Bailiff sent you a text to say they are coming to enforce a debt, but with no number to call back on.

Its bailiffs trying to find out where you live, get your location and your bank details under the threat of a confrontation with bailiffs.

The number was obtained by the bailiff from the DVLA and is the same number you put on the V5 when you bought your car.

Never click on a link or download an app in a bailiffs text message. Block their number and all private or anonymous numbers from sending you texts.

If you get an unsolicited text message from a bailiff company, it means you have an unpaid traffic contravention debt at a previous address, and the bailiff has taken the law into their own hands and is trying to trace you then ambush you with enforcement without giving you a statutory Notice to Owner or a Notice of Enforcement.

The Unsolicited message should be forwarded to your mobile service provider,^[1] who can trace the source of the message, and if necessary, cancel their subscription for abuse of services.

Anyone sending to another person, electronic communication which conveys a message which is indecent or grossly offensive, a threat, or information which is false, or of an indecent or grossly offensive nature, is guilty of an offence.^[2]

A person is guilty of an offence if he sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or causes any such message or matter to be so sent.^[3]

A person must not pursue a course of conduct, which amounts to harassment of another, and which he knows or ought to know amounts to harassment of the other, otherwise, he commits an offence.^[4]

If the sender is a company, then every person who is knowingly a party to the carrying on of the business in that manner commits an offence.^[5]

^{[1] See Bailiffs sending nuisance text messages
[2] Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988
[3] Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003
[4] Section 2 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997
[5] Section 993 of the Companies Act 2006}