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I usually pay my TV license on a Thursday, by installments obviously. For the first time last week i jibbed payment with the full intention of paying double this week.
Today, i get a text informing me that i'm behind...
My mum has just rang me! Tv licensing have just rang her, asking for me!!! How the duck did they get her number? At 38 years of age i'm finding myself explaining to my mum why they looking for me? Am fuming! Opinions please apart from the 'pay ya bills on time' and 'we dont get an installment option' Brigade. My issue here is Data Protection.

Doggie call?

Dont think its dodgy as such tc coz its true, i'm 4 days behind so it cant be co incidence! Sorry gang for the duel post. Lets stick to this one. I did try to delete the other!

Huh, my case is too sensitive, i`m with vodaphone which my girlfriend got me, i was asked to set up a `password` to access my account when i ring up, anyway, they have obviously missheard me as my password `sounds like` the password they have.!
i only wanted to know when my next bill was due but i got the `unable to speak to you without the password due to the Data protection act` crap!

i would`nt need to speak to them but they cannot be trusted, the 1st bill was taken out of somebody elses bank who i`ve never heard of??? (that was sorted but i bet the other person got charged by the bank), then the second bill was alright but the third bill i was charged TWICE! so now due to THIER errors i have to check to see when my bill is due & if it has been paid BUT due to their mess up and the `data protection act` i cannot even find out that!

I havent got a clue how they got my mums number!!! I left home at 18 years old. Lived in 3 or 4 addresses since! My point being how fookin dare they involve my mum? And how have they traced me back?
we are talking a 4 day late overdue payment not a 5 yr "a squirrel shit in the tele" avoidant payer.

that is strange!

dont sound right for being 4 days late, it costs money to trace peeps but it is pretty easy, sounds ridiculous over a 4 day mispayment though! Ask your mum to do the 1471 thing and see what comes up?

Ste, am fuming!! I'll be ranting tomoz to them. Why the fook should i be put in a posistion where i have to explain my financial situation to my mum, who is now 'concerned' about it, as a daughter i have had to disclose personal details, to my mother. Personal stuff, that at 38 years of age ive had to explain!

Honest to God, last Thur the payment was due!
if i'd done wrong i wouldnt bother ranting on here!! Few days late and their giving, what could have been a stranger my marital title, christian and surname?

Past Electoral register entries?

I was a 'kid' at my mums address and i had a differant surname?
why all this digging for a few days late?

Hmm. Very strange. Highlights something I've always been avid about - most government organisations have access to knowledge bases and search systems that we just dare not think about.

I'd be livid too thats for sure. Being late with a payment is nobodies business but yours, amazing that they called your mum.

-> Maybe you have ECHELON involvement -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_%28signals_intelligence%29

Fookin Grrrs. I am so so angry!! The majority of you know me as 'rudebox' but to those who know my name n address etc, i wouldnt expect them to go n research my fookin family tree and that? So how dare the tv fooking licensing peeps? And again, i re iterate over a 4 day overdue payment!!!

data base did any of us see that coming while we fill stupid forms in thinking nothing of it all along we were allowing them to dig as deep as they wanted into our private life TELL THEM FOOK ALL

I give them no landline number and the number of my 'brick' ie an old unused moby! No way 100 p.c would i have give them my mums number!! I'd bet my own Death on it, i'm that sure!!!!!