I’m pretty sure I got this, but I haven’t lived in California for over a year.
I got a call from a fellow who said he was from Eversource, and my electricity would be cut off immediately if I don’t pay.
Unfortunately for him, I’m served by United Illuminating.
PG&E needs to develop an app to create a local power outage wherever Gov. Newsome happens to be at the moment.
With so many automated scam calls it has to be making people immune to them. I’ve had a few claiming to be raising money for the police. Since I don’t know if they are legit or not I still hang up.
I can't believe the phone companies (land & cell) haven't been able to stop that tech.
It's only been decades so maybe not enough time.
I've even been called by my own number before.
Fortunately I receive very few calls from people I don’t know. If Caller Id doesn’t show me who’s calling (means they’re not in my contacts file), I don’t answer the call. If it’s important, they can leave me a voice mail and I’ll call them back. As a result of this I receive very few spam calls.
Duke Energy customers were targeted by a simliar scam some time back.
I got a call saying ‘your bill is overdue and a crew is on their way to your home to turn off your power.’
I told the person my bill was paid and he said they couldn’t help me - (and here’s the brilliant part of the scam) — the man says, “we can’t help you - you need to call Duke Energy”...
Then he said, “DO YOU NEED THE PHONE NUMBER?”
Luckily I had the number and told him no I didn’t need the number. I call Duke and they explained the scam and said I was lucky I didn’t take the fake phone number from them. Lots of people feel for the scam because they were calling Duke...
I got this call some months ago.