It’s the time of year when my clients all get these emails, such a fucking scam. Energy companies are grasping cunts. Come next August they’ll refund £300 odd quid after having held that money in their account for 12 months. Times that by several million people and high interest rates…
I told Octopus to do one when they wanted to put my monthly payment up by 20% back in April, I think it was. *I* will have the interest, thank you very much.
I do wonder at what point financial services regulations kick in? Like, are you de facto acting like a bank, unwillingly holding people's money?
‘As thought it looked like you weren’t using that money, so we thought we’d use it instead’ is a hell of a business model. Sometimes referred to as ‘theft’ I think.