Apparent power services scam

I have received four calls in the past two days from 1-000-000-0000 (so yeah, that's a big red flag).  On the fourth call I decided to find out what the scam was, so I answered.  The caller asked to speak to the person in the house "in charge of the electric bill", so I said that would be me.  They then went into a long speech about how my state now allows consumers to buy their power from sources other than the power company and how I could save money buy doing so.  But after a couple minutes or so I got bored and hung up.

Even ignoring the masked caller ID number, the telemarketer himself came across as really slimy (not that I would buy anything from a cold call anyway).  I don't know what the goal of the call really was...maybe to havee me switch my power supplier to some company that would seriously overcharge, maybe to get a credit card number, maybe to get my info for identify theft. Maybe all three.  Anyone know the details of the scam?

Hi Annoyed,

Here are a few threads that might give you an idea about what the callers are after:

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-508-449-3167
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-585-359-3088
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-623-238-6289
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-203-663-2848 <- read reply by "guess what"
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-769-3799
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-727-483-9413
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-607-216-4356