Scammers have been targeting Midwest Energy customers, calling them and telling them that their electric or gas account is past due and service will be shut off within 30 minutes unless payment is made via a reloadable money card, or by credit or debit card.
Some customers have been cheated out of hundreds, or even thousands of dollars by these slick-talking scammers.
"They come across as very professional, and they might have the first two or three numbers of your account and manipulate the customer into giving them the remaining digits,” said Michael Sadeghi, Midwest Energy’s director of customer service. “They might get the customer to reveal information about their last payment amount, and then say something like the last amount didn’t clear or was rejected by the bank,” Sadeghi said.
