New warnings about phone scammers pretending to be DTE Energy

DTE is joining the chorus of people warning about a scam that is striking their customers. In one case, a woman says she received a call from someone claiming to be a DTE representative. That caller threatened to cut off her electricity because she was behind on her payments.

[bhaktipatel]

Recently my business got scammed too by the same DTE workers on 4/9/2018. We have a busy local motel and all the rooms were occupied, the caller said her name is Casie Diaz or Joel and the number they used was 313-346-5054 and they scared my father so much that my father didn’t want to loose business or trouble the customers with no electricity so he got scammed and ended up paying 1, 488 dollars through money pak. He was told that the electricity will get cut off in half hour and will not come back for 92 hours. My father even went through all his bills and confirmed all the payments were up to date but but was scared to loose the power so paid the money only to learn that it was a big big scam. These people need to be caught soon and punished others should not get hurt. This happened just two days ago to us and we want to warn people. We filed a police complaint and even told DTE about this. It sounds so legit and the scammers threatened you badly