Energy Firm Cops Huge Fine for Dodgy Door-to-Door Sales

Energy Firm Cops Huge Fine for Dodgy Door-to-Door Sales
A close up of a power bill in Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 22, 2012. Quinn Rooney/Getty Images
|Updated:
0:00

Power and gas company Sumo will fork out $10 million (US$6.4 million) for door-to-door sales in the largest ever penalty for breaches of one state’s energy laws.

Companies are banned from calling on a customer at home to negotiate contracts without their direct consent, but Sumo admitted to doing so almost 6000 times between January and August 2022.

AAP
AAP
Author
Australian Associated Press is an Australian news agency.