Someone's using my home address.?

Question

I've been living at this address for the past 3 years and for the last year and a half I have been recieving mail at my home address and they have never lived here.

They have established quite a legit looking profile , I'm looking at the return address of all this mail. No I'm not opening this up, I've got car dealerships, labor unions, financial institutions mailing stuff here. To anyone it would look like these people are legit, wage-earning, great credit rating people. I used to have their OHIP mail coming here too. What to do, the federal mail service would only return to sender. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Returning to sender should have stopped this, contact your post office. If you are really concern thinking these people had their identiy stolen, try to locate them or contact police

Answer 2

You need to take it higher, to the postmaster general of the facility that delivers your mail (yes, there is a person in high authority who has his staff research such things).

How is it that all these things are going to your address, I mean are there repeats (like the person isn't paying his bills, or do they seem to be being paid and he's just using your address?) Could be that one digit is "off" on the numbers as he could have remembered them incorrectly when he signed up with all those places a few years ago.

Why not ask the post office if they know the address of said "John Doe". Or spend a few dollars to get this mail out of your box by writing to the return addresses and returning the mail along with a letter saying that person doesn't live at your home and you never met them, don't know them, etc. and would appreciate if they stopped sending to your address. I was thinking that maybe if you're receiving dunning bills that maybe the person has passed away.

Take a look in your phone book and see if there is an address for this person, or ask the operator for a number, or even call a few of the places (the important ones) where the bills come from and tell them what's going on.

I would make sure though that I NEVER opened any of the mail...that "might" be illegal. And I would never throw any of that mail into the trash either. You could send it in a bunch or drop it off at the post office and put a note on it that the address is wrong on that bunch. The post office does have an actual police (yep, they even carry guns and they look like policemen) who checks out things that are illegal. If you have to, then as your final response call the postal police and ask for their suggestions.

Answer 3

Hi. Just a note from an old maillady. Every year for twenty five years someone filled out a change of address card with the wrong forwarding address. Sometimes its the state, sometimes, its the zip sometimes just a digit of the number is wrong. Many times they have moved from the OLD address before the new address people say "Who are these people?"
Mail feeds on Mail. some of the forwarded stuff has had its
address changed directly by the senders at this point. Meanwhile the junk mail which must be delivered to the new address no matter WHO lives there still comes. WHEW!
All I am saying is that it is most likely not a police matter, and don't begin to use the accounts. The police would come for you. Make a pile and return it to the carrier at intervals (Your regular carrier). Good luck. One Day the folks may discover their error and put in a COA with a good address.

Answer 4

Someone Using My Address

Answer 5

This could either indicate:
1. You have a neighbor that tends to write down their address wrong.
2. You are getting mail from the other end of the road (My address contains the word South before the street name. I occasionally get mail addressed to North or that is missing the distinction.
3. You are a victim of identity theft. Watch your credit reports closely. You can get a copy yearly for free from the big three at http://annualcreditreport.com

I would mark each mail piece "Possible fraudulent use of address. Return to sender".
If there is unauthorized activity on your credit report, challenge the validity of the information and contact the police.

Answer 6

OK, the person may have just given out any address to all of those sending mail to your address. This is done st times so that the target client can get away from those trying to sell something they do not want. The best thing for you to do is have a talk with the Post Office that handles your mail delivery, and if they cannot do anything, just go out and report it to the FBI.
Truth

Answer 7

Several different names (at least four) have been sending stuff, including packages to our address recently. None has any association with this address. When I took it to the post office, a substitute carrier returned MY mail with "addressee unknown" stamped! This included a large check that I was expecting! (I don t even know what other mail was returned by mistake.) Several of the unknown name items are financial in nature... Short of it: reporting backfired on me.

Answer 8

The previous owners of my home had criminal activity going on. 1 year after moving in I was awakened by 10 police officers dressed in black with a battering ram ready to crash in my front door. Luckily, my dog tipped me off and my son and I opened the door. They were looking for the previous owners. After 20 minutes of interrogation and finally convincing them that I had purchased the house and they did not live there anymore, they left.
I wrote them a letter to their new address requesting that they change their court documents and also called the court looking for them. Here I am 3.5 years out and my mother who has senile dementia, opens a package that was addressed to the previous owners wife. It was a package of bank checks from the same bank I belong to with her name on them and my address. I am returning them to the bank but am concerned if this is a form of identity theft. I wrote them a letter again to tell them to disassociate themselves from my address. Should I be worried?

Answer 9

Con artists many times set up fake residence to establish credit worthiness. If its junk mail just toss it but if it looks suspicious you can contact your local police (not 911) and alert them to a possible fraudulant act using your address.

Answer 10

you will have to take this seriously. you may be black listed and you don't know it.

I know that you can get a credit ratting on your address but I cant remember the web address.

Answer 11

Someone going around with a fake ID by name Kofi Agyarko is using peoples addresses for all kinds of fraud, from marriage scams to credit card frauds to phone frauds. He is in his sixties, claims he is from Ghana. Claims he lives in Delaware, New York, Atlanta, Ghana....