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Dh's Wife has been using our address, advice needed please?

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Marne · 28/06/2006 12:59

We had a letter addressed to his ex wife, a final reminder for money owed to a dept company for a bill unpaid to Powergen.

Dh is realy

Dh phoned her and she said she had never herd of the company and had not given our address to anyone.
Dh phoned the company and was told that she must have given our address.

Is there any other way they could of traced her to this address?

If she has used our address could she be using it for other bills etc..

What should we do if she is using our address?

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Marne · 28/06/2006 13:01

oops sorry about the title, should sat 'ex wife', makes it sound like dh has 2 wifes!

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compo · 28/06/2006 13:01

could you send post back saying 'person not known at this address' or just forward the post on to her?

VeniVidiVickiQV · 28/06/2006 13:03

Contact the companies that send you post for and give them her new address.

It may be that powergen have done a trace and this is an address that has been listed for her in the past and so have sent mail there in the hope that she might get it.

You can contact a credit reference agency, and ask them to separate you and your DH from this womans name at your with regard to credit checks in future. IF she continues to have bills sent to you im not sure, but i think it would be a police matter?

VeniVidiVickiQV · 28/06/2006 13:03

at your address*

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Marne · 28/06/2006 13:05

We have phoned them to explain she does'nt live her. We are just angry that she has given our address, the letter says if payment is not made action will be taken, we could have are belongings removed from our house etc...

She has never lived at this address, so why has the bill come to our house?

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fairydust · 28/06/2006 13:08

we had this happen to us only it was for a bill with the same surname as us but not our bill and apparntly they search the electrol role and send them out we we're told

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Marne · 28/06/2006 13:14

The bloke that dh talked to on the phone seemed to think she must have said she lived at our address. We hav'nt had any other bills come here, just this final reminder. Dh thinks she has told them that she has moved and given them our address just to get them of her back.

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Freckle · 28/06/2006 14:07

Why haven't they sent the bill to the address to which they supply energy? It seems bizarre to send the bill to another address withough written instructions to do so.

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Marne · 28/06/2006 16:12

Dh's ex is saying she does'nt even use powergen, which is why dh does'nt believe a word she is saying, she must of used Powergen or their would'nt be a bill.

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Freckle · 28/06/2006 18:04

Unless someone is using her details to avoid paying a bill.

Does the bill say which property is being supplied?

SenoraPostrophe · 28/06/2006 18:08

if it's a debt co then it could be anything - they may have mixed her up with someone with a similar name, may have traced you address independently, anything. they're bastards.she could be telling the truth.

SenoraPostrophe · 28/06/2006 18:13

(I mean they may have found a Mrs x at your address and assumed it's her).

coppertop · 28/06/2006 18:20

Powergen are notoriously crap when it comes to bills IME. We started getting bills with our address on and someone else's name. We were with British Gas. To start with we just sent them back with "Not known at this address" on the envelope. Then we phoned them to explain that the person didn't live here. Lots of frustrating conversations followed where they refused to discuss the account because I wasn't the person named on the bill. Eventually EnergyWatch (or whatever they're called these days) stepped in on our behalf. It turned out that the person actually lived on the same street but a different number. Someone in admin had got the house number wrong and that's how it had all started. Powergen paid us compensation in the end.

Expectantmum · 28/06/2006 18:22

I have had this with my ex husband. Although I am divorced and remarried, what the debt collection agencies do is search and they found that my ex DH had a financial association with me and so started sending his letters to my address. The only way I could sort it out was to run a credit check in my name (or in your case DH's name) and then apply for a disassociation through that credit reference agency. It appears to have sorted it out..... hopefully . I have had one in the past few months and I just crossed out my address and wrote Return to Sender - Not Known at this Address. HTH

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Marne · 28/06/2006 21:52

Thanks Expactantmum,

The bill is billed to her address, meaning she has used powergen at her house which she says she has'nt.

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Freckle · 28/06/2006 22:30

We switched from Seeboard to Sainsburys some time ago. After some time I realised that we were still getting bills from Seeboard and my dh (bless) was happily paying them - totally forgetting that he was paying Sainsburys by direct debit.

Took quite a while to sort out, but basically Seeboard had cocked up and ended up having to pay us back quite a large sum of money.

My point is, the ex might be saying that she doesn't use Powergen, but is she saying that she never has? Could be a mix up if she's switched companies.

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