South Carolina Attorney General Seeks Investigation of Phone Scam
Posted on Oct 16, 2013 in Legislative & Politics | Comments Off on South Carolina Attorney General Seeks Investigation of Phone Scam
South Carolina’s Attorney General has requested that the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigate a state-wide phone scam targeting utility customers. Utility consumers around the state have been receiving calls from phone scammers who pose as electric cooperative employees and threaten disconnection of service if the customers do not make immediate payments. The scammers then instruct customers to purchase prepaid debit cards to pay the “bill”. The chief targets of the scams have been South Carolina’s Hispanic communities and small business owners. Read more about this story here.
