littlewoods fraud...

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My OH discovered today that someone had ordered over £1000 of stuff using his Littlewoods account. Somehow they had got into both LittlewoodsDirect and Littlewoods.com and ordered from both. To do this Littlewoods say they would have had to know his password and, to change the delivery address, his date of birth.

Thing is I went into my own account to test this by changing the delivery address and not once did it ask me to enter my date of birth as verification.

Whoever did it was so stupid that they failed to change the email address on his account so he was alerted by the confirmation e-mail which was sent to his work e-mail. On the email he got was the person's delivery address which I looked up on the electoral register and we now have a name of the person who lives there. Weirdly the address is in the same block of flats as a good friend who is now in a panic incase it's somehow connected to him even though he doesn't know the person in that flat.

So... anyone had this happen to them? Littlewoods have put a stop on his account and have cancelled the order.

Now we have a name and an address, can we do anything about it? Littlewoods fraud people say they will invesatigate but considering they don't seem to know their arses from their elbows re the date of birth thing we're wondering if there's anything we can do - go to the police?

Anyone here work for Littlewoods?

Am I the only one who would suspect my friend? Come on, what are the chances when you live hundreds of miles apart that the fraudster would live in the same building as a good friend?

I know this is an old thread but I just received two statements in the post one from Littlewoods one from Very.co.uk. my address but my husbands name and we are separated so he hasn't lived here since January. He would never register with those catalogues anyway. I phoned Littlewoods (Very is the same company) and got through to their fraud department they said nothing has been ordered but the combined credit limit is £4,000 they promised they will close the accounts. Our house is up for sale also I wonder if that is anything to do with it as one of the previous posts was someone with a flat for sale?

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I got a statement from Littlewoods today , looked ok and said to click on account to get in but when I did it asked for my date of birth and alarm bells went, I dont think it looks right .

Report it to Action Fraud.

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