Details possibly leaked to scammers.
At 3 pm today, Saturday 29 October, was doorknocked from sales rep, Robiul, from RedEnergy who gave me their pitch about switching electricity supply to them. Sounded reasonable, I was interested to save money (like 12% on my previous bill) and I provided my details for them to send me documentation. Then at 8 pm tonite got a call from a scammer, supposedly in Perth (number uncontactable), claiming to be a "financial advisor" wanting to peddle a financial product so i hung up. Just too coincidental getting a scam call so soon after providing my details (name, address, phone number and Medicare number). Seems obvious to me that my details have been leaked to scammers. In view of the extent of scamming these days, and the adverse reviews I've read here (many thanks for the info), I won't run the risk of changing from my hitherto reliable supplier in order to possibly save a few hundred dollars a year at the expense of frustration and lousy service.