A friend of mine who owns some property let one of his flats some months ago, the tenant requested that a gas meter be fitted. This took a considerable time to arrange, and became extremely complicated, but finally a date was given last week. My friend then received a phone call purportedly from British Gas requiring a £500 deposit immediately, to which he replied that it was the tenant that had requested it and was up to her to pay, and passed on his tenant’s phone number. The tenant was then called, and the caller became somewhat hostile, to which she said to cancel the installation. However a day before the installation my friend received a call from the contractors to arrange a time the next day for fitting, the job was then completed with no problem. The telephone number from the person demanding money was blocked so a return call could not be made, so looks like a scam to me, but they had all the details of the installation.