A woman given a phone number previously used by the director of the failed school lunch provider, Libelle Group, has described the “panic” she felt after being contacted about the company’s debts.
The case of mistaken identity started “very soon” after Anjolene May bought a new cell phone, and with it a new number, from One NZ in July last year.
At first, the 23-year-old from Christchurch thought nothing of the texts and calls, telling whoever contacted her they had the wrong number and it was “no problem”.
But when texts began to arrive from the Ministry of Justice about unpaid fines, and from a car loan company owed more than $11,000, she became nervous.
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