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  1. I have no idea who the woman is (the surname sounds French at least), and no idea what the debt relates to. One of the debt agencies on the automated messages was speaking out the outstanding debt, so the only reason I know how much it is for. Ahh okay, will avoid calling them!
  2. It's the SIM bound to the phone number, the phone is mine from brand new, now on its 3rd upgrade with the number.
  3. Hi all, Had a persistent problem with multiple debt agencies over the last 4 years in particular constantly calling my mobile phone. Within a week of getting the number, I was getting debt collection agencies calling asking for a woman (obviously the numbers previous owner) as she owed just over a couple of hundred quid. I call them, tell them that they have the wrong number, they usually ignore the first time, 2nd or 3rd call usually stops the phone calls. UNTIL! The problem is, these blasted debt agencies seem to sell the debt, and I get a new debt collection agency contacting me yearly. Call them, get peace and quiet for half a year or so, debt gets sold, and back to square one again! Currently, it's PRA Group, who are enjoying literally riddling my voicemail inbox asking it to press option 1 (blocked the number on my phone). It's also making it a pain in the backside to filter through for genuine voicemails. Now to be quite frank, I'm sick and tired of having to call these companies to get some peace and quiet. And have not rung up the number as this will be another set of 2 or 3 phone calls to say get lost. As they say, time is money, and to be quite frank, it feels like I am being harassed now. I feel almost inclined to send in an invoice for my time dealing with this debt that has precisely nothing to do with me! It's become quite evident, that regardless of phone calls to get the debt collectors to stop calling, this will go on as long as I have the phone number due to the industry practice of selling the debts. My real question is, what kind of recourse do I have to get these to stop? Ultimately, this toxic asset needs to be written off before I'm left alone as far as I can tell. Surely they have to have some form of an onus to prove the person they are contacting is the debtor, before contacting? Any advice would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance! P.S. Just to add, changing my phone number is obviously the first idea, but in all fairness, why the hell should I have to?
  4. Touching wood something soonish! Hopefully get a reasonable resolution!
  5. Hi, I've been having a tortuous time with Vodafone the last few months, it initially started at the tail end of November, when my phone inexplicably had no signal, reboots the lot, no luck. After 3 phone calls to Vodafone it was finally established a cancellation request was made by me (?!?!?! most certainly wasn't!), for the phone number. It took a further 2 weeks of constant phone calls before I eventually got onto someone who appeared to know what they were doing, and 24 hours later the phone was working again. HOWEVER, it has yet again happened, on the 21st of this month. The number was yet again deactivated, and my phone is now unusable once again. And has been for the last week, in total I've had 3 weeks without service. I really cannot continue with this level of service unreliability, as I've had to buy Skype credit (so the issue is now is financially damaging) to make phone calls. I'm at a bit of a loss what to do, when I call up, I've gotten to the point where I know the customer services advisor im talking to has absolutely no clue what is going on, and is effectively passing the buck when saying it will be active within 2 or 3 days. I'm now saying, look I know you have no idea what to do, can you pass me onto someone who does. Even the next person i'm passed onto is clueless! I'm rather at the end of my tether, and ideally if i can terminate the contract and move onto someone else who can actually provide a reliable service i'm quite happy to do that. But suspect that Vodafone would moan and threaten the early termination charge even though as far as I am aware, the contract is currently being breached by themselves. They specifically state a reasonable time period within the contract, although this really does not give any indication, I would think when I am told by a customer services advisor (have recorded phone call), that it will be 2 days (or the 10's of other occasions where different time frames have been given), that this is the reasonable time period. So in a nut shell, I have a dead phone, with no resolution on the horizon as I've been unable to get to the chaps who know what they are doing. I'm really not quite sure where to go from here! Any advice would be most appreciated! Thanks!
  6. In fact I didn't actually have a tenancy at the house, as my mother passed away and the tenancy couldn't be succeeded due to some very queer technicality in the law (reason I had to move). I rung up and notified Eon at the time that she had passed and I plodded along for 6 months or so in contact with the local MP's office who had a very tough time getting time to sit down with the head of the council that handled these things (in regards to succeeding the tenancy), it went through various legal teams before a decision was made and I was very much left in limbo to say the least! Eon simply moved the bills over into my name, and I continued to put money on the machines to make sure the house was hot and had electric!
  7. Hi! Somewhat confused about the situation I have with a bill from Eon. I moved out of a house that used a pre payment meter roughly 15 months ago, and into a new property which I've been paying via Direct Debit. The supplier was initially British Gas whom I moved away from and back to Eon - the Tesco Club card points are a big win! However, this past December (roughly ~ 14 months later) I received a bill from Eon asking for a low triple figure sum as a final payment for that address. This striked me as odd at the time as I used a pre payment meter and wanted to chase it up with Eon, which I totally forgot about if I'm honest with you as was rather hectic! Today however, I received another letter which jogged my memory! I've had a quick look around the internet about backdated payments being asked from suppliers and noticed that there are some regulations regarding that beyond the 12 month point. I had absolutely no clue I owed any money whatsoever, and as far as I was concerned all matters were settled with that address so haven't tried to contact them (which is part of the regulation I believe). The date on the letter for the end of the charge period is also + 15 days after I moved out, which was another reason for wanting to contact them! So my question is it worth coughing up the cash and settling it? Or is there some grounds to make a complaint? Thanks!
  8. Hi there, New to the forums but always find quite a lot of interesting reading. Recently, I have been receiving calls and text messages from motormile finance, regarding a debt for some woman (I have no idea who she is). I have debts like most, but are all well within my means and my credit profile reflects this! I have sent them a couple of emails telling them i'm the wrong person, and it has been ignored. I'm not prepared to call them as it mentions about a premium rate number. I'm at a loss of what to do really, they call all times of the day (while im at work, in work related meetings of all things as well), and quite frankly its royally p***ing me off. I can't really see where else to go other than reporting them to the Police for harassment, I have kept all text messages and any voice mails they have left as evidence. Can anyone suggest what I should do to stop this? Thanks for your help, Adam
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