I have heard of other types doing this, more or less using religion as a key into entering your home, a complete scamA confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; and really evil. I don't let anyone in my house unless I know them, period. Its the only safe thing you can do anymore.

I would never let a stranger cross the threshold of my house. In fact, I won't open the door to most people unless I see an ID badge from them through the crack in the door with the security chain on. Anything else is just an invitation to theft.

I am cautious about people who say they are from a company doing survey on appliances.If I am convinced he is an employee , I offer him the information about the appliance if we are using it. If that's not how it happens , then I'd rather invite the company for a demo than to have complete strangers surprise me.

The only strangers I let into my home have badges that check out when I call the local police department. Anyone else can stand on the porch, its big enough to have a party anyway and I don't need a strip of my carpet cleaned. Letting someone in to survey you is just silly and asking for trouble.

I never let strangers enter into my house. I talk to them on the gate or with our screen door closed. I also adviced my house helper not to entertain visitors. Even if they will claimed that they are a friend or a relative of ours.

I'd rather call the appliance company that they are representing before even letting them in. Some of these surveyors are true and they are doing their jobs. Sometimes they need to accumulate a number of surveys in order to get paid for their work. But they have to stay outside my house until I have called the appliance company first.

I never let strangers in even when they ask. One girl came by to demonstrate a vacuum cleaner and essentially shouldered by me and walked into my living room. I asked her politely to follow me back outside and she obliged. She probably wasn't up to anything but just the same you have to be careful. Maybe I'm paranoid but I always talk to strangers (especially solicitors) right in the door frame or close the door behind me and talk to them on the porch.