can a debt chase me after 4 years
when i was a teenager 16/17 i started working, opened my own bank account, the norm, my mother who was blacklisted at the time asked if she could open one or two mail order catalogues in my name, in my stupidity i agreed. some time later it all seemed to be ok, until i started receiving letters from other catalogues i didn't recognise, it turned out my mother had opened a further 8 accounts with others. at the time i knew there was nothing i could do, she had already ordered with them and the accounts had to be settled, within the next year they had all been defaulted and passed to debt collection agents somewhere between 1999-2002, this obviously ruined my credit, but my mother has paid most of them off in the last few years,when i moved out 3 years ago there was a few left to pay, all still in my name, i tried applying for a job with barclays, when i asked equifax for a credit report i was amazed to see exactly what was defaulted, including 3 CCJ's and how much the agencies were still owed, my name was now worse than mud. only the other day 22/12/08, i received a letter from a debt collecton agency saying i still owed �967, a debt i thought was settled, now bear in mind i have received no correspondence from any agency in a number of years. i have been suscribing most of the year to experian online, they have reported nothing of any outstanding debts.
when i phoned the agency they said they had tried to send letters to my previous address and that the company they used to find me was equifax.
i guess my question would be, do i still have to pay this debt? even though none of them were my fault anyway?is there anyway i could change them to mothers name?even with two credit reporting agencies (experian/equifax) stating different things, could i have this debt written off?