DVLA mail for unknown car

On 11:43 19 Nov 2018, Adrian Caspersz wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:

I have written to the DVLA but it seems to make no difference. They don't seem bothered. They ask me to write them a letter.

Your web page also asks me to write to for proof that I'm not the registered keeper but I have no need for such proof. And I am not sure why I need to be writing letters and apying postage, especially in this day and age of email, when I am reporting a error to them.

I phoned the garage which was sending mail to the same person at my address and they did stop.

My question is, is there a potential scam going on here?

I wonder if that garage could be the original source of the misinformation?

On 11:57 19 Nov 2018, "Dan S. MacAbre" wrote in news:psu8f4$g83$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Maybe the buyer gave the garage a fake address?

Might be worth asking where /they/ got the address from? At least you once got a response from them :-) DVLA won't care because they don't have to.

On 12:10 19 Nov 2018, "Dan S. MacAbre" wrote in news:psu979$lir$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

To be honest I don't have any problem, except for the nuisance mail. However I was wondering if the owner was playing some scam because I can't see it.

I can't imagine any scam (but I'm not that imaginative), but might you not have a problem (or at least much inconvenience) if it is involved in a crime?

You might get your garden dug over by the police without charge. :)

More likely, you'll get loads of bailiffs round trying to get you to pay somebody else's parking tickets.

Where we are now, we have the worst soil I've ever encountered. They'd soon give up digging, and conclude that the canal at the back is the only really practical place to dump a body.

I might start worrying when you start getting speeding tickets through your front door.

There are several possibilities.

A previous tenant/owner of your house hasn't updated the DVLA re their move.

A previous tenant/owner of your house has returned to the same garage, bought another car, but the garage has used the old address.

A c*ck up on the address, possibly by one of those 'auto fill' systems where you enter the first part and a post code, if they put the wrong post code in, and the road and number exists in another town then you get a valid address.

Something as simple as a wrong house number.

So far, you've got errors rather than scams- still a problem.

The real issues start if someone has set out to use your address on purpose. This could be to avoid parking tickets, 'taxing' the car, speeding tickets, etc. or worse.

Either way, by informing the DVLA you've done the right thing.

As you say the DVLA and garage seem to have ignored to so far, I'd write to both again, recorded delivery.

State clearly that you are not the person who owns the car, have no knowledge of them (assuming this is case- which I assume is true) and that you require them to update their records immediately AND confirm they have done so.

I would include a copy of at least some of the letters.

Retain copies of your letters etc.

maybe a Pool car whats the reg number people with no licence or insurance give false address so when they get chased by police or crash it cant be traced to them

If you know the registration you can check for valid tax and MOT (cars under 3 years old don't require a MOT) on the .gov.uk site.

I had this recently, a letter to dvla explaining that the person and vehicle are unknown was sent back, free of postage, just write RTS on the envelope the original letter came in and put it in a postbox.

On 09:26 20 Nov 2018, MrCheerful wrote in news:ZqQID.331826$ snipped-for-privacy@fx36.am:

I orginally did that.

However the busybody on the DVLA helpline recently insisted that wasn't good enough and I would have to actually write in by post.

Let the DVLA have dodgy records because I've done all I am prepared to.

No escape. You'll be guaranteed communication with them in future.

Where do they send the fixed penalty notice for £100 for having no valid MOT certificate?

Is there currently a good credit score on your property address and real residents?

(I'd sort it out....)

There's widespread misunderstanding about the relevance of that. Credit checks are done on people, not addresses. People who live - or have lived - at the same address don't affect a person's credit score - unless of course they share their finances somehow (eg joint mortgage).

CCJ for unpaid parking/speeding fines will be logged against an address and can affect your ability or the price you pay for motor or household insurance.

That's why insurance companies ask about the history of ANYONE else living at the address.

Yes, they are useless. I had a parking penalty notice, my reg nr had been cloned. Sorted that out with the parking people, there were sufficient differences between their photo and my car to prove that. They said you should tell DVLA. DVLA won't accept email, nor message via their web-form ? you have to write. Wrote, got back boilerplate reply telling me what I already knew? my registration details are correct. Said contact police, did that, they said we don't record it, the parking company have to report it as a crime. Waste of space the lot of them.