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Hello.

A letter was recently received at an old UK address (I have been living overseas for 20+ years). It looks suspiciously like a DCA letter, but it is impersonating a real NHS doctor giving me the impression I should call urgently about bronchoscopy results. If I had a bronchoscopy I think I’d remember it. Isn’t this fraud and how should I report this?

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some sort of scam.

pers id just ignore it.

nothing to do with dca's..they chase money..

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

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If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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This could be some fallout from the numerous NHS data breaches?

Scammers have to get inventive when using data like this.

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CFA.NHS.UK

The NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) is a special health authority tasked to lead the fight against fraud, bribery and corruption in the NHS.

There is contact details near the bottom of the webpage on how to report either by phone or a online form.

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Hello again.

Life goes on and I forgot to upload this letter.

Either this is a genuine mistake or a sick attempt at impersonation. With a distant history of DCAs calling up relatives pretending to be a long-lost girlfriend, I'm leaning towards the latter. I've obscured anything relevant including an address I haven't lived at for 30 years, a hospital I've never visited, a GP surgery I've never been registered to, doctors I've never interacted with, a procedure I've never undergone nor a medical condition I don't suffer from. It's curious that there's no return email address.

I'd be grateful for your opinion. I've no intention of calling the 0300 number whatsoever.

Thanks in advance.

 

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Jim,

Why not call the Poole hospital on the legitimate number from their own website 01202 665511?

Explain that you have a letter with a reference number, which doesn't pertain to yourself and let them take it from there....

As Honey Bee points out, there could be a legitimate patient waiting for information that never arrives.

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Scammers often use the name of genuine employees but I'm not sure what to make of it either. Could be a scam, they are setting you up for follow up letters trying to get you to do something perhaps?. Otherwise they aren't asking you to do anything so not clear what the scam would be trying to achieve. A malicious letter trying to frighten you would presumably say that you did have some frightening medical condition, not that everything was seemed to be OK.

It reads quite convincingly as a hospital follow up letter so I'd be inclined to return it to the hospital noting on it what you posted earlier - don't give them your actual current address of course.

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thats a real letter.

probably someone clicked on the wrong name or more probably like name as ethel says.

they're not after money so no worries there!

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

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If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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