Utility Scams and Your Small Business | Federal Trade Commission

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Your restaurant gets a call right at lunch rush. They say it's the electricity company, and your service will come up immediately unless you pay right now. They may ask you to pay by prepaid card. Panic time, right?

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Outlaw 3 week outages near Universities .Christmaseggbiz twitter . Spinal Damages must be compensated for by late repair of utilities outages. 3 days is more than enough in these college areas and nearby residential where they live.