Uploaded August 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Today I finally was able to bait an electric bill scammer who was pretending to work for the power company Southern California Edison. Enjoy!
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The scam: Scammers pretending to be with a power company will call and say your account is past due and you need to pay them on the spot over the phone. It's a convincing scam as they usually use spoofed numbers and the actual recordings from the legitimate power company. Do not fall for this scam, and hang up if someone is harassing you into paying a bill on the spot.

More about the scam here: firstenergycorp.com/content/customer/help/safety/scam-info/known-scams.html#phone

First Outro Music: Bicycle - Reunited by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100870
Artist: incompetech.com

Outro song: 'Pisco Sour' - Gunnar Olsen - youtube.com/watch?v=MPTga-IW-Ws

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