Has anyone had a driving licence issued to a fraudster at their address?

[shareofhouse]

I would be grateful to hear if anyone else locally (and particularly in Southwark borough) has discovered that a fraudster has managed to get a driving licence issued using their address.

As driving licences are one of the few documents (along with passports) accepted as proof of identity for supposedly the most secure transactions in our lives, eg CRB checks, opening of bank accounts, etc. I was rather shocked to find that a full licence had been issued at my address to a person who has never lived here and of whom I have never heard. I have also had fraudulent credit applications made in my name and in fraudsters' names.

When I called the DVLA to ask how this could have happened, they told me to send back to them the document which they sent to my address, through which I learned that they had issued a driving licence to a fraudster.

I didn't send it back, as it was the only proof I had that this had happened. I did send them a oomplaint and a request for an explanation but I haven't had a response to my complaint.

I noticed that a few months ago, Southwark and Lambeth Councils had their access to the DVLA database stopped and this has led me to wonder if this is connnected to the fraud that has happened using my address. It was news to me that council employees were allowed to access this anyway, as it obviously is going to compromise the security of your data.

I would be very intersted to know if this has happened to anyone else locally and to hear from anyone who knows what abuses led to Southwark and Lambeth councils being banned from having access to the DVLA database.

[kristen]

Yes this is similar to something that happened to me - I'll pm you more details

[uncleglen]

My sister lived in a house that had been converted into 2 flats with a shared front door. She knew the name of the upstairs resident and if post came for her she would put it through the upstairs door. However, when she was on bereavement leave, many items of post in official brown envelopes were delivered with different names not matching her name nor the upstairs resident's name. My sister wrote on the envelopes 'not known at this address' and re-posted them.

The woman upstairs asked my sister if she had seen any post and when my sister told her what she had done the woman became irate. My sister then told the police about the post.