You pay the course fee in advance, so you'll be c.£130 out of pocket, and because you didn't attend, get the 3 penalty points.

I received this email response: Dear XXX Thank you for your enquiry. As detailed on our Speed Awareness letter dated 10th June your details were passed on to the Derbyshire course provider, AADriveTech. It is left with you where you book a course and quite naturally you have contacted your local course provider. TTC have already notified this office that a course has been booked. AADriveTech send out their letter as a matter of course and possibly a reminder but as a booking has already been made with TTC these can be ignored. I hope this clarifies the matter. Yours sincerely. XXX CREST Derbyshire Constabulary Seems like it's all fine then. They could do with making their letters more clearly worded though.

I've forwarded the confirmation email from the TTC SAC course I've booked to the Derbyshire Constabulary. Fingers crossed it's all ok, at least it's best to just cover my back but I think it's ok.

Hi, So I got offered the chance to do a Speed Awareness Course, after being flashed doing 58 in a 50. I signed up to one of the courses on the list (signed up online). Then a few days later I got a letter from AADriveTech saying that they'd been instructed by the Derbyshire Constabulary about me doing the course. However I've already signed up to one I got in the original pack. Am I right do just ignore it and do nothing. The AADriveTech letter is quite strongly worded saying if I ignore it I'll get the fine and points.

nah, there isn't the name of anyone on it. The company is LCS. Decided I'm not going to bother informing them of my new address, seeing as they haven't proven the debt to me or followed my request to stop contacting me

and now i've just got a postcard saying they're going to pay me a visit sometime between the 3rd and 10th August. Should I do something about this?

thanks. I'll forward it for 3 months and see how it goes. they haven't proven anything (the only think 'proven' is my old address and my e-on customer number!), so i'll try not to worry for the moment.

and another identical letter. in about a months time i'm moving house. do i: 1. inform LCS of my new address 2. pay to have post forwarded 3. do nothing

just had a letter though, it's identical to the first letter they sent... saying they are investigating the supply blahblahblah and as I lived there they reckon I'm liable. It doesn't say anything new, it definitely doesn't prove it's my debt (anyone could have written that letter if they had my E-ON customer number)

LCS, based in Leeds.

and now they've tried to ring me a few times

the last 2 post have made my day! fingers crossed that is the case. i always thought it was a little bit suspect that 'employed' people could live in halls and not have to worry about council tax, but the landlord company seemed to think it shouldn't be a problem. hopefully my accommodation is Class M

cheers, does it prove anything about their case though? it seems pretty desperate!

sent off my "prove it" letter yesterday, my mum just forwarded me another letter from them, offering a settlement with 20% knocked off the "debt". Is this normal? does this prove they're phishing? bit strange really... hopefully i'll get a response from them soon

indeed, it's why I'm so pleased to have found this forum... the advice has been superb (and the 'be cheeky to a DCA' thread has had me in stitches). I feel much more relieved about this issue now.

cheers... yeah it was a moment of panic worrying that the bailiffs were on their way to my parents house. That was all before i found this excellent site. Thanks

great advice. I'm moving out of the property in a month and so the amount will only be 1 years worth. I'll take your advice about putting money aside, as I'm sure they'll catch up eventually.

Thanks for the 'prove it' letter, I'll send that to LCS today. They already have my actual address and mobile number, and i mentioned my moving out date when i phoned them in a panic yesterday. Should I send e-on a letter too, with the original moving out letter attached? or should i just deal with LCS?

I think that's likely, however how will the bill increase when they catch up with me? Is it just interest accrued on the amount over time or will it be substantially more?

thanks for your reply, it's very useful. cheers about the CCA, with everything on here it get's a bit confusing when you don't really know what to do! I can't see anything on E-on's website to check my bill/connection or whatever. would be useful if I could though. Just to clarify, it's not quite 12 months since I left. Like you say I think I owe them something, but doubt it's that much. I'll probably shorten my letter a bit and just send a copy of Martin&Co's letter and highlight that any correspondence should have come to my new address, which it hasn't. Hopefully that'll sort it

Hi, second time typing this all out as the 1st post disappeared into cyberspace. Below I've copied in a draft letter I've written, hopefully it will clearly explain my issue. Any help/strategy/suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this has come out of the blue and is stressing me out! Customer Service Director, E-ON, Customer Service Centre, PO Box 7750, Nottingham, NG1 6WR, CC: LCS Debt Recovery 3 Leodis Court, Leeds, LS11 5JJ, 23rd June 2009 Dear Sir/Madam, Regarding E-on Customer Reference xxxxx and LCS Case Number yyyyy I have recently received two letters from LCS debt recovery company, who are claiming that there is an unpaid amount of £230.53 for utility used at my old address, [house A] between 04/11/2007 and 19/04/2009. A copy of this letter and contents has also been sent to LCS. My tenancy at Furnace Hill ended on 03/09/2008 and the tenancy agency, Martin&Co Sheffield South sent E-ON a letter dated 02/09/2008 which included my electricity meter reading on that day at 01080. My previous meter reading was read by you on 16/01/2008 and was 00273. A gas meter reading was not included in the letter by Martin&Co but a bill contains a reading on 04/11/2007 of 4 and an estimation on 21/01/2008 of 16. For your information I have included copies of all bills (and receipts) I have on file, my moving in and moving out tenancy agreements, a copy of the letter sent by Martin & Co as mentioned above, as well as copies of the letters sent by LCS. I would have expected a final bill to be sent to the my forwarding address as mentioned above, however I am sure I have not received anything to this address. This is backed up by the fact that LCS have contacted my parents address in Essex, not my current address. If the letter from Martin & Co was not received by you then this makes sense and I appreciate that there may be an outstanding amount due, however I must urge LCS to stop any legal proceedings as I cannot claim responsibility for this debt. I have spoken on the phone to LCS and promised to provide records of bills, which are included. I expect a letter of response from LCS within 10 days to acknowledge receipt and to promise to halt legal proceedings whilst E-ON look into this. I expect a letter of response from E-ON within 10 days after looking into my customer account and fully investigating the utility usage for when I was at [house A]. Looking forward to your response, Yours sincerely, mogwai84 if anyone has any thoughts that would be great. I've read about requesting CCA's but seeing as they haven't 'legally' threatened me from what i can see then that probably isn't necessary yet. Is it worth insisting that Martin&Co go and check the letter box at my old house for post, as i didn't set up "post forwarding" and it's likely there is a box full of bills. Read through a lot of this site and it's all very useful, but this is all new to me so any help really REALLY appreciated! *goes and carries on panicking!*

I moved into a a block of flats which are predominantly student accommodation last september, however a number of people including myself met their 'young key workers' criteria (uni staff/nhs/police etc). Before moving in the company letting the accomodation said they were in negotiation with the council to see how council tax would be dealt with (nothing in writing tho). We haven't heard anything since, no electoral roll details to fill or anything. I haven't spoken to the accommodation managers about this either but have always expected the council to catch up and for a bill to arrive... however I'm a mixture of please that i haven't paid anything, and slightly worried about things getting nasty. I'm not trying to evade them or anything, but would like a bit of advice over the smart thing to do. I don't really want a court summons to suddenly appear or for a nice big invoice for a years tax. However I don't want to be the honest guy who might screw everyone in my block of flats over:shock:

my letter will get there a day late... but oh well!