If other people think they have their Telstra troubles, then they will
be interested in my problem. What Telstra did was allow someone to
set up an apparently fixed telephone account, and have the bill sent
to my personal address. At first I did not open the Telstra
envelopes for about three months, and wrote "return to sender -- wrong
address", blocking out my address; but then I received mail from
Creditech, a division of Telstra, so I opened the letter and read what
it was all about, and then wrote a letter explaining that the person
concerned did not live at my address, and if they did not stop
annoying me I would have to see a solicitor to have them sued for
harassment.

However letters from Creditech still kept arriving, and I did see a
solicitor, who I am friends with, and he wrote them a letter
threatening them. However, I then received correspondence from Dun &
Bradstreet, acting on behalf of Telstra to collect amounts owing, and
so it was back to the solicitor, who has written that court action
will be taken on my behalf if this harassment does not stop, and, for
about three weeks, I have heard nothing from Dun & Bradstreet. The
main problem is that if nothing was done about the matter, it could be
the case that anyone living at my address could be stopped from
obtaining credit, as well as the fact that if I did not defend myself
it might be assumed by the courts that I am really the person that the
Telstra bills are meant for.

I have my suspicions of who the person is who opened that account with
Telstra, since he is a person who I recently underwent litigation with
to my satisfaction, and, since he is a confidence man, he is likely to
do anything, I, in fact, recently received mail from a different
company for the same person involved in the Telstra scam, but no money
was involved, and I was able to ring up the people concerned and
explain the problem satisfactorily. In there is any more trouble, I
suppose that I will have to take the matter to the police, but you
have to be careful that you don't defame someone.

What I am annoyed about with Telstra, however, is why they do not have
adequate processes in place to stop someone from using a false address
when setting up an account, and the fact that they did not bother to
answer any correspondence from me or my solicitor, but just allowed
the matter to go ahead to have Dun & Bradstreet harass me, in the hope
perhaps that I would settle the account anyway, just for the sake of
peace. Well, I will certainly not be doing any business with
Telstra, if that is their ethical perspective. What Telstra is, now,
I think, under the influence of the current wetbacks running the show,
is a gangster organisation!