{"id":272709,"date":"2013-08-07T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=272709"},"modified":"2013-08-08T12:59:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T17:59:12","slug":"customers-warned-of-electricity-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=272709","title":{"rendered":"Customers Warned of Electricity Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/08\/electric-meter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/08\/electric-meter1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"electric meter1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-272829\" \/><\/a>WOOD COUNTY \u2014 An electric company in Wood county is warning its customers to look out for scammers. KETK reports more and more scammers are scaring customers into coughing up their personal information. Wood county electric cooperative is one of the latest companies having to deal with this mess. WCEC Director of Communications Paige Eaton says, \u201cWe were notified by a couple of members who called us and wanted to know if we were actually requesting credit card information over the phone and if their bills were in jeopardy.\u201d <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Within the past week, WCEC members have been receiving phone calls from these scammers demanding their credit card information and threatening to turn off their electricity if they don\u2019t comply. Eaton says, \u201cThat\u2019s how we first learned about it\u2026through savvy members that called us to question the veracity of the calls they received.\u201d Eaton adds that other utility businesses in Texas and across the U.S. are also reporting the same type of scams. <\/p>\n<p>The Better Business Bureau\u2019s Kaylen Burgess says, \u201cScammers typically use scare tactics, and right now it\u2019s very hot, and nobody wants to have their electricity cut off, so that could be frightening to someone and make them want to give over their credit card.\u201d Burgess advises customers to try to keep records of the bills they\u2019ve paid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOOD COUNTY \u2014 An electric company in Wood county is warning its customers to look out for scammers. KETK reports more and more scammers are scaring customers into coughing up their personal information. Wood county electric cooperative is one of the latest companies having to deal with this mess. WCEC Director of Communications Paige Eaton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=272709\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Customers Warned of Electricity Scam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 02:49:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272709"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272929,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272709\/revisions\/272929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}