Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI
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Company's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge
British energy company SSE Energy Supply refused to believe that there was no unit 8b at the property of Lyle Hopkins, a doctoral student at the University of Oxford.
For more than 20 months, the company billed Hopkins at business rates, a total of £1,091.01, for an unused electricity meter on the property that had been associated with a previous owner's unsuccessful effort to convert the property into flats.
A company representative even sent an email on June 15, 2024, stating that Hopkins was not liable. Nonetheless, SSE then sent in debt collectors to recover debt attributed to a disconnected meter for a non-existent address.
He never paid the bill. But he wanted the harassment to end.
So Hopkins, a software engineer working on his PhD at Oxford Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP, turned to GPT-5.5...
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