I've read points to the company working for British Gas, and not actually having any details of the debtor other than the debt and their address - so anyone that responds innocently with the previous tenants details gets chased for the debt instead of them finding the actual debtor. I being about British Gas does make some sense as the previous tenants did switch the service to BG and them upped and left abruptly without closing any accounts and left no forwarding address. The landlord was unaware they switched suppliers, I decided to stay with my suppliers not BG and arranged this all through them - I never spoke once to British Gas. Now there is no way I am giving them my or my partners name - it's just none of their business. Every piece of mail I had for the previous tenants I sent back with "returned to sender - moved away" on the envelope. I can't give them a forwarding address, all I know is that they returned to Libya sometime in February this year - thats all the my Landlord knows. At least they shouldn't be able to ring me as my phone number came with me from my old place and is ex-directory. Currently my plan is to give the letter to my Landlord and tell him to not give them my details to this outfit, then he can contact them as he wishes. Am I going about this the right way? I always seem to have problems caused by other people wherever I live and I just can't take another ride on this merry-go-round.