There's a new spin on the old utility scam, where con artists call customers and convince them that their power will be turned off immediately if they don't pay up.
It was a small problem with big consequences: All one elderly gentleman from Queens wanted was his newspaper delivered to his doorstep. Nina Pineda has more.
"I was so concerned about not having electricity and gas and that my store," she said."So I all I could think about is how can I pay the balance faster?" "The lady saw the transaction is going, processing," she said."He said, 'Well, let me check if I could stop it.'"
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