Company registered to wrong address

[PyjamasToMyRight]

My mum bought her house 3 years ago and has sometimes had questionable post from one former occupant. A sudden flurry of letters addressed to a company now and we’ve found he’s very recently registered a company to her address.

I’ve completed the companies house form to dispute a company address.

I’ve got a letter ready to send to this man (via the only forwarding address we have which is his father I think) to say anything more and I’ll report to Action Fraud. I’ve told my mum to pass all post to me and I’ll return it to sender - I think it’s junk mail mostly in the new company’s name but can’t be sure. If anything comes from a bank I’ll send it to their fraud team address.

Does anyone know of anything else I should do? I could report to Action Fraud straight away, but they’d presumably wait for Companies House to deal with it, and I’ve never been aware of them actually following up any low level fraud we report at work.

Thanks.

There are some threads on the same topic with good advice, as it's surprisingly easy to set up a company without having to prove you even live in the UK, so can be a first step to taking out loans in the company name, or other fraud.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4573288-stranger-registered-company-to-my-house?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

At a minimum, on top of what you have already done, I would personally register with a credit-checking service such as checkmyfile for a few months, and also with Land Registry alerts. That is a free service, and will send automatic notifications the minute anyone does a legal search or starts any other process to try and sell or re-mortgage the property/properties that you have set an alert up for.

Thank you

Update - the bastard has done a post redirection under his name, which starts in 2 days time. And you cannot cancel a post redirection by phone only by post.

So in the meantime we won’t be able to intercept and return to sender and he gets more credibility for the address with more evidence. And we won’t know if he sets up more companies with the address (well we will as I shall stalk him on companies house register).

Action Fraud informed.