{"id":14374,"date":"2022-12-10T15:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T22:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=14374"},"modified":"2022-12-10T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T22:33:59","slug":"rise-in-scams-in-the-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/rise-in-scams-in-the-bay-area\/","title":{"rendered":"PG&E Officials Warn of Rising Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rising
Photo: P360P<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Bay City News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PG&E officials reported an increase in consumer-reported scams in the Bay Area that have at least doubled in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted that the holiday season has seen a high volume of reports of scammers impersonating the utility and trying to take advantage of customers in PG&E's Northern and Central California service area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of reports increased from just over 11,000 in 2021 to more than 23,000 in 2022 through October alone. Utility officials anticipate that scammers will be even busier in December and January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The largest number of scams in the Bay Area have occurred in San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PG&E se\u00f1al\u00f3 que los n\u00fameros no capturan el alcance total de los intentos de estafa en general, ya que muchos no se denuncian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A su vez, la empresa proporcion\u00f3 algunos m\u00e9todos que los consumidores pueden usar para evitar ser estafados, incluida una lista de signos de una posible estafa:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Amenaza de desconexi\u00f3n: los estafadores pueden exigir agresivamente el pago inmediato de una supuesta factura vencida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Request for immediate payment: Scammers can direct the customer to buy a prepaid card and then call them back supposedly to pay a bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Solicitud de tarjeta prepagada: cuando el cliente vuelve a llamar, la persona que llama le pide al cliente el n\u00famero de la tarjeta prepagada, lo que le otorga al estafador acceso instant\u00e1neo a los fondos de la tarjeta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Ofertas de reembolso o rebaja: los estafadores pueden decir que su compa\u00f1\u00eda de servicios p\u00fablicos le factur\u00f3 en exceso y le debe un reembolso, o que usted tiene derecho a una rebaja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00abEvitar una estafa es tan simple como colgar el tel\u00e9fono\u00bb, refiri\u00f3 Aaron Johnson, vicepresidente regional de PG&E Bay Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los funcionarios de servicios p\u00fablicos dijeron que registrarse para obtener una cuenta en l\u00ednea en pge.com es otra protecci\u00f3n. Los clientes no solo pueden iniciar sesi\u00f3n para verificar su saldo e historial de pagos, sino que tambi\u00e9n pueden registrarse para recibir pagos recurrentes, facturaci\u00f3n electr\u00f3nica y alertas \u00fatiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be interested in: San Mateo County residents urged to register for new SMC alert system<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Por Bay City News Los funcionarios de PG&E informaron sobre un aumento de estafas en el \u00c1rea de la Bah\u00eda que han sido informadas por los consumidores y las cuales se han al menos duplicado en 2022. Se\u00f1al\u00f3 que la temporada navide\u00f1a ha tenido un gran volumen de informes de estafadores que se hacen pasar […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14375,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374\/revisions\/14375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}