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Evening everyone,
It's been a while since I've been here, roughly 2 years I think, but there has been a new development with my mobile phone number!
To recap, about 4 years ago I took out a mobile phone contract with Orange along with a new phone number. About a year after I took out the contract, around November/December time, I started receiving phone calls from Capquest looking for someone I don't know, and who I suspect probably had the phone number before me. I also discovered that Orange actually use Capquest to recover unpaid depts! Anyway, after being pestered on and off by Capquest for around 2 years, usually at around this time of year, I eventually got rid of them by making a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office.
Today, 2 years later, I receive a call from a different collection agency on 0333 344 0286, who are apparently called Raven Recoveries, part of a debt collection company called MKDP LLP...:tinysmile_cry_t:
Since I suspect that this won't be the last I hear from these jokers, as judging by some of the posts on this forum it appears that MKDP/Raven are even more persistant and odeious than Capquest! In an attempt to get rid of them I have this evening written them a letter, only giving them my mobile number, politely asking them to remove it from their database, as I suspect their information is grossly out-of-date, and is therefore in breach of the Data Protection Act!
Lets hope it get's rid of them
In my experience the only way to stop these debt collection jokers phoning you is to complain to the ICO.
It's been a while since I've been here, roughly 2 years I think, but there has been a new development with my mobile phone number!
To recap, about 4 years ago I took out a mobile phone contract with Orange along with a new phone number. About a year after I took out the contract, around November/December time, I started receiving phone calls from Capquest looking for someone I don't know, and who I suspect probably had the phone number before me. I also discovered that Orange actually use Capquest to recover unpaid depts! Anyway, after being pestered on and off by Capquest for around 2 years, usually at around this time of year, I eventually got rid of them by making a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office.
Today, 2 years later, I receive a call from a different collection agency on 0333 344 0286, who are apparently called Raven Recoveries, part of a debt collection company called MKDP LLP...:tinysmile_cry_t:
Since I suspect that this won't be the last I hear from these jokers, as judging by some of the posts on this forum it appears that MKDP/Raven are even more persistant and odeious than Capquest! In an attempt to get rid of them I have this evening written them a letter, only giving them my mobile number, politely asking them to remove it from their database, as I suspect their information is grossly out-of-date, and is therefore in breach of the Data Protection Act!
Lets hope it get's rid of them
In my experience the only way to stop these debt collection jokers phoning you is to complain to the ICO.
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