Worcester County Government (WCG) officials are warning the public not to speak with any caller pretending to be from WCG and demanding information and/or payment on a county water, sewer, or tax bill. The county has received a number of recent reports of scam attempts.
“WCG does not call anyone,” said Public Works Deputy Director John Ross, who oversees water and wastewater operations. “We do not maintain a list of users’ phone numbers, and we would never call a customer to discuss turning on or off their water. Like all other utilities, it’s just not something we would do over the phone.”
Be sure to report the fraudulent activity to the FTC or your local law enforcement agency.
The only scam is the one being pulled on the tax payers by their gov’t officials.
This is one of the stupidest statements ever made. I regularly get calls from someone claiming to be Delmarva Power telling me I have to make a payment within the hour or they will cut my power off. The State police tell me there’s nothing they can do about it even if I have the phone # they called from. Why would it be any different from a water utility?
Failure of the police to prosecute these crimes just promotes more criminal activity of this nature.