Mayor: door-to-door Salesmen misleading customers

Mayor: door-to-door Salesmen misleading customersAug 13, 2011 (Portsmouth Daily Times-McClatchy-Tribune information services via COMTEX)-Portsmouth Mayor David Malone issued a warning to residents Friday morning to be on the look out for misrepresenting themselves as employees of the communications frontier of door-to-door salespeople. Malone said he has received an email this week from a Portsmouth resident who says the Mayor that they and their parents are frontier communications customers, and that someone claiming to be from the frontier contacted them asking them to pass the phone companies. They were interested by this action and notified the city. Dave George, CEO of frontier communications, said that there are indeed representatives of frontier going door-to-door in asking people to sign up for the border and offer new services to existing customers. But George said there is also another company going door to door around Scioto County represent themselves as a frontier Communications, although they are not. "We had a problem with American Broadband, which is a company offering competitive services through our telephone lines. We had a problem with representing themselves as the local telephone company or representatives of the border and taking customers from us, and we have issued a cease and desist letter on that particular marketing tactics in early July, "George said. George said that frontier has met American Broadband throughout Ohio and parts of Scioto County. A representative for American broadband did not return calls to comment on Friday. "If someone comes to the door, claiming to be the border, should have a uniform border and should also have an ID badge that says that I am an employee of the border or an entrepreneur who works for the border," said George. Malone reminds residents to always seek proper ID and call the phone company, if you're not sure if the person at your door is really a frontier communications representative. More importantly, he said, don't let them inside your House. Portsmouth police were notified and will be watching the neighborhoods. RYAN SCOTT OTTNEY can be reached at (740) 353-3101, ext. 235, or rottney@heartlandpublications.com. To see more of the Portsmouth Daily Times, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go
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