Victim Location 79912
Type of a scam Utility
The note was left on my door, the doorbell was never rung. I called the phone number thinking it was the water company. A lady answered and said that several residents have complained about the water quality and asked if they could do a free test. I said ok and 2 men were sent to my home. The men didn’t have identification. One was wearing a vest with a WQA and NASA logo. They were in a white crossover with no identifying logos. They proceeded to run tests by comparing my tap water and bottled water to check for contaminants and ph. The tap water changed colors and textures as expected. The men spoke little English and their literature was in spanish. They also showed me some videos on a laptop. They then said the solution is a ‘program’ that they were offering but did not give any details about the program. When asked if they had business cards they replied they didn’t have any. After the test was done I asked them to leave and they left.
Victim Location 20850
Type of a scam Utility
The Water Quality Association came to our house, stating that they wanted to test the quality of our water and that it would take 25 minutes. They said that they were hired and paid by the government to do so. In the end, it turned out that they wanted to sell us a $15,000 water purification system after they had scared us with lies about our tap water and by doing fake tests supposedly showing us how bad the water quality was. They stated that the tap water came directly from chemically treated household waste water (which includes medicine waste, fecal waste, detergents, etc) and showed us a chart in which the household waste water went to the waste water treatment and then directly back to the households as drinking water full with chemicals that can cause cancer. Afterwards they told is that in order to protect our family we needed to buy an expensive water purification system for which they could get us a special discount. In sum, they entered the house on the false grounds that they were asked by the government to test the water quality and then tried to sell us an expensive water purification system after having scared us for 1,5 hours about the deadly health effects of our tap water.