similar things happen in this country, but not always to the scammers' advantage. My gas supply was switched without my authorisation several years ago, but for some reason I stopped receiving bills addressed to me, although some did arrive addressed to a woman I didn't know and who to my knowledge has never lived here. Eventually the gas supplier tried to collect on a bill that was close to £1000-. Naturally I refused to pay - if someone chooses to supply me with free gas that's up to them. After several increasingly irate calls from their credit controllers, including offers for me to pay only 50%, I told them I would pay in full if and only if they could produce a contract to supply which contained my signature. A few weeks later I received a letter saying that they had written off the charges. During this period I also searched the internet to see if other people had had similar problems, and there pages full of it.
I get my gas supply from the PDML now. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Fernando > Sent: 17 May 2007 00:54 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Waaay OT: Internet is great. Just for ppl living in Canada > > Today, I arrived to my appartment and a couple of gentlemen acted as > if they were working with the building management, to review that the > appartments had proper Hydro protection, they asked for my hydro bill > and came with a well prepared speech, trying not to clarify that they > were not working for the building administration nor for the Hydro > company, when asked directly for the name of the company they were > working for, they finally answer that they were from "Universal > Powers" I asked them to wait, and a simple goggle search with the > words "Universal Powers" and "rip off" gave this link > > http://www.peoplefield.org/forums/disp_post.cfm/cc.709/o_r.21/ > clt.13/p.htm > > revealing that there's people suing these guys for these sales > practices and because their energy bill went up after getting this > service. > > I'm not religious but, god bless internet. > > Anyway, I felt obligated to tell this in case some of you are the next > target of this guys. > > Cheerio > > Fernando > > > > > > -- > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
