Scams targeting San Diego Gas & Electric customers are on the rise, the utility said Tuesday, with fraudsters posing as SDG&E representatives, threatening to shut off victims' power and demanding payments over the phone.
Scams targeting San Diego Gas & Electric customers are on the rise, the utility said Tuesday, with fraudsters posing as SDG&E representatives, threatening to shut off victims' power and demanding payments over the phone.The utility says it does not demand payments over the phone, though scammers will often warn callers of imminent power shutdowns if payments are not made immediately.
SDG&E says customers will be asked to pay via Bitcoin, Zelle, Green Dot debit cards, or other non-traditional forms of payment that it does not use. One local business targeted in this fashion lost more than $25,000, the utility said, as the victim was told to continually repeat a transaction that supposedly failed to go through multiple times.
"The scammers are persistent with their questions and threats," an SDG&E statement read."The scams vary in levels of sophistication including being passed off to other role players to give the perception the imposter is calling from a large organization."— SDG&E will never call to demand immediate payment made over the phone with the threat of immediate service disconnection.
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