Has anyone had their home address used fraudulently?

[hellokitty]

I received a speed camera fine in the mail the other day for a person I don't know, addressed to my home address. I though "weird" wrote on the envelope and sent back to the return address.
Today I have received an elections letter addressed to the same person.

I have lived here for 8 years and it seems odd that now I am getting official mail for this person. The last thing I want is fines being sent to my address.

Any ideas how I can find out who this person is?

[Dave Lobster]

Have you read the name they're addressed to?
Might be a clue..

[hellokitty]

Yep, obviously... done a google, facebook, twitter etc search.
Nothing.

[Virago]

Plug their name into White Pages, see what you find:

http://yellow.co.nz/whitepages/

Possibly a case of common typo. My mum's street number is 2D - the people at number 20 received lots of her mail.

[jafar]

I received a speed camera fine in the mail the other day for a person I don't know, addressed to my home address. I though "weird" wrote on the envelope and sent back to the return address.
Today I have received an elections letter addressed to the same person.

I have lived here for 8 years and it seems odd that now I am getting official mail for this person. The last thing I want is fines being sent to my address.

Any ideas how I can find out who this person is?

Mark the envelope ; Return to sender , not known @ this address. & send them back. There is little else you can do.

[hellokitty]

Mark the envelope ; Return to sender , not known @ this address. & send them back. There is little else you can do.

Yeah, I guess I am being paranoid

[jafar]

Yeah, I guess I am being paranoid

Possibly, or they have got the street address right but the suburb or post code wrong. A typo in the system somewhere is the most likely answer.
If you live in a common named street . I.E. queen st , high st, beach rd etc , this is an easy mistake to happen.
Have you contacted NZ Post to tell them anything addressed to that person is to be redirected to the sender?

[hellokitty]

Possibly, or they have got the street address right but the suburb or post code wrong. A typo in the system somewhere is the most likely answer.
If you live in a common named street . I.E. queen st , high st, beach rd etc , this is an easy mistake to happen.
Have you contacted NZ Post to tell them anything addressed to that person is to be redirected to the sender?

My street name is not common, quite unusual in fact..

[jafar]

My street name is not common, quite unusual in fact..

Contact NZpost & get mail addressed to that person redirected back to the sender.

[spajohn]

I was getting notices repeatedly sent over about 18 months to an address despite returning advising "not at this address" etc. This escalated to what appear to be court notices, so I rang the the Wellington court, and Wellington city council, advising the persons name, and that it was a rented property I had been at since x date. The letters stopped after that.

[AllanB]

Start opening them - there may be money in the next one!

[jellywrestler]

do nowt for a while, then they'll have to pay more for the fine and that'll learn them

[avgas]

Start opening them - there may be money in the next one!

What he said - open, take the money, burn the bills.
Its not your name so it not your fault.

[steve_t]

I was getting notices repeatedly sent over about 18 months to an address despite returning advising "not at this address" etc. This escalated to what appear to be court notices, so I rang the the Wellington court, and Wellington city council, advising the persons name, and that it was a rented property I had been at since x date. The letters stopped after that.

That's good. My missus had the retarded situation of ringing up the sender to tell them to stop sending mail as the recipient had moved on, only to be told that she didn't have authority on the account to change the mailing address for the recipient
After a few more months and several more calls she managed to talk to someone on the phone who stopped the letters. Total fluke I reckon. I guess I can see how they wouldn't want random people ringing up to say that they live at (address) and that the other person no longer lives there if it's not actually true. It's just such a PITA

[spajohn]

It's just such a PITA

Maybe total paranoid but I was worried someone would come to repo their stuff or similar so I wanted to get it sorted once and for all. Def PITA.