About 900 customers have reported scams to the utility so far this year.
Peco warned its 2.2 million customers on Tuesday that scammers have been "aggressively" targeting them since the company's system upgrades in February.Cheryl Hassler answered the call from an unknown number with a Philadelphia area code, concerned something may have happened to her elderly mother-in-law.“He said there was someone coming to shut my electricity off,” said Hassler, 50, of Coatesville.
to customers. “These scammers are contacting Peco customers and falsely claiming their electric or natural gas service will be disconnected unless payment is made immediately.”Hassler raced to the nearest Allpoint ATM, a fee-free interbank machine that the caller instructed she had to use make a payment of nearly $400, the approximate total of her past three months of electric bills.
She shoved the card back in her wallet, hit cancel on the screen, and hung up the phone. She called Peco, then the local police department to report the incident, which was especially jarring to Hassler as a past victim of identity theft.
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