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I'm posting to let people know the shady utility marketers are back, if they ever left.
Last night I had an unsolicited visit to my front door by a guy who represented himself (vaguely) as from Eversource, here to roll back my rate increase if I would just show him an electric bill. I have little doubt he was a shady marketer for an alternative electricity supplier. If he wasn't that, I don't know what he was, because he certainly wasn't from Eversource.
My phone rang just then so I used that as an excuse - I told him this call was important and I couldn't talk & closed the door in his face. So I never got who he actually represented.
I recognized the modus operandi thanks to my memory of a thread here just exactly a year ago ("Phone call from "PalmCo" wanting to change my electricity supplier"). Since that was useful to me, I thought I'd return the favor by warning those here who may be new here or have forgotten. I trust that no one here would show a bill, but it's much easier to react appropriately if you immediately recognize what's going on.
Last night I had an unsolicited visit to my front door by a guy who represented himself (vaguely) as from Eversource, here to roll back my rate increase if I would just show him an electric bill. I have little doubt he was a shady marketer for an alternative electricity supplier. If he wasn't that, I don't know what he was, because he certainly wasn't from Eversource.
My phone rang just then so I used that as an excuse - I told him this call was important and I couldn't talk & closed the door in his face. So I never got who he actually represented.
I recognized the modus operandi thanks to my memory of a thread here just exactly a year ago ("Phone call from "PalmCo" wanting to change my electricity supplier"). Since that was useful to me, I thought I'd return the favor by warning those here who may be new here or have forgotten. I trust that no one here would show a bill, but it's much easier to react appropriately if you immediately recognize what's going on.
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Date: 2016-03-04 07:46 pm (UTC)Here's the earlier thread, whose title I recognized because I'm the one who posted it.
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Date: 2016-03-04 08:04 pm (UTC)But for those who do call, I wonder if they consider your preexisting relationship with the utility to cover them, or if they're just gambling that 99% of recipients won't report them to the Feds?
Utility scammers
Date: 2016-03-05 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-11 02:59 am (UTC)Never mind the really shady ones who use the "look at the bill" tactic to get the info they need to just sign you up without your permission. By the time you've figured it out, that scammer is long gone and got the commission for "signing" you up. There's a special place in hell for these douchecanoes.