You. Filthy. Bastards.
Jan. 8th, 2014 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reynardoWe've been in our current house about 3 years. We get our electricity from AGL (and a pretty nice refund for the solar) and the background supplier is Jemena.
So when this letter arrived today, addressed to "The Occupant, [Home Address Redacted]", I was a little thrown.
Then as angry as hell.
Wanna read a scam?
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Welcome to Simply Energy. We wish to inform you that Simply Energy currently supplies electricity and/or gas for [Home Address Redacted].
However we have become aware that the customer we have been supplying at this address may have moved away. We would therefore like you, as the current occupier, to contact us immediately on 1800 009 146 and confirm your name and contact details so that we may:
* Verify that you, as an existing customer of Simply Energy, still live at this address; or
* Talk to you, as a new occupier of these premises, about setting up an account with Simply Energy.
If you do not contact us by 27-01-2014 then we may disconnect these premises without further notice.
Yours sincerely,
etc. etc. etc.
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We wish to inform you that Simply Energy currently supplies electricity and/or gas for [Home Address Redacted] NO THEY SMEGGING WELL DON'T!
It's a scare tactic. Ring them, give lots of your private details, and they'll swap you over anyway without your permission.
I've reported them to the Victorian Consumer Affairs department. And tomorrow? I'll ring them. And oh boy will I be giving them a piece of my mind.
Politely, of course.
Anyone else in Melbourne been hit by this?
So when this letter arrived today, addressed to "The Occupant, [Home Address Redacted]", I was a little thrown.
Then as angry as hell.
Wanna read a scam?
------------------------------------
Welcome to Simply Energy. We wish to inform you that Simply Energy currently supplies electricity and/or gas for [Home Address Redacted].
However we have become aware that the customer we have been supplying at this address may have moved away. We would therefore like you, as the current occupier, to contact us immediately on 1800 009 146 and confirm your name and contact details so that we may:
* Verify that you, as an existing customer of Simply Energy, still live at this address; or
* Talk to you, as a new occupier of these premises, about setting up an account with Simply Energy.
If you do not contact us by 27-01-2014 then we may disconnect these premises without further notice.
Yours sincerely,
etc. etc. etc.
--------------------------------------
We wish to inform you that Simply Energy currently supplies electricity and/or gas for [Home Address Redacted] NO THEY SMEGGING WELL DON'T!
It's a scare tactic. Ring them, give lots of your private details, and they'll swap you over anyway without your permission.
I've reported them to the Victorian Consumer Affairs department. And tomorrow? I'll ring them. And oh boy will I be giving them a piece of my mind.
Politely, of course.
Anyone else in Melbourne been hit by this?
