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    Had a visit from Marston recently, saw a guy at the door with a lanyard round his neck and thought can't be bothered with a canvasser. Went to the loo and upon returning noticed an unsealed envelope on the doormat.
    it was addressed to me. A letter from Marston demanding £600+ for what it didn't specify but suggested I call a name and mobile number. Scratched my head for a while and wondered how this had popped up out of the blue

    I live in a shared house and instantly know what mail is addressed to me by the envelopes and I'm generally expecting it.

    As in most shared houses there's always a pile of mail to ex tenants, I looked through this for the first time in perhaps ever and there not far down was a previously unnoticed brown envelope addressed to me from Marston.

    It was for an unpaid road tax fine.

    Now here's where it gets interesting. Why after 2+ years did these letters turn up?

    I've been abroad for a year of that and have been completely "under the radar" since my return (for no criminal reason i hasten to add)

    The only thing that has happened differently and on record was a recent referral by my GP to see a specialist at a hospital. The first letter arrived 3 days after the appointment letter from the hospital.

    Make of that what you will, I know what I've concluded and it's illegal.

    Most people wouldn't notice this as they are perhaps "linked in" to society in many ways so to extrapolate one source would be difficult. In my case I KNOW this is the only possible source.

    The who that gave away the info is unimportant to me, I know that they were paid and I understand that>
    However Marston or an agent of Marston must have requested that information
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  • #2
    Re: How Marston find you

    If you are on the Register of Electors at the address they may have checked that.

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    • #3
      Re: How Marston find you

      I'm not Bob, neither have I finance, a motor vehicle, a contract phone, PAYE tax or at the same address since the original fine

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      • #4
        Re: How Marston find you

        Could have had a tracing agent snooping, mobile phone contracts, etc

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        • #5
          Re: How Marston find you

          The big players employ very sophisticated methods.

          One such is http://www.globalinvestigations.co.uk/tracing-debtors/
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          • #6
            Re: How Marston find you

            Possibly also a relevant link

            http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...g-8728981.html

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            • #7
              Re: How Marston find you

              Or

              http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-8721327.html

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              • #8
                Re: How Marston find you

                As this concerns personal data, I would press Marstons to reveal their source. If they won't, speak to the ICO. If it turns out Marstons are employing questionable methods or third parties using questionable methods, ICO ain't going to be happy bunnies and I doubt HMCTS will be either if it amounts to a breach of the DPA.
                Life is a journey on which we all travel, sometimes together, but never alone.

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                • #9
                  Re: How Marston find you

                  Originally posted by bluebottle View Post
                  As this concerns personal data, I would press Marstons to reveal their source. If they won't, speak to the ICO. If it turns out Marstons are employing questionable methods or third parties using questionable methods, ICO ain't going to be happy bunnies and I doubt HMCTS will be either if it amounts to a breach of the DPA.
                  Makes you wonder how many of these bailiff traces, especially Marstons, who get it wrong, and enforce against the wrong John Smith with monotonous regularity, are kosher.

                  Once they trace someone who fits the profile no matter how remote a connection if any, are as persistent as flies round a dog turd, in their attempts to extract cash.

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                  • #10
                    Re: How Marston find you

                    As suggested, there are a number of possibilities, some legal, some not. Use a SAR to force Marstons to disclose their source.

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                    • #11
                      Re: How Marston find you

                      an SAR?

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                      • #12
                        Re: How Marston find you

                        Originally posted by fello View Post
                        an SAR?
                        Subject Access Request, courtesy of the Data Protection Act 1998. You are the subject of data held by company X. You may require them to produce it. It's very easy - see the ICO (Office of the Information Commissioner) website.

                        Hopefully, it will then reveal their source.

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                        • #13
                          Re: How Marston find you

                          Originally posted by enquirer View Post
                          As suggested, there are a number of possibilities, some legal, some not. Use a SAR to force Marstons to disclose their source.
                          Unless I am very much mistaken, Enquirer, Marston are obliged to reveal the source, as is any organisation who handles an individual's personal data. An SAR may not be necessary. The OP needs to speak to the ICO in the first instance and be guided by them. If they don't need to do an SAR, they will have saved £10.
                          Life is a journey on which we all travel, sometimes together, but never alone.

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                          • #14
                            Re: How Marston find you

                            I shall look into that, thank you

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                            • #15
                              Re: How Marston find you

                              http://www.legalbeagles.info/forums/...ur-information

                              Info here
                              CAVEAT LECTOR

                              This is only my opinion - "Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?" (Byron)

                              You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
                              Cohen, Herb


                              There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he
                              gets his brain a-going.
                              Phelps, C. C.


                              "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance!"
                              The last words of John Sedgwick

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