RAA insurance “collector” came to house? Weird?

Damn, I post a lot of weird happenings here. I really do attract the strange ones.

Anyway, without over explaining, my partner got stopped in the driveway coming home this morning at 9am by an “old white guy with a binder” who said he was from RAA. He addressed my partner by name and then said he was here about an insurance claim where he was responsible for damaging another car in the car he was driving.

Apparently, according to this guy, my partner did $5k worth of damage to another car in the Marion car park in November 2022. Even told my partner the name of the person whose car it was allegedly??

My partner told the guy that he had no idea what he was talking about, and that it definitely wasn’t him as we’ve never been in a car accident (touch wood) let alone one big enough to rack up $5k in insurance debt.

I said it seemed like a scam when my partner went inside to tell me. It did not seem legit at all. Instead, I insisted he reported it to the police.

I should add we haven’t received any kind of correspondence via mail or phone from any insurance company either.

Is this like… a known scam? Or something?

NOTE: It happened in the western suburbs.