Someone bought, 4 – Vodafone, 2- O2 and 2 – Tesco mobile contracts on my name and address. So in December 2012, I started receiving letter one after other in a week!
As I understand, they only have my:
- Full Name
- Address
- DOB
They don’t have:
- Bank Details
- Credit card details etc
After that I kept on calling all these companies and explained them and also asked them how can they give out mobiles without checking bank details?? No answer there…
Vodafone was the first to sort out and close my account with apology letter. Tesco followed them and O2 were last. (Yes they took 6 months!).
Apart from the fact that O2 passed my details to debt collector before confirming that this was fraud transaction and now Debt collectors are chasing me. (Either o2 did not bother to inform debt collector or debt collector are retards…)
I guess, I will talk to debt collectors and sort out, but what else should I be doing? As I understand this is partial identity theft.
In case of identity theft, you change your bank details order new CC etc, but in this case what do I do? Can’t change my name address etc!
Guess one thing I will do is get credit report from Experian and check nothing is nasty there?
What else should I do?
(I am a contractor and I had to spend lot of time sorting out this mess…Guess I should get some compensation as well!)
As I understand, they only have my:
- Full Name
- Address
- DOB
They don’t have:
- Bank Details
- Credit card details etc
After that I kept on calling all these companies and explained them and also asked them how can they give out mobiles without checking bank details?? No answer there…
Vodafone was the first to sort out and close my account with apology letter. Tesco followed them and O2 were last. (Yes they took 6 months!).
Apart from the fact that O2 passed my details to debt collector before confirming that this was fraud transaction and now Debt collectors are chasing me. (Either o2 did not bother to inform debt collector or debt collector are retards…)
I guess, I will talk to debt collectors and sort out, but what else should I be doing? As I understand this is partial identity theft.
In case of identity theft, you change your bank details order new CC etc, but in this case what do I do? Can’t change my name address etc!
Guess one thing I will do is get credit report from Experian and check nothing is nasty there?
What else should I do?
(I am a contractor and I had to spend lot of time sorting out this mess…Guess I should get some compensation as well!)
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