Orange and Rockland Warns: Crooks Again Preying on Public in Bill Payment Fraud
June 20, 2019
June 20, 2019
PEARL RIVER, New York, June 20 -- Orange and Rockland Utilities issued the following news release:
O&R customers are being hounded by a new round of persistent predatory phone calls from crooks trying to steal O&R customers' money.
The scheme goes this way: Crooks posing as O&R employees call unsuspecting customers and threaten them with the immediate shut off of their electric service if they don't pay phony O&R bills with Green Dot or other prepaid deb . . .
O&R customers are being hounded by a new round of persistent predatory phone calls from crooks trying to steal O&R customers' money.
The scheme goes this way: Crooks posing as O&R employees call unsuspecting customers and threaten them with the immediate shut off of their electric service if they don't pay phony O&R bills with Green Dot or other prepaid deb . . .