BGE Outlines Common Holiday Season Utility Scams To Be Aware Of

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — As the vacation play approaches, BGE is sounding the alarm to punctual customers of communal scams that hap yearly astir this time.

These scams often travel successful the signifier of telemarketing imposters looking to bargain idiosyncratic accusation and money.

For International Fraud Awareness Week, BGE is taking the accidental to inquire individuals to “End the call. End the scam”.

Since January, BGE has received implicit 7,00 complaints of users being asked to wage instantly oregon endure disconnection. These high-pressure income tactics are commonly utilized to bargain people’s wealth oregon adjacent identities.

“Utilities United Against Scams time continues to beryllium a precise important accidental for BGE to scope retired to punctual our customers to enactment vigilant due to the fact that these scammers are perpetually changing their tactics,” said Chima Chijioke, BGE Vice President of Customer Operations. “It is truthful disappointing that these scammers proceed to usage this clip of wellness and fiscal uncertainty to effort to deceive our customers.”

In summation to spreading awareness, BGE besides released tips and reddish flags to debar falling unfortunate to these societal engineering attacks.

The tips chiefly absorption connected things a existent BGE typical volition ne'er bash implicit the phone. Some of these things see asking to acquisition a prepaid debit paper oregon springiness your societal information number, threatening to disconnect users successful an hour’s time, oregon offering discounts and rebates implicit the phone.

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BGE concludes by reminding customers to spot their gut instinct. “Customers shouldn’t beryllium fooled by outgo unit tactics,” said BGE Security Manager Todd Powell. “Almost each of the victims we’ve heard from accidental the urgency of the telephone kept them from trusting their instincts. These types of forceful calls are ne'er legitimate, and customers should disengage immediately.”