Page 1 of My first experience of identity fraud

Got a bill today from T-Mobile for £293.52, thing is I`ve never had a phone with them. :)

Obviously I contacted them first, and after being initially helpful they then said I had to write a bloody letter to their fraud department, which I thought was a heck of a lot of effort considering they let someone impersonate me rather easily.

Anyway, after saying I didn`t care if they passed it on to their debt collection department, the lady said I could email them or fax. Oh NOW you tell me, shouldn`t you have told me that first of all? (Do hope that call was recorded for training purposes :p)

Also contacted the local police, who will call me back tomorrow with a crime reference number.

I can`t wait to see what T-Mobile accepted as identification, on the basis I shred all things leaving this house containing anything personal. (I even tear off the pages of catalogues from Viking etc with my acc number on and shred that).

If it is two genuine bills they used, then it most likely was stolen in the postal system.

Nothing has been taken from any of my accounts.

Still, now I get to say that I have been the victim of ID fraud and still am against identity cards. :p


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Keep us informed how you get on RJ.

Will

Sure will, it isn`t annoying atm, it is more interesting. :)

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I was a victim of fraud recently on my credit card,
Apparently some low life used my card number to purchase some audio equipement from Currys online to the tune of £649.
The credit card bloke dealing with it said there are lots of scum out there trying random numbers over and over again untill they hit on a genuine credit card number, And this time it was mine >:(
Anyway all sorted now as it was picked up on by their fraud dept, they tried ringing me but the number they had for me was not correct, they also wrote to me but i told them no letter arrived.
It`s quite shocking and worrying when you open your statement to find a demand for £649 thats when i phoned them to sort it out.

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Also contacted the local police, who will call me back tomorrow with a crime reference number.

That`ll show the fraudsters eh ?

>:(

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That`ll show the fraudsters eh ?



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This item was edited on Monday, 14th March 2005, 14:21

I`m ringing for the crime reference number, I don`t believe they`ll actually do much other than take the details, and tbh going racing after every single identity fraud case would be a waste of resources.

However, I`m also sure that occasionally they believe these are linked to serious crime, especially where large international calls are concerned, and if they can easily trace the fraudster, it makes their life actually easier.

All I`m doing is giving them the option. :)


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Some halfwit registered a pay-as-you-go mobile phone using my name and address a year and a half ago. It back fired on them when the ever helpful phone company sent me one of those credit card style things to be able to buy air time in supermarkets. Rang them up and they asked me to do the same, to write to them confirming I had never had that phone number or phone and they would disable the phone.

I`m not knocking you for doing it.
I`m knocking the fact that they invariably resort to that.
I had an attempted house break-in a couple of years ago.
They could have come and taken fingerprints etc.
They could have interviewed you and asked where you`ve used your card etc.etc.

No no though....
Just dish out crime references and leave it at that eh ?

:/ >:(

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Just dish out crime references and leave it at that eh ?

bowfer
sorry to hear you are disillusioned with the service you received, but believe me, we get a lot more right than we get wrong...

just for interest sake where abouts do you live?



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