I was charged £113.45 after firm insisted petrol station fine was mine to pay despite evidence to the contrary

On 27 July, I hired a car with Enterprise Car Club to visit the seaside with my family. Two weeks ago I received a fine from the company for unpaid fuel at a BP station in Attleborough in Norfolk. It had paid the collections agency £41.45 for the fuel, and the legal firm’s £42 fee, and added a £30 processing fee of its own, so a total of £113.45.

I thought it was strange because I hadn’t been in Norfolk that day or that month, and indeed I’ve never been to Attleborough. I even double-checked my Google Maps timeline to make sure, and I was nowhere near there.

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