I am very worried about the above and would appreciate some advice please.
The have been two incidents that I am aware of:
- in Feb we received letters from two different mobile phone companies (neither of which we use) addressed to a name very similar to my husband's name and at our exact address. In both cases the person had got two phones and associated insurance and listed themselves as living them here. I immediately phoned the companies involved, phone contracts were cancelled and their fraud depts started investigating. As neither the name nor the bank details given were ours we suffered no financial loss and the fraudster just got a couple of weeks free phone usage. Seems to be over.
- Yesterday my husband received a call saying that 2 different people had tried to register for postal voting fron our address this week (and that 6 other people had made similar fraudulent applications this week). So again our address but totally different names (different from in 1) ) and no financial loss.
I know this is not identity fraud in that not someone claiming to be me or my husband exactly, but I am worried and would appreciate any thoughts
advice. Thank you!
(I do recycle our paperwork but tear addresses and personal details off things and rip up those bits small. Am careful re unsolicited calls etc).