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Jul 6, 2016
This seems to be a spammy phone call from a company that claims to be the "Sustainable Energy Institute" but they are not the one that was in DC, publishing reports in the early 2000s. They seem to be a third-party seller for different energy sellers (perhaps solar companies, based on other reviews of that company name). They ask whether I'm the home owner and if I pay more than $75/month in electric bills. If so, I may be eligible to receive up to 70% of the costs covered to reduce my electric bill to nothing (sounds like solar to me!)
When I ask them for their website, the South-Asian sounding guy gets his boss on the line who has a British-South Asian accent, I believe, and she tells me to go to www.energy.gov, which is the US Dept of Energy. I ask her if they work for the Dept of Energy and she says no, they're a nonprofit helping to "educate" the public about these valuable energy-cost-savings programs. Uh, no thanks. I ask her what their nonprofit website is and she tells me that the energy.gov site has the best info. I explain to her that I'm wary of scams where third-party groups try to sell my info to contractors and she tells me that's not what this is (sure, mmkay).
When I ask them for their website, the South-Asian sounding guy gets his boss on the line who has a British-South Asian accent, I believe, and she tells me to go to www.energy.gov, which is the US Dept of Energy. I ask her if they work for the Dept of Energy and she says no, they're a nonprofit helping to "educate" the public about these valuable energy-cost-savings programs. Uh, no thanks. I ask her what their nonprofit website is and she tells me that the energy.gov site has the best info. I explain to her that I'm wary of scams where third-party groups try to sell my info to contractors and she tells me that's not what this is (sure, mmkay).