Southern Pine EPA suspends e-payments due to phishing scams
by Associated Press Published: July 9,2012
Tags: cooperative, elecvtricity, elecvtronic payment, energy, identifity theft, phishing, power, scam, scheme, steal, stealing, thief, utility
TAYLORSVILLE — A rural electricity cooperative in Mississippi has stopped taking electronic checks because so many of its customers have been scammed by people or websites claiming to represent the utility. The Clarion-Ledger reports that Southern Pine Electric Power Association isn’t the only utility being impersonated by “phishing” scams. Attorney general’s spokeswoman Jan Schaefer says [...] [...]
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