Now they're talking about high-quality natural gas and shutting down your heating system!
In recent years, we have repeatedly analyzed emails in which recipients were told stories by fake authorities or alleged tradesmen that were intended to persuade them to buy a new heating system. Sometimes it was a non-existent citizen information center , sometimes it was a chimney sweep named Bernd Peters or Giesela Knapp from the public utilities department GA3 .
Much ado about nothing, because all of these people and institutions come from the realm of dubious marketing strategies. A fairy tale book of advertising methods, which we can now expand with a new chapter. Allow me, Nelly Morgenstern, customer service:
Subject: Decommissioning / checking your heating
Hello, customer no.
13475, we think you should know this:
Natural gas will be switched over throughout Germany in the coming months.
Your network operator should convert old heaters free of charge so that they can work as usual with the higher quality gas. But if your heating system is too old, it may no longer be possible to convert it.
You will then have to buy/install a new heater yourself. Alternatively: Get a new heating system at zero cost now thanks to EU funding!
This way you are safe when making the switch and you don't have to spend any money. In addition, this year there will be a cash grant of 16,298 euros to your bank account. Request all information without obligation.
Best regards,
Nelly Morgenstern
customer service
What's behind it?
This content has been moving through email boxes in ever-changing form for years. On a purely technical level, we can give the all-clear because this is neither malware nor really classic phishing. The built-in link leads to a website with the address “heizsaktion.com”. Here you will find a form that you can use to arrange a consultation appointment (with whomever). At this point it becomes clear: it is advertising and a business model. The page that you land on via the link from the email does not have an imprint. You have to go directly to the main page by hand to discover an imprint. Here the mention of a “European Energy Association GmbH” appears in the legal notice, for which you can already find entries on the web. In the Anti-Spam forum you can find [ 1]:
Apparently the following phone number answers after data entry: 022116535665 Known at Tellows as a heating junk shop. http://www.tellows.de/num/022116535665
If you now check this information on Tellows (a rating portal for phone numbers), you will find the following information about this phone number [ 2 ]. We quote:
The company Energy World wants to sell a heater for €0.00 Plus €10,500 back from the state Haha ATTENTION Fraud: Because the heater actually costs €25-30 thousand That's about €280-380 Monthly costs plus energy Heating oil/gas costs That's what you pay for no more electricity costs. But there is still fraud, because the heating is advertised for €0....!!!! Plus gag contracts, little chance of getting out once someone was in the house. He calculates everything beautifully but never calculates the truth. In my opinion this should be banned
(Screenshot: heizsaktion.com)
The website Spam-info.de wrote about this in an article in June 2017:
There you can have your funding amount calculated if you leave personal information such as your name, telephone number and postal code.
This is all relayed over an unencrypted connection. The site's imprint is incomplete, but the operator is listed as the “European Energy Association GmbH” from Austria.
According to some research, you may not receive a calculation, but your data will probably be collected. However, the imprint distances itself from such emails. What happens to them? We can only speculate about this, but for legal reasons we leave it alone.
From our previous experiences, we can also say that these emails should be treated with caution, because it is strange when you have to invent authorities and people in order to sell someone a heating system... if in the end that is what it is all about.
Notes:
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