Originally Posted By NUCLEAR

Don't pay it then... Tell him to take you to court...

Originally Posted By RAKOON

ruined: Lechat en vacances, à qui m'a jaser moi a ma job?

Originally Posted By MASA

... no proof of those lease terms, i.e. included phone line? hope you can manage to retrace your old address, that'd be the first step to proving your innocence. i'm pretty sure you MUST've left some proof of residence somewhere during that period.

and dude, not being able to get the actual amount from Bell is stupid. aren't THEY the ones hiring the collection agency? how can those numbers not match?

Originally Posted By SCREWHEAD

Well the old address is a matter of Google Earth, didn't think of it at the time.. just Streetview to the place and that'll get me the address.. As for leaving some sort of proof of residence, yeah there's got to be some, but very, very little..

part of the whole problem with this bullshit is that I was helping the landlord (a friend at the time) out with some shit for how he wanted to rent the place out..

he wanted to rent out individual rooms, but to do that you have to get the Regie to inspect the place, and it was in horrible conditions, so to help him out on that I signed a lease for the whole place so that he only had to declare one tenant and didn't need to get the place inspected, but he also never gave me a copy of the leases, because I could have used it to get the Regie on his ass to make the place a little more livable (had to wear winter jackets/multiple pants indoors in winter or freeze to death - at various spots all over the appartment there were cracks at the base of the walls that you could pretty much look directly outside, so there was constantly a winter breeze going through the place, not to mention that the 'included fridge' worked for about a month, and then broke down for about 6 and he never replaced it - couldn't even keep milk in the freezer.. And the pipe from the upstairs neighbor's toilet was broken, so every time he flushed, the pissy/shitty water would leak down onto our toilet - took easily over 4 months to get that fixed..)

The whole thing was a major clusterfuck. And with how Bell worked at the time, I was paying the internet with my credit card, so they never mailed any bills for that, just took the monthly deductions.. Even when I tried to get on welfare, he didn't want to give me a copy of the lease, didn't want to sign a paper from Welfare saying I lived there, and outright told the case worker that I hadn't lived in the apartment for more than a couple of months (when it was close to a year I'd lived there).

Yeah, it's fucking retarded.. part of me is thinking someone is trying to scam me into just giving them a large chunk of cash by scaring me into thinking a collection agency is going to come after me, but a few things in this whole bullshit make me think that the landlord most probably used the info I filled out for him to set up a phone line in my name that he ended up not paying or running up the bill on and ditching.

Originally Posted By MASA

Wow, yeah, über-sketchy situation :/
Depending on how long ago that was, there are probably still records of those bills somewhere. Especially since it's unpaid.
Do you remember what kinda personal info you gave that guy?