My mum has just had a call from BT - interesting situation has arisen.
When she was living with her ex she had a second phone line put in for business (she's self-employed), he offered to pay for it, and set up a direct debit (without her knowledge). When they split up and she moved out (about 6 years ago), she transferred the number to her new house and used it as the house number. Now, 6 years later it turns out that the direct debit wasn't transferred to her name as part of the process.
He's now cancelled the direct debit, and somehow reclaimed 6 years worth of bills from his bank, who have in turn reclaimed it from BT, now BT are asking my mum to pay ~£3,000 within 5 months!
Surely they/he can't do this? Seems a major issue, if this is in fact possible, surely you could screw someone over by doing this to them?
Is there any legislation in place to avoid this? I've had a quick google but couldn't find anything =(
As an aside, my mum's recently gotten engaged... this couldn't possibly be anything to do with it could it?
Happy christmas anyway guys =D
When she was living with her ex she had a second phone line put in for business (she's self-employed), he offered to pay for it, and set up a direct debit (without her knowledge). When they split up and she moved out (about 6 years ago), she transferred the number to her new house and used it as the house number. Now, 6 years later it turns out that the direct debit wasn't transferred to her name as part of the process.
He's now cancelled the direct debit, and somehow reclaimed 6 years worth of bills from his bank, who have in turn reclaimed it from BT, now BT are asking my mum to pay ~£3,000 within 5 months!
Surely they/he can't do this? Seems a major issue, if this is in fact possible, surely you could screw someone over by doing this to them?
Is there any legislation in place to avoid this? I've had a quick google but couldn't find anything =(
As an aside, my mum's recently gotten engaged... this couldn't possibly be anything to do with it could it?

Happy christmas anyway guys =D