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The Better Business Bureau shares how to stay safe from scammers who impersonate electric, water or gas company representatives.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
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After a spike in reports, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is warning of scammers attempting to extort people over email by threatening to release their ...
Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money. Here the victims will also be required to pay substantial small amounts of money in order to have the winning money ...
Between June 2015 and July 2017, there were approximately $1 million in total losses reported by Duke Energy customers among 15,000 scam reports. [1] According to Hiya, a company that makes caller blocking software, "We've seen triple digit growth in utility scams in the past year [2016-2017]." [6]
Focus on Energy was formed in 2001 as Wisconsin's statewide energy efficiency and renewable resource initiative. The program's goals are to work with eligible Wisconsin residents and businesses to help them manage rising energy costs, promote in-state economic development, protect the environment and control the state's growing demand for electricity and natural gas.
Receiving a call, email or letter from a company purporting to be a debt collector can spark alarm. Before disclosing any information, look for these eight signs of a fake debt collection scam. 1.