{"id":11560,"date":"2016-04-28T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/3000-bill-from-british-gas-and-im-not-even-a-customer\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:04:18","slug":"3000-bill-from-british-gas-and-im-not-even-a-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/3000-bill-from-british-gas-and-im-not-even-a-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a33,000 bill from British Gas \u2026and I\u2019m not even a customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been harassed over six years and threatened by debt collectorsFor six years British Gas has been harassing me to pay a bill for more than \u00a33,000 even though I have never been a customer. It started in 2010 when I applied to move to Sainsbury\u2019s Energy, supplied by British Gas. British Gas wrote to say it was connecting an address in Dartford I\u2019d never heard of. I told it to cancel the switch and I stayed with E.ON. Since then British Gas has sent bills, and I\u2019ve had letters from debt collectors threatening to apply for a warrant to enter my home and fit a prepayment meter. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2016\/apr\/28\/3000-bill-british-gas-not-even-customer\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a33,000 bill from British Gas \u2026and I\u2019m not even a customer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; I\u2019ve been harassed over six years and threatened by debt collectorsFor six years British Gas&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-30s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11564,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/british-gas-raised-my-monthly-bill-from-5-to-a-scorching-866\/","url_meta":{"origin":11560,"position":0},"title":"British Gas raised my monthly bill from \u00a35 to a scorching \u00a3866","date":"September 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Energy firm is turning up the heat, claiming I owe more than \u00a34,500I have just had a letter from British Gas telling me that my direct debit payments are increasing from \u00a35 a month to \u00a3866 a month. 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