I called them - long delay - someone talked - just enough to say hello..then bad connection (Comcast) and they hung up.. could not make out anything they said.. breaking up.. (comcast great connection)
When they first called me.. Hello I said.. no one responded.. so I told them to pound sand and hung up.
I received a call just now from 857-444-0140. The person picked up after I said "hello", so I'm guessing robo-caller. They mumbled the name of the company and the name of whoever was speaking, and asked to speak to the person in whose name the electric bill appears. I asked if they were National Grid (my electricity provider) and they said to the effect that no, they were not national grid, but they were calling on Nat Grid's behalf, and tried to verify that I was the person on the electric bill. They then went into a spiel about how they were calling because Nat Grid and the news have been reporting that electric rates in my area are going to be rising come Nov and again in Jan (up to 37%) and they could offer price protection. Smelling scam/phish I terminated the call and asked to be put on the no call list. I was hanging up as the person was still talking and trying to explain further (I assume).
I got the same call; didn't quite get the name of the company but they said that they were working with National Grid regarding my electric bill. I explained that 1) my town did their own private electricity and 2) anyone not using the National Do Not Call list was obviously a scammer; she insisted that they were not scammers and said that she would put my number on their Do Not Call list and I again told her that scam companies are the ones that ignore the DNC.
Called today at 12:12 pm and "MA Energy" came up on caller ID. I did not answer as I never answer a call from a number or name I do not know. They left no voice mail. I did get a call a while back that did leave a message similar to those described above with no caller ID and assumed it was political - it is that season after all!
just got this call few minutes ago (857-444-0140). sort of screams a scam of some sort....
Caller: Is this the person responsible for electric bill?
Me: Why do you ask?
Caller: I need to.
Me: That's not an answer
Caller: Well, it's my answer.
Me: It's not an answer. Who are you with?
Caller: Listen to how you talk. (Caller then hung up)