Potential Scam - Water Testing

POTENTIAL SCAM ALERT:

The District of Kent has been contacted by several residents who have been approached at their homes by individuals offering to test their water. PLEASE NOTE: District employees DO NOT go to individual homes/properties to test water. The people knocking on local doors work for a private company. You can easily identify District employees by simply asking to see their municipal identification cards.

Please visit https://www.consumerprotectionbc.ca/category/door-to-door-sales/ for more information on door-to-door sales, including tips on how to say no, what your cancellation rights are, and how to spot bad operators.

To see a previous example of a water testing scam in Canada, you can read this CBC article from 2018:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/water-testing-scam-london-1.4952895