If an Energy Service Company (ESCO) rep comes to your door, trust your instinct and don't give them any information. It's been a while since they made news, but they are known for scamming people into electric and gas contracts with promises of savings, then requiring enormous fees to get out of those contacts.
Seems they're back in the area. Brenda sends over an account from the other night:
Watch out--the energy scammers are back. We just got an aggressive one (at 9 pm on a Friday nite!) asking to "see our Con Ed bill" to help us with, undoubtedly, great (and mythical) savings from some ESCO you never heard of. (Wish I could recall the name on her grubby ID badge, but I can't.) She got very huffy when I told her we didn't share information with strangers ringing the doorbell, and handed me a sheet of paper supposedly showing all good things--it turned out to be a printout of a basic info sheet from NY State website. Not so much as a brochure or business card to offer! I guess they get your info, then cut and run, or bait and switch, or whatever the heck it is they do. Bottom line: Beware, and don't go changing your energy provider to someone you meet on the front porch!
Has anyone else had an ESCO encounter recently, or any luck with reporting one?
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