This takes the biscuit!

[DrVonPatak]

More a WWYD?

Just opened my post today to find a letter from the council fining me £100 for apparently being caught not picking up after my dog. If not paid immediately, it could go up to £1000.

Here's the catch... I don't have a dog. I have a cat that refuses to step outside due to trauma prior to being rehomed by us. My vet can vouch for this. None of my visitors ever showed up with a dog, so that can't be it. Normally this is quite a tidy area, can't remember seeing any fouling recently.

Not sure what to do?

They only need to know a name that's linked to an address, surely?

We are all susceptible to scams. Thinking that we are not puts us more at risk. I too nearly fell for one .

I now assume anything and everything is a scam nor do I answer the phone other than to check my recorded messages.

OP you are now a known target.

Are you on the electoral roll OP?

Have you lived in your house long enough to still be in a phone book?

[ I imagine millennials scratching their little heads and asking "what's a phone book?"]

If you have a local forum I would post this, or stick it on FB or something - there are very vulnerable people in our communities who are being preyed on by people like this.

I wonder if all the rude people on here as just as rude in rl or are just brave from a distance!!

On the scammer subject I've just had a call from an 01958 number, 'BT' informing me that the broadband at my IPS address would be disconnected, I needed to Press 1........... That's when I disconnected the call.
Just giving a heads up to others , it's doing the rounds apparently.

Thanks for the heads up, OP. I do have a dog, so may well have fallen for it, even though I always clean up.

Ignore the rude posters who have only ever done exactly the right thing at the right time before . And posting about a problem like this is absolutely a good idea: if you believed it to be true, then you may have got some good advice on how to deal with the council.
As it is, you’ve warned others about a scam, just as worthwhile.

Someone has got the idea from the recent episodes of Coronation St.

Why do you have your address on your CV? Absolutely no need to - a phone number and email address are fine for contacting you. Just put your town if you think your location is important to the job.

Op, a warning thread in The Dog House might be a good shout too.

How was it asking you to pay?

@cliques

Electoral roll, of course!

But there's really is no need to be like that, I imagine there's a thing or two us millenials could teach you too.

@Daftspunk

I had my CV professionally revised, it was among the suggestions. I'll have to rethink it now.

@Dontvisitme

There was a bank transfer section. I guess that should have told me everything. Ah, well, you learn something new every day!