"due to recent deregulations in new york you can now lowe your electric bill  press 3 if youare not interested in lowering you electric bill or press 5 to speak with an operator...."

Deregulation in new york happen years ago, not 'recently"

didn't know the number

CallerID:  Utility

"due to recent deregulations you can now lower your electric bill  press 3 if you are not interested in lowering you electric bill or press 5 to speak with an operator...."

I got a call today from a new number 209-220-1940 "LOWER ELECTRIC" I did not answer or let it go to answering machine. Reading the posts here I see it's that same old automated call about deregulation and CON ED . I believe that this call was generated by a telemarketing company working for Spark Energy they are known for this type of call to cellphones and land lines.  I have received calls like this from them on my cellphone and complained to them by email. they did respond and stopped. it seems that they are responsible for these calls using several numbers 206-397-1111 ENERGY DISCOUNT,  306-397-1111 . One thing to be aware of if you live in NYC that there are about 50 ESCO companies that are listed some of which have been reported to be part of this telemarketing scam. Spark Energy is one also City Power and Gas, Browns fuel Service, Ameristar Energy. A list of all the companies can be found on the CON ED website poweryourway.com the list includes companies that offer gas and electric services and may be small companies that are expanding to other states trying to get new costumers .

They use multiple numbers coming from, apparently CA, Washington state, NJ, NY MD and a host of other places. If you are on the DO NOT CALL LIST, they can be fined (which we are). We pressed the number for "not interested" and they keep calling back. Very aggressive and a complete turn-off.

http://www.fcc.gov/contact-us  
to file complaints and get names of people in US gov't to contact directly about this issue.