********** ACCOUNT OPENED BY EDGARS

<p>After finding out there were ********** accounts opened in my name I have been trying without success to close the account Edgars deemed fit to open in my name using a very obviously **** bank statement and salary slips. They clearly did no checks before authorising an account.</p> <p>Closing this account is proving impossibly yet all the other stores whom she opened accounts with have either closed or in the process of closing.. I cannot so much as get a return call or email response from Edgars/Edcon. </p> <p> </p> <p>I have been treated worse than a ********, threatened that if I do not pay the account I will be blacklisted even though the perpetrator was arrested in Truworths on Sa****ay 18th June. I have offered to send copies of letters from Standard bank stating the bank statements used to open the account are ********** but thus far Edgars have neither accepted the information or assisted me in anyway whatsoever. </p> <p> </p> <p>Identity theft is a very traumatic experience at best and having to endure the humilation of being treated like a ******** is just unacceptable by anyones standards. I say SHAME ON EDGARS for their lack of humanity and SERVICE.</p> <p> </p> <p>A little extract from one of the other stores that accounts were erronously opened...</p> <p>I wish I could help you with Edgars but unfortunately I don’t have a contact there, the one I had she no longer works for the Edcon group.</p> <p>It’s a simple investigation as all the facts are there and confirming that it’s a ***** account it shouldn’t actually take more than a day or Two to finalize.</p> <p> </p> <p>IT IS NOW 6 DAYS WITH NOT A WORD FROM EDGARS even though I have been into their stores numerous times to try and sort out as they were the only store requiring I come in in person and dispute the account.</p>