{"id":4678,"date":"2016-02-13T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hassle-and-harassment-as-debt-collectors-chase-wrong-people-for-money\/"},"modified":"2016-02-13T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T07:12:53","slug":"hassle-and-harassment-as-debt-collectors-chase-wrong-people-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hassle-and-harassment-as-debt-collectors-chase-wrong-people-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Hassle and harassment as debt collectors chase wrong people for money"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nInnocent people can find themselves having to prove who they are if letters and calls start arriving at their property, so know your rightsNicole Newman, a mother-of-one from Tottenham, north London, was recently forced to prove her identity to a bailiff after a court order named her property as the address of a council tax absconder.Letters started arriving three months after she bought her house, until one day she received an already-opened letter which stated that the following week an enforcement agent would be coming \u201cfor the purpose of taking control of goods and transporting such controlled goods to a place of sale\u201d. A previous occupant with a very different name owed more than \u00a37,000 in council tax at another address, which was given on the enforcement notice. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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