Mail from a debt collection company

[Rodleydave]

We opened a letter recently without really looking at the name on it.
It was from a debt collection company.
It was to someone we had never heard of owing £4,800 to Paypal.
Huh we muttered and binned it.
A second one came this week we returned it with 'not known at this address'.
Scam?
Anyone else experienced this sort of thing.

[NL Claret]

We opened a letter recently without really looking at the name on it.
It was from a debt collection company.
It was to someone we had never heard of owing £4,800 to Paypal.
Huh we muttered and binned it.
A second one came this week we returned it with 'not known at this address'.
Scam?
Anyone else experienced this sort of thing.

Used to regularly get letters from debt collection agencies, used to send them back not known at this address etc. Phoned them up when they continued. I did a Google search on the name of these letters and found where the bloke worked. The letters were then put back in the post with his work place address on and a kind note on them for his work colleagues to read about hijacking addresses and his debts.

The debt is with the person and not the address so just bin them.

[Rodleydave]

thanks NL

[FCBurnley]

Not sure you could run up a debt with PayPal ? More likely the other way round

[AlargeClaret]

It will be an eBay seller high volume who has run the debts and scarpered before fees were due , common practice for high value items or a business knowings it’s going bump. If you keep getting me you can phone the company and tell them he’s not at your address , it often works

[Sean Dyche's Watch]

Not sure you could run up a debt with PayPal ? More likely the other way round

PayPal Credit

[DAVETHEVICAR]

I moved to Lincoln 8 years ago and for 3 years had literally hundreds of letters addressed to an individual who lived at my house before me
I sent them back saying the individual did not live here
After 3 years i opened them and they were from debt collecting agencies
Hi owed E-Bay Pay Pal Various Banks etc
I found out his new address and rang agencies up told them to go to this new address
Still letters come 8 years later and I just bin them now without opening them
Been a nightmare