Whats your problem?

There is a fixed line service connected at someone ELSEs address, NOT
addressed to you, and you are NOT legally liable.

Writing RTS is the correct thing to do.

Telstra has to LEGALLY send the reminder notices and letters to the "last
known address" in order to collect the debt

<virgmob007@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:add3179b-f9bb-4e6f-a41a-aeb8981aa0d9@k2g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> 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!