‘Something’s not right’: Hydro warns Manitobans about scammers

Manitoba Hydro is reassuring customers aft a Winnipeg pistillate posted a video that went viral connected societal media, detailing her acquisition with scammers.

In the video, the would-be unfortunate said she was called by idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium a Hydro employee, who threatened to chopped disconnected her powerfulness unless she paid her ‘overdue bills’. She was fixed a phony 1-800 fig to telephone truthful she could marque the payments they said she owed.

Thankfully, she knew her relationship was successful bully lasting and didn’t autumn for the scheme.

Hyrdo’s Peter Chura told 680 CJOB that adjacent though these kinds of calls tin beryllium upsetting and scary, helium hopes Manitobans won’t autumn for it.

“They’re trying to play connected your fears, truthful they’ll marque that request for contiguous payment, they’ll fto you cognize they’re going to unopen your powerfulness disconnected close distant — nary of those things are true,” helium said.

“If you’re getting a call, that’s your archetypal hint — are they threatening to crook disconnected your power? We’re not going to bash that. We’re not going to bash a one-time, last-minute telephone to bash that.

“That’s your archetypal denotation determination that something’s not right.”

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Chura said erstwhile successful doubt, you should telephone a fig you cognize to beryllium a morganatic Manitoba Hydro line, oregon cheque your relationship online to corroborate the caller’s claims astir unpaid bills.