{"id":94267,"date":"2019-05-02T17:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/scam-text-messages-hitting-la-plata-electric-association-customers\/"},"modified":"2019-05-02T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:02:52","slug":"scam-text-messages-hitting-la-plata-electric-association-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/scam-text-messages-hitting-la-plata-electric-association-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam text messages hitting La Plata Electric Association customers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A news release issued Monday from the LPEA said the scam appears to be targeting cellphones via fraudulent text messages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always a new twist, and now they\u2019ve moved from land-line phones to cellphones,\u201d said Ron Meier, LPEA manager of engineering and member services, in the news release \u201cThey\u2019ve kicked their efforts up a notch because many people no longer have land lines. Threatening our members with electricity disconnection certainly is unsettling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond not making threatening phone calls to immediately disconnect anyone\u2019s electricity for lack of payment, Meier said LPEA never sends threatening text messages, and members should never enter a credit card number in response to any text that comes across their cellphone.<\/p>\n

When an account is past due, LPEA customers receive a series of written notices and are given adequate time to settle their bills before any disconnect would take place, according to the news release.<\/p>\n

If LPEA members receive a questionable phone call or text message on cellphones that demands immediate payment, they are asked to record a call-back\/text number from the presumed scam artist, then call LPEA directly to see if a true issue exists with their accounts.<\/p>\n

If a text is blatantly fraudulent, LPEA members are advised to call local law enforcement.<\/p>\n

LPEA\u2019s customer service representatives can be reached during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, at 247-5786 for clarification of any billing questions.<\/p>\n

LPEA members can also review the status of their account at any time online at www.lpea.coop<\/a> \u2013 click on the SmartHub icon.<\/p>\n

LPEA provides electricity to more than 30,000 members in La Plata and Archuleta counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

du1-i-syn A news release issued Monday from the LPEA said the scam appears to be targeting cellphones via fraudulent text messages. \u201cThere\u2019s always a new twist, and now they\u2019ve moved from land-line phones to cellphones,\u201d said Ron Meier, LPEA manager of engineering and member services, in the news release \u201cThey\u2019ve kicked their efforts up a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[1503,483],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-94267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-fraud","tag-la-plata-electric-association"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94267"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=94267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}