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).
Other sites state this is some supposed energy company. These are just more criminals preying on people in an attempt to con us out of monies. They ignore the Do Not Call List. Do not talk with these criminals if you answer your phone, and block this number if you have such a device. If not, look into getting one (Amazon.com). I got a call from these idiots, and they are blocked! I believe these are the same idiots who have been calling--just using new "spoofed" numbers.
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).
I've been getting calls from these people for months now...At least twice a week. They use a different spoofed phone number everytime they call, so blocking doesn't help. Sometimes they use Sustainable Energy Institute, but their official name is Sustainable Energy Outreach LLC. They have job openings posted for "appointment setters" listed on LinkedIn and the interesting thing is resumes are instructed to be sent to a nrgremodeling.com email address. So I'm guessing Sustainable Energy Outreach is just front for Energy Remodeling Inc's aggressive telemarketing efforts.