Hello all,
I'm writing this on behalf of my wife. Thanks to reading previous forums on here we managed to negate a series of letters from Avantis for a fictitious debt, so thank you!
My wife received a letter from Capquest, in her maiden name (and Miss as opposed to Mrs) around a month ago which as per the advice we didn't respond to.
A further letter was received dated 27/3/13 from Barclaycard with detail that the debt has been assigned to CapQuest Investments Ltd and they have appointed CapQuest Debt Recovery Ltd.
The amount at 6th Feb 2013 was £3344.07
We have been married since 2007, and we believed that all account and address details have been updated, although my wife has had trouble with a Barclays Bank account and has had to visit a branch after they repeatedly didn't update the details.
Following advice on here we applied for a noddle.co.uk credit report and discovered a few things.
1) The Barclaycard account had 8x £300 cash advances made on it, 1 in Oct 2010, 7 in Nov 2010. We were not at the address at this time and my wife would have updated both her name upon marriage and address upon moving.
2) The address links section shows the following (details changed within asterisks!)
From *wrong address where we have never lived*
To *address where we lived from 2004-2009*
Most recent source of link Barclaycard
Last confirmed 30/11/2012
Earliest confirmation 30/11/2012
3) There are NO other transactions dating back to April 2007
4) In June 2011 the account appears again as OK and up to date, although the balance continues increasing
We have no intention of speaking to CapQuest, but we don't want this to escalate any further.
Can you please advise us on the following?
1) Does it appear that the account was registered at an address not ours?
2) Is my wife liable for this? We didn't keep a copy of the change of address correspondence (sorry)
3) Should we contact Barclaycard, or will this make us more liable?
We were much more confident with Advantis and a claim for £120 for a bill from 1998, this seems a little closer to home and is worrying especially as we've got a small baby and money is tight.
Thanks in advance for your help, and Happy Easter if you celebrate it!