Engaging with electricity supply marketers
Many Boston residents have been approached by electricity supply marketers looking to sign them up for an electricity contract. Sometimes these interactions can be unwelcome and the marketers can employ aggressive, predatory, or deceptive sales tactics. We've compiled a set of tips for engaging with marketers.
How to engage with marketers
Engaging marketersDecline requests to discuss your electric supply options from anyone who claims to work for, or with, Eversource. Eversource will never reach out to discuss your electric supply options. Sometimes marketers or scam artists will pretend to be from, or work with, your utility. They do not. This is called an "imposter" scam.
Call Eversource to verify any requests, or to confirm that they sent a representative to your door. Don’t dial the phone number a stranger provides.
Ask door-to-door marketers for their identification. This includes their:
- name and photo
- worker ID number
- company name, and
- company logo.
Only provide your account information after you agree to sign a contract, and not before. While it’s against the law, if someone obtains your electric account information, they may try to change your electric supplier without your authorization. This is called “slamming.”
Remember that you have up to three days to cancel any signed contract free of penalty.
