What can i do re false invoices?

[greg1978]

I am being hassled by a debt collector agency re wrong invoices sent to me over 6 years ago. i was recieving these invoices from 3 mobile but they had nothing to do with me or my phone number or my account. What can i do????? I wasn't even with 3 mobile at the time and i was recieving these invoices with a totally different phone number. I wrote letters and made phone calls but nothing changed. now i have to pay over �400 for bills that were not mine. Please help!!!!

[Postdog]

visit a CAB or see a solicitor.

[fredpuli47]

Do as suggested by Postdog, above. Before that and above all don't pay or offer to pay anything. If you don't owe anything, you don't owe anything. If you made an offer you could be held to have agreed that you owed something and then they'd sue for the whole sum plus interest

They can't get money from anyone simply because they are debt collectors. Whoever they are, they have to go to court and sue you first (they won't do that without you knowing, because they have your address and that would be the address the court uses) and get a judgment. The papers are all sent out by the court and you deal with the court office. You send back a form they supply (your defence) in which you say you don't owe anything and the bills have nothing to do with you and explain why. That should be the end of it. The claimant debt agency or the company they are acting for has to prove the opposite, that it was you, it is your bill, you did have that phone etc etc and that they sued within six years of the debt. When they discover they can't, they give up.

[innocenti]

First of all you need to ask the debt collectors to PROVE that the debt is yours. You want signed contracts, payments you have paid, where the phone was delivered to, which bank accounts payments came from etc. If they cannot prove beyond doubt that the debt is yours it then becomes unenforcable.

[fredpuli47]

I stress that, anyway, they cannot claim for a debt which is more than six years old. They are statute barred, out of time, once it is six years old (even when they have the right debtor ! ).

Debt agencies take on debts which are out of time or nearly out of time on the off chance that they'll scare someone into paying up . Not everyone knows their own rights, or the law.