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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.

Date: 2016-03-04 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ron_newman
What I'd like to know is, why has this industry been given a carve-out exception from the state and federal Do Not Call regulations, and how can we change this?

Here's the earlier thread, whose title I recognized because I'm the one who posted it.
Edited Date: 2016-03-04 07:47 pm (UTC)

Utility scammers

Date: 2016-03-05 04:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smk0307.livejournal.com
A few months ago I had something similar happen to me. Someone purporting to be from Comcast buzzed my apartment, showed me a device and said Comcast had sent him to install it. He had a red shirt with what looked like a Comcast logo and an identification badge on a lanyard. It was turned over, but he flashed it at me when I questioned him. I didn't buy it and sent him away.

Date: 2016-03-11 02:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] craigindaville.livejournal.com
These scammers bother me to no end; they have started coming around Somerville the last two spring/summers, and while I know that what they're selling is snake oil, I always think about and worry about neighbors of mine who are susceptible to these claims, either due to language issues or being elderly and overly trusting. They prey on those people to sell a product that, while legal, usually results in higher prices, sometimes to frightening degrees.

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.

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