ValDa replied on 18/02/2017 09:43
Posted on 18/02/2017 09:43
This week and last my friends have been targeted by a scam involving multiple mobile phone contracts, set up with their address details. They have so far had five different accounts with Vodafone and two with EE. The very odd thing is that they live in a row of five cottages, and four of the other households on the row have been similarly targetted with multiple accounts at each address. Bills are always in the name of the same couple of individuals, with names which sound Albanian, or Latvian (or similar) but addressed to their address. Each time they have reported the accounts to the fraud section at the relevant phone company.
I suggested they should go to the police, but apparently they weren't partcularly interested as they say my friends haven't lost out financially. Their bank accounts are not those listed as the account from which the 'payment' is to be made so it doesn't appear that the thieves have got their bank details. Is there anything else they can and should be doing? Anyone else had anything similar happen, and what was the result? My friends are assuming that the thieves get away with expensive phones, and that somewhere down the line their address may be visited by 'bailiffs' trying to reclaim goods against unpaid bills.
ValDa
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